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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Twazzup Pushes the Twitter Search Envelope
In an ideal world, Twitter should be dominating the Twitter search market. Given search has huge potential as a way to gain insight into what people are doing on Twitter, and as a way to generate revenue, Twitter should have the best, most valuable/useful search engine. In fairness, Twitter search (which was acquired with the [...]
Why Twitter has Rocked the House
A blog post by Rob Diana about why “We Were So Wrong About Twitter” got me thinking about how far Twitter has come in such a short period of time. Twitter’s success and how it’s been embraced by the geeks, celebrities and everyone inbetween has quickly made people forget that a year or so ago, [...]
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Cool Tool to Add, Subtract Followers
Once in awhile, it’s difficult not to get a little tired with who you’re following on Twitter – call it Follow Fatigue People who you thought were interesting are, instead, telling you about their latest Starbucks experience, or recounting yet another isn’t-my-child-just-so-cute story. So with Spring just around the corner, now is probably a good [...]
Biz & Ev in the WSJ
From the outside looking in, one of the most impressive parts of Twitter is how Biz Stone and Evan Williams play so nice with the media. The media wants to cover Twitter, and Stone and Williams are happy to play their parts. Here’s another nice piece of coverage in the Wall St. Journal.
Nambu: Promising But Very Beta
There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently about the launch of Nambu, desktop, AIR-powered software for Mac OS X that, for now, lets you handle multiple Twitter and Identi.ca accounts (Friendfeed and Ping.fm are coming soon). As someone who’s constantly looking for new ways to use Twitter, I downloaded Nambu with high expectations. After [...]
Who Still Uses Twitter?