Author Archives: Mark Evans

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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Twifficiency: Interesting But Flawed

By Mark Evans | Published: August 18, 2010
There’s been some healthy buzz this week about Twifficiency with many Twitter users checking to measure their presence and activity – something that goes hand in hand with their obsession with the number of followers. According to Twifficiency “calculates your twitter efficiency based upon your twitter activity. This includes how many people you follow, how many [...]
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Manage Your Twitter Connections

By Mark Evans | Published: August 18, 2010
If you’re really into Twitter, you have probably signed up for a lot of different services along the way. This mean providing authorization through Twitter’s OAuth system. Once in awhile, it’s a good idea to take a look at all your connections to third-party services. To do so, go to your account, and click on “Connections”. It [...]
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Why Tweetdeck Rules the Rule

By Mark Evans | Published: August 17, 2010
When it comes to tools for using Twitter, I’ve pretty used them all in search of the Holy Tweeting Grail. At the end the day, however, I always come to back to TweetDeck. It’s the service that I use to benchmark potential alternatives. And while there are some viable contenders such as Seesmic, HootSuite and [...]
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