Author Archives: Mark Evans

Twitter on the iPad: Sweetness

By Mark Evans | Published: September 2, 2010
So far, I have resisted getting an Apple iPad, mostly because it has been difficult to justify when you already own a MacBook and MacBook Pro. But in the search for excuses to buy an iPad, Twitter may have come up something that makes an iPad purchase irresistible. Twitter has just rolled out a new application [...]
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Five Ways to Stay Excited About Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 31, 2010
Like anything that gets used a lot, Twitter can start to lose its appeal or freshness. Even the most ardent user can experience times when Twitter isn’t as interesting. So, how do you continue to keep Twitter appealing? Here are some tips: 1. Don’t overuse it. There is too much of a good thing, including Twitter. [...]
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Who Are Your Twitter BFFs?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 30, 2010
Who are your BFFs (aka best friends forever) on Twitter? Who are the people who you interact with the most? One way to find out is Twitter BFFs, a service that calculates your BFFs based on the number of times you @/reply them in your tweets. To use Twitter BFFs, you provide it with authorization to [...]
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A Flowchart to Following People on Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 27, 2010
John Antonios created a cool flow chart about the process by which he determines who to follow on Twitter. I’ve never really thought about the process of following people; it’s always been more of an intuitive kind of thing but looking at John’s chart does a great job of showing the different hurdles that someone needs [...]
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You Can Be Stalked On Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 25, 2010
It never ceases to amaze me how much personal information people voluntarily disclose on Twitter. They talk about their jobs, health, children, spouses, interests, hobbies, when and where they’re going out or on vacation, and where they live. The thing that most people don’t realize or blissfully ignore is all of this information is public. Anyone [...]
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Tweet Peck: A Global View of Twitter and Google

By Mark Evans | Published: August 23, 2010
Twitter and Google do an amazing job of telling people what’s happening so you might be interested in Tweet Peck, which combines Twitter and Google to provide a snapshot of what’s going on in a particular city. To use TweetPeck, you provide the name of a city – in this case Toronto. TweetPeck shows the weather [...]
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