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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Sharing Documents on Twitter
Twitter is a terrific platform to share ideas and links to content but it’s also emerging as a way to share other things such as documents. TwitDoc, for example, lets you share a document (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, etc.) or photo on Twitter. Using TwitDoc is a snap. After providing your Twitter username and password, [...]
Is There Value in the ReTweet?
If you like something on Twitter that you want to share with your followers, one of the easiest tools is the ReTweet (aka RT). By ReTweeting, you’re passing along comments, quotes and links that you believe other people will find interesting. The question is whether there’s value in the ReTweet, or whether it’s just lazy [...]
Twitterific Gets Back in the iPhone Game
One of the most competitive and vibrant markets within the iPhone ecosystem involves Twitter. There’s plenty of great applications available, which makes it a snap and a joy to be mobile with Twitter. The leading contenders include Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twinkle. Lost in the shuffle was Twitterrific, which not that long ago was the iPhone [...]
Pruning Your Twitter Followers
If you’ve been on Twitter for awhile, one of the occupational hazards is building up a lengthy list of people who you follow. Some people are friends/colleagues, some are interesting and some good resources. As well, you may be following people that don’t fall into any of those camps. Somehow along the way, you’ve added [...]
Twitter Getting Serious About Search
Twitter’s growing focus on search, which makes complete sense strategically, is taking another important step with plans to start crawling links contained within updates. This will offer even more insight into what’s happening on the Web in real-time, and, arguably, make Twitter an increasingly interesting search player. Santhose Jayaram, who recently joined Twitter from Google, [...]
Jakob Nielsen on Twitter