Category Archives: Twitter

Are Twitter Conversations Dying?

September 4, 2008 – 10:59 pm

Over the last month or two I’ve noticed a sharp decline in the amount of conversation occurring on Twitter.
People are still using the service, for sure (witness the number of tweets about McCain’s “ground noise and static” comment, in reference to protesters at the Republican Convention, within seconds of the comment for proof). However, [...]

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Twitter Becoming A Source, Not Just News

August 19, 2008 – 10:47 pm

Is Twitter moving beyond being a news story and towards becoming a credible source for them?
Not too long ago I got excited whenever I saw Twitter mentioned as the subject of a news article. Recently, though, I’ve noticed an increasing number of mainstream news articles using Twitter as a source rather than a subject.
The [...]

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The Rise and Fall of Twitter

August 10, 2008 – 8:57 pm

A light-hearted moment amid the seriousness: this video, posted on TechCrunch, is a wonderful parody of Twitter’s reliability problems.

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Four Lessons From Twitter’s Spam/Customer-Busting Episode

August 4, 2008 – 11:04 pm

Four lessons that companies can learn from Twitter’s latest customer-service episode

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Twitter To Finally Find A Business Model?

April 15, 2008 – 9:23 am

Is Twitter close to finally introducing something resembling a business model? The blogosphere is buzzing today with talk of Twitter adding ads to its posts.

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Twitter Clouds - What Do You Write About?

April 14, 2008 – 9:49 pm

What do you write about?
Tweet Clouds, an created by John Krutsch and Jared Stein, lets you answer that question.
The tool creates a “tag cloud” - a visual representation of what you write about - for your Twitter posts. More common words are displayed in a larger font, so it’s easy to see your [...]

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Expand Your Twitter Network With Two New Services

April 9, 2008 – 10:16 pm

Finding interesting people to follow is one of the biggest challenges for new Twitter users. It really helps to have people there whenever you log on, to answer questions, solve problems and generally communicate with. Without a community to participate in, posting to Twitter can be like a tree falling in a forest.
Two tools came [...]

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Scoble’s Dead Wrong About Twitter

March 27, 2008 – 11:05 pm

Robert Scoble wrote a post a few days ago saying that the secret to Twitter is following a lot of people:
I’ve gone through stages with Twitter. At some point I thought it was important to get lots of followers. But lately I’ve been telling people that the secret to Twitter isn’t how many followers you [...]

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Why SocialThing Trumps FriendFeed… And The Rest

March 21, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Lately, I’ve noticed a growth in aggregation tools. For me, SocialThing leads the way.

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Another Killer Twitter App?

March 19, 2008 – 5:30 pm

This post is a little out of the ordinary for me. I’m floating an idea to see if it would work or not. I often do this via Twitter, but this one’s a little more than 140 characters.
Twitter Organizer
Dave Jones posted a note on Twitter the other day that sparked a few thoughts for me.
Dave [...]

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