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Hashtags can be handy. Hashtags can be good. But in my first trip to the SXSW conference, ironically, I’m getting a first-hand view of when hashtags can go totally wrong. Someone decided it would be a great idea for every session to have a hashtag. OK, I get that. It makes it easy to see a [...]
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In some of my posts, I have mentioned The fact I like using Twhirl This little post is more to the point Scroll down and lend me your eyes I like Twhirl. It makes me a jolly good fellow I like Twhirl. It’s small and light and makes me feel mellow (Makes him feel mellow) Seesmic Desktop’s too big, Tweetdeck had too [...]
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As the Orange County Angels of Los Angeles in Anaheim continue into the playoffs, I’ve found myself not only watching baseball on TV for the first time but also tweeting updates. Meanwhile, as some football teams I don’t know about play against each other in games I don’t care about, I find myself yawning when [...]
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Yes, the Google Wave invites are going out. All logged in? Now it’s time to start tweeting from Google Wave. Here’s how. The only Twitter client I know of is called Tweety the Twitbot. Today, I’ve also seen it called Twave, though the application itself still doesn’t seem to use that name. I used Tweety in the [...]
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I was amazed to see in my Twitter stream that the California Supreme Court had overturned Proposition 8 and quickly retweeted the news. Only it wasn’t so. The story everyone’s been pointing at is from almost a year ago. So what caused that to rise to attention in Twitter? The date on the story is pretty [...]
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Twitter, which recently made it so that you would automatically see anyone who @replied to you regardless of where they put your name in a message, changed things dramatically in the opposite direction. Now you probably won’t see some messages from people you follow if they are @replies to people you do not follow. That’s [...]
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I’ve been bemused watching Facebook over the past few months try to get some of the Twitter mojo by focusing more on “status updates.” I tend to be with John Battelle that “Twitter is a pencil.” IE — Twitter works because it does one thing well. Facebook is complicated — it’s Photoshop, as John put [...]
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Ingrid Michaelson is one of my favorite artists, always an amusing Twitterer and now the first major musician I know of to write a song about Twitter. Apparently she’s doing some studio work and twittered that she’d done a song: im made a song about twitter for you all. going crazy in the studio.
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I’m not the first to talk about the problem with knowing whether a “real person” is behind an account on Twitter. I’m probably not the first to suggest this solution, either. But I’ll add another voice to hoping Twitter makes account verification possible. It would help. I was struck when reading the blog of LeVar Burton [...]
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It’s confession time. I’m a Twitter dealer, a pusher — a guy who wants to hook you on the Big T, as it’s known on the street. Need some Tweet? I think you do. I’ve corrupted two notable people and just scored a third this week. Got him hooked not two minutes [...]
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