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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Twitter: Help Wanted
Twitter’s on a hiring binge – the sort of thing you tend to do after raising a whack of venture capital. To get the word out, Twitter created a pretty cool video. Here’s where you can apply for a job. One question: I wonder when Twitter will create a video showing us how it plans [...]
100 Twitter Friends at a Glance
The efforts to provide Twitter users with new and better ways to see the tweets of their friends is a never-ending battle with lots of companies working away at coming up with a better mousetrap. In the different camp is Twitter100, which shows the tweets of 100 followers at the same time. Rather than being [...]
A Look at Twitter’s “Suggestions for You”
After reading about Twitter’s new “Suggestions for You” tool, I finally got a chance to see it in action – for those of you who haven’t heard of it, “Suggestions for You” provides a list of people who you might want to follow using an algorithm that explores your existing friends. In typical Twitter fashion, [...]
Combine Google and Twitter Searches
As Twitter’s status as a search engine powerhouse continues to gain momentum, search has emerged as one of the more fascinating part of the Twitter ecosystem with dozens of start-ups such as Twazzup, Topsy and Scoopler scrambling for a foothold. A search engine looking to get a piece of the action is Tweetaboogle, which combines [...]
Blast Off to Follow Lots of New People
One of the challenges in using Twitter is finding interesting and/or relevant people to follow. It can be a time-consuming process, depending on how many people you’re looking to follow. An interesting tool to follow lots of people quickly is BlastFollow, which bills itself as a service to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse”. [...]
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