Monthly Archives: May 2010

What’s Twitter Say About Your Personality?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 12, 2010
What’s your Twitter personality? Are you upbeat, arrogant, worried, angry, depressed? AnalyzeWords is an easy-to-use tool that reveal your personality by looking at the words you use within tweets. Apparently, it is based on “good scientific research”. Here’s my personality breakdown based on my tweets.
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Welcome to Twitter, Mr. Chavez

By Mark Evans | Published: May 11, 2010
As some celebrities walk away from Twitter, it’s good to see politicians stepping up to the plate. A newly-minted member of the Twitterrati is Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who already has nearly 260,000 followers, making him the most popular Venezuelan on Twitter. According to Associated Press, Chavez joined Twitter last month as a way to deal with [...]
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@markevans is Alive and Well

By Mark Evans | Published: May 7, 2010
A few days, I did something really dumb. In trying to create a new Twitter account for a client, I accidentally deactivated @markevans. It was one of those moment when, like Homer Simpson, all you can do is say “Doh!” According to Twitter, reactivating your Twitter account isn’t possible, although you think that it would [...]
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Twitter to Launch Embeddable Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: May 4, 2010
As tweets are increasingly cited and quoted, it makes complete sense that Twitter is introducing a new tool that will make it easy to embed a tweet into a Web site or blog post – much like a YouTube video or Google Map or can be embedded. It’s a smart move because it will give [...]
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The Perils of Deactivization

By Mark Evans | Published: May 3, 2010
Last night, I left Twitter. It wasn’t by designed but in trying set up a new Twitter account for a client, I accidentally de-activated @markevans. Believe me, it a sad story. In the process, I have discovered that clicking on this button, there’s apparently no going back. According to Twitter, once an account has been [...]
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