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How Twitter Has Changed the World Cup

Sunday, June 20, 2010

One thing that is different this World Cup season compared to 4 years ago, is the popularity of Twitter today has changed the way people communicate about the matches. Twitter actually started out in March 2006, the same year as the last WC, but the service hadn’t reached any real popularity worldwide yet. Now what [...]

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Friend or Follow: Who Really Cares About You?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Friend Or Follow is a nice little web app that lets you check who you’re following but aren’t following you back, something I’ve been eager to have for a while. Why would you want this? Well, if you thought certain people were reading your tweets but it turns out they weren’t then you may have [...]

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Poll: Do You Ever Get Frustrated By Twitter?

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Based on a conversation I was having last night some friends about Twitter and what frustrated us about it, I decided it could be interesting poll other Twitterini’s opinions on their frustration levels and reasons for that feeling. Even if you are a heavy user and lover of the service, there may be some areas [...]

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Poll: Who Do You Prefer to Twitter With?

Friday, January 2, 2009

I’d like to get a better understanding of who people choose to twitter with. Feel free to choose as many answers below that you think apply to you. If you have any further comments about who you prefer to twitter with, feel free to leave a comment. Thanks!

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Second Life Art for Crazy Twitter Backgrounds – Part 2

Monday, December 29, 2008

I’m not much a twitterer yet but I’ve been making art in Second Life for a long time and have quite a collection of images of my art that I want to share with my new tweeting friends. So here we have Part 2 for folks to grab the background images of their choice to [...]

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Second Life Art for Crazy Twitter Backgrounds

Saturday, December 27, 2008

In my spare time I create virtual art in Second Life. I recently completed a piece called Neon Graffiti Party which you can see in this video. I’m posting a few captures for twitter folks to use as background images for their twitter page. Click images to enlarge and download to your desktop. Merry Xmas! [...]

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Japanese prefer intimate social media

Friday, December 26, 2008

I think the intimate nature of Japanese Twitterers is very telling. It reminds me of how people blog in Japan with lots of personal content around their daily lives, what they ate or bought today, etc. The everyday-ness of Japanese social media/CGM is what makes Twitter a good fit. That and it’s a very simple [...]

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Michael Arrington’s Intervention of Robert Scoble

Thursday, December 25, 2008

I somehow was at the right at the right time to witness something interesting today. It seems a little social media drama occurred between Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble where Mike decided that the Scobleizer’s decision to focus on spreading news via Twitter and Friendfeed rather than his blog was a bad use of [...]

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