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17 Dec 08

Mr. Tweet Recommends Friends to Follow - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Luckily for Twitterers, there’s Mr. Tweet, a free recommendation service that analyzes your current network to suggest new friends and members whose feeds may be of interest. Like the Shorty Awards and many other third-party applications that make use of Twitter’s platform, the company has no official ties to San Francisco-based Twitter, which allows people to post messages up to 140 characters in
09 Nov 08

Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com

  • Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system.

How to Improve Your Twinfluence and Twitter Grade

  • Tools that give an indication of the “influence” of a particular user are of use not only for users seeking authoritative users to follow, but for professional users seeking key “influencers” to work with.
  • The two systems agree on the first factor being measured. Twinfluence’s measure of Reach is the same as Grader’s first two factors - the number of followers you have and the influence of those followers
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Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer

  • From the perspective of graph theory, a Twitterer's followers would be considered their first-order network, and their "followers count" the same as their "degree".
  • Reach is the number of followers a Twitterer has (first-order followers), plus all of their followers (second-order followers). In the diagram above, the reach would be 27 (there are 28 nodes, including the Twitterer)
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21 Oct 08

Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models

  • The two poles of the debate are apparent in the world of microblogging, where people use the Web or their cellphones to blast short updates on their activities to a group of virtual followers.

    Twitter, a start-up company in San Francisco that has become a household name, is the leading microblogging outfit. At least three million people have tried its free service, according to TwitDir, a directory service. But Twitter has absolutely no revenue — not even ads.

  • Twitter has drawn much attention in the tech world since the service began in 2006. When a user is logged in through the Web or a cellphone, it asks one simple question, “What are you doing?” Users answer in 140 characters or less. While some of these “tweets” have the profundity of haiku, most are mundane, like “Sure is pretty out tonight” or “My eyes itch. I am very aggravated.”
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Twitter Tactics

  • If Twittering is new to you or you want to understand what you can make of those telling the world about themselves in 140 characters at a time, then is presentation is designed to answer these questions. Over a period of time I have offered quick glimpses into applications that are designed to promote and engage in online conversations - this is another along those lines.
26 Sep 08

Quigley: How Twitter is shaping the news

  • Notice how short the dispatches are. Twitter is a free Web-based service that allows anyone to type short comments (maximum 140 characters per "Tweet"). You broadcast these to anyone who chooses to follow you, and you follow anyone who you think is interesting.
  • However, the real power of Twitter is the interaction it allows. Readers asked questions and got answers. Readers told us of areas of destruction through Twitter, and our reporters checked out those areas. And when we saw a good dispatch from a non-journalist Twitter user, we retweeted their posts to give the most comprehensive news possible.
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22 Sep 08

Ping - Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. - NYTimes.com

  • Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes. Our brains’ wiring changes too. Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.
23 May 08

tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem

  • Which just wouldn’t work for me. One of the first things I do to start my day is page back to the last Twitter I read the night before, catching myself up. If you following a 130 people, this easily accomplished. 13,000, not so much.

  • Tim Bray, for example, clearly views Twitter as a volume tool, saying:

    There’s one thing that’s become terribly clear to me: Twitter is inherently a river-of-news; when I come back to my computer after a while offline, I have no urge to look back at the missed tweets. If it’s important, it’ll come back.
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15 Apr 08

How much is your reputation worth? | Inman News

  • Rocketboomer founder Andrew Baron is making techie headlines today with his plight to sell his Twitter account and its 1,500 followers. Baron listed the account for sale on eBay.Bloggers expect Baron's stunt will spark some debate about online credibility and privacy, and that Twitter will almost certainly delete the account once it's been sold.
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