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Entries Tagged ‘twitter’

Announcing Twitemperature: Find out how relevant your Tweets are right now.

I just wanted to take a moment to announce a little weekend project of mine and Ryan’s: Twitemperature. I got the idea last week while watching all the storm of activity around Twitterank (don’t worry; we won’t ask for your password), I registered the domain, I pinged Ryan with my ideas of how it would [...]

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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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Little Known Fact

What do you think this guy’s story is?
I think his mouth is open in awe after hearing that McCain chose Sarah Palin (*) as his running mate. More baffled reactions here…
Actually, after looking at the drawing some more, it looks like he’s offering up a disinterested yawn, which very much mirrors my own reaction to [...]

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Add FriendFeed to Your Mahalo Profile

You can now add FriendFeed to Your Mahalo Profile. What’s FriendFeed (*), you ask? It’s the place to have meaningful online conversations.
Begin side rant: The place to have meaningful online conversations used to be Twitter (*), but since Twitter is never up anymore and doesn’t have threaded comments, the discussion is starting to die [...]

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5 things to do on Twitter

Valleywag had a ridiculous post called 10 Things Twitter Users Should Not Do that ended up popping up several times today on the NewsGang feeds, which I read regularly. All of the post’s advice is horribly, horribly wrong. There is no should not do.
Here’s what you should do and why:
1. Follow as many people [...]

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AOL 2.0

Doc Searls said something interesting in this post about Twitter and Facebook:

I’m sure there’s something on Facebook that does the same thing. But Facebook is AOL 2.0. It’s heavy and complicated and wants to run my life. So I mostly avoid it. My loss perhaps, but that’s beside the twin points of live vs. static [...]

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