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Monthly Archives: June 2010
What Makes Someone Follow You?
When someone new follows me, I get an e-mail from Topify that includes the person’s bio, the number of people they follow/number of followers, their location and their last five tweets. Although I don’t follow a lot of people back, this information is always interesting, mostly because it is intriguing about why these people are [...]
Different Twitter Tools for Different Tasks
As an enthusiastic user of Twitter for professional and personal reasons, I use a variety of tools to take care of all my needs. Here’s a breakdown of my Twitter “tool box”: - TweetDeck is my go-to tool due to the ability to create and review a wide variety of columns to track people I [...]
Posted in Services, Twitter Tagged hootsuite, seesmic, social media, sysomos, tweetdeck, Twitter 3 Comments
Who’s Tweeting in Your Backyard?
There are plenty of tools to search Twitter. But what about people using Twitter in your city, state or country? ChirpCity is a easy-to-use service to find people using Twitter in your backyard, as well as people who are tweeting about your what’s happening in your backyard. ChirpCity doesn’t have a lot of bells and [...]
How Did Twitter Misjudge the World Cup?
Surprise, surprise: Twitter has been savaged by the World Cup. In a blog post, Twitter concedes that it has: “experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors due to one of our internal sub-networks being over-capacity.” In other words, there has been a spike in traffic that Twitter has been [...]
Will The World Cup Kill Twitter?
Update: As Twitterrati expected, Twitter is suffering from a bad case of World Cup overdose and “experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors”. With the World Cup kicking off today, there is growing speculation that Twitter will be enthusiastically used by people around the world to talk about the [...]
A Multi-Coloured Approach to Twitter