Monthly Archives: May 2009

Tracking Your Time on Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: May 25, 2009
TwiTip is running a poll about how much time people spend on Twitter. It got me thinking about the need for a service that can track your daily Twitter usage. The trick would be being able to tell when you were actually looking at Twitter.com, TweetDeck, Seesmic, et al as opposed to how long you [...]
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It’s a Conference-Palooza

By Mark Evans | Published: May 24, 2009
As Twitterrati noted a month ago and TechCrunch shines the spotlight on, the number of Twitter conferences continues to grow by leaps and bounds. If Twitter continues to establish itself as a major communications platform, there’s a huge opportunity for someone to become the conference – much like Jeff Pulver did for VoIP and Tim [...]
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A Better Way to do Follow Friday?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 22, 2009
If not already aware of FollowFriday, it a day – Friday – in which you put the spotlight on some of the people you follow to thank them. It was apparently invited by Micah Baldwin (aka @micah). It has become a major event with a growing number of people jumping on the bandwagon. It’s not [...]
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Twitter Cracking Open the Ad Door?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 21, 2009
Biz Stone has an intriguing post about how Twitter has no interest in running banner ads BUT it is not “philosophically opposed to any and all advertising”. So how does one interpret this missive? After being adamantly opposed to advertising, the question is whether Stone is cracking open the door as long as its innovative. [...]
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Deleted But Not Digitally Dead

By Mark Evans | Published: May 20, 2009
Have you ever wanted to recover a Twitter update that’s been deleted – whether it’s something you’ve posted or done by someone else? If so, Tweleted has a service to find deleted updates. In terms of usefulness, Tweleted’s sweet spot is probably those heated conversations in which people go back and forth – only to [...]
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Share Your Photos With yfrog

By Mark Evans | Published: May 19, 2009
Sharing your photos on Twitter is becoming one of the platform’s most used and interesting services with TwitPic emerging as one of the leading players. Another photo-sharing service that warrants some attention is yfrog, which offers a simple and user-friendly interface to share photos on your computer or a photo using a URL. To share [...]
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