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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Who Was Your First Five on Twitter?
Ever wonder who were the first people to follow you on Twitter? An easy way to find out is firstfivefollowers.com. All you need to do is log in using your Twitter username and password, and firstfivefollowers displays the first five people who jumped on your Twitter bandwagon. Here’s my gang of five. You can click [...]
Paper.li Catches the Twitter Wave
In April, I did a post on Paper.li, a free online service that presents your live stream as an online newspaper based on what your friends are tweeting about. It’s a simple, interesting and different way for people who want another way to present and consume Twitter. Over the past six months, Paper.li has seen [...]
OMG, It’s the New Twitter!
The blogosphere and TwitterSphere are agog this evening amid news that Twitter is poised to roll out a new and better Twitter.com with, wait for it, two panes that will make it easier for users to consume content, including videos and photos. While it’s not quite the multi-column world of TweetDeck, Seesmic and HootSuite, it [...]
There’s Nothing Wrong With Scheduling Tweets
There seems to be a debate raging about whether scheduling tweets is a bad thing. After all, Twitter is a real-time service so the idea of scheduling tweets may strike some people as going against the grain. My take is scheduling tweets is perfectly fine as long as the tweets provide some kind of value, [...]
The Myth of Twitter.com’s Popularity
According to Twitter, Twitter.com is the most popular application within the TwitterSphere with 78% of all Twitter users visiting it in the past month. My initial take was this is a major surprise given a lot of other surveys, including one by Sysomos (a client) suggest that Twitter.com’s market share among places to read and [...]
Look At Someone Else’s Live Stream