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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Twitter’s New Follower Tool Still Bad
I received a notification from Twitter about a new follower earlier this week. It was interesting for a couple of reasons: 1. It was the first new follower notification from Twitter in months, even though I’ve been steadily adding new followers. 2. It offers little value-add other than letting me know about a new follower. [...]
Twitter: A Dictionary Definition
You know something has really made it when dictionaries start to add it. Case in point is Twitter, which will be listed in the 30th edition of the Collins English Dictionary. Twitter is defined as both a noun – “a website where people can post short messages about their current activities” and a verb – [...]
Twitter’s Dearth of Deals
Twitter has plenty of venture capital in the bank – enough from the outside looking in to let it operate for a couple of years without having to worry about generating a dime of revenue. Meanwhile, the Twitter ecosystem continues to grow and evolve as third-party developers create new and interesting services using Twitter’s API. [...]
commoncraft on Twitter Search
By far, commoncraft makes the best videos when it comes to explaining how things work on the Web. Here’s a great video explaining search on Twitter:
25 Members of the 1M Follower Club
When you’ve only got a few hundred or a few thousand followers on Twitter, the idea of having a million followers is somewhat surreal. Why would more than a million people want to follow a particular person, including Ashton Krutcher, who’s more famous for being married to Demi Moore than as an actor? According to [...]
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato