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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Create Groups in a Flash
With all the great services being developed to enhance, expand and bolster Twitter, it’s puzzling that there haven’t been more coming from Canada given our enthusiasm for social networks and Twitter. Toronto, for example, ranks among the top-10 cities in the world in terms of Twitter usage. It’s encouraging, however, to see a new Twitter [...]
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The Guide to Following Fewer People
For many people, following a lot of people on Twitter is akin to collecting baseball cards – the more you have, the better you’re doing. This explains why many people are following thousands of people even though the value of following so many people is, at best, dubious. I fall into the camp of following [...]
The Dangers of a Twitter Tsunami
Over the past few months, the Twitter bandwagon has been getting increasingly crowded. This has caused an exponential amount of noise – good and bad – within the Twittersphere, and a growing amount of chatter about Twitter. While more “noise” can be expected, what I find particularly interesting is Twitter’s popularity is already causing a [...]
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From Twitter To Where?
Heather Hopkins, an analyst with HitWise, has an interesting blog posting looking at the Web sites that people visit from Twitter.com. Her research shows that a lot of Twitter’s downstream traffic goes to social networks and entertainment sites, and that there’s a lot of content being shared on Twitter. If you look at the chart, [...]
Twitter: Kill the Suggested Users Page
One of Twitter’s shortcomings is how difficult it can be to find good – and I use “good” loosely depending on your interests – to follow, although there are growing number of third-party services such as Mr. Tweet working making it easier. Twitter’s response to the problem is something called the Suggested Users Page that [...]
Trouble with Twitter