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Twitter vs Facebook: Differing audiences and convergence

Over the past two or three months, it seems that everyone I know from high school and college have discovered Facebook. I’m getting multiple friend requests per day. Actually, when I think about Facebook, it seems to work reverse-chronologically in terms of adoption. I first joined Facebook when they opened up to everyone and my [...]

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Twitter Staging

I just tried to go to Twitter to update everyone on how much my parrot Sonja was freaking out just now, when I encountered this error:
Then when I click cancel, I get this error:

Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., [...]

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FrrriendFeed Talk Like a Pirate Day Fun

In case you missed the news, both Twitter and FriendFeed rolled out new page designs yesterday (how’s that for synchronicity?). In any case, today, FriendFeed already changed their new design slightly for Talk Like A Pirate Day:
 
Avast! Ye can follow me down the plank here on Twitter and here on FriendFeed.
Also, if you like gadgets [...]

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As you may or may not have noticed…

…I turned off the incessant Twitter daily update posts on this blog. If you miss them, you can still see what I’m twittering in the bottom of the right-hand column, or over here (if it’s up).

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What’s up with Twitter?

Very odd new look…

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Do some small kindness for a stranger Twitter meme…

I started a meme on Twitter yesterday. Here’s how you can participate:
1. Do something kind for a stranger.
2. Twitter about it.
If you want, befriend me on Twitter so that I can friend you back and keep track or if I twitter too much for your taste, feel free to honk your participation horn in the [...]

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