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Twitter

Twitter Lists, The New Measure of Influence?

If you are using Twitter, you are aware that it released the ability to create lists as part of it's core application. This has led many people to create lists on any subject you can think of. Of course with anything involving Twitter there is controversy. Especially among those who measure their importance by the number of followers they have.

Do People Take On-line Criticism Too Hard?

Over here in the UK, there have been two incidents in the past week of people taking drastic action because of criticism on-line.  The first is that of Stephen Fry, who threatened to leave Twitter after being called “boring”, and the second is of a village council who resigned en masse because of a blogger’s comments. The link to the

Is Trust a big deal for you on Twitter?

Here in Hawaii over the past couple of days a social media war been ongoing. According to a local blog post local Twitter celebrity, Arleen Anderson @alohaarleen with 80,000 followers has had some serious accusations made against her. A war is being waged against her from a lot of well known locals on multiple fronts, and she is fighting back

Is Twitter a Fad, or Here to Stay?

This will likely be the shortest article I'll have ever written.  Longer than 140 characters, but still, short. The question is, is Twitter a fad, or here to stay?  I saw a reference to Twitter as a fad in a recent article in the USAToday.  The author of the article was interviewing Robert Bartholomew about the book he just co-authored,

Mixero

I have a Twitter account and am always looking for a better desktop application.  I have tried, Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, Twhirl  and Tweetie  each has its pluses and minuses, but none are exactly what I am looking for.  Then I saw a post about Mixero another Twitter desktop application on Friendfeed and it looked interesting, so I requested an invitation code, which I received.  

Be Careful How You Use The “T” Word

I’m talking about the company that starts with “Twit” and ends with “er”, and seems to be the hottest social media site around these days. A year ago I would mention that I was using Twitter to friends and family and I would get a strange look. Now it seems everyone wants you to follow them on Twitter: radio and

A Little Twitter Cleaning

I finally did it. I went into Twitter and cleaned out all the dead profiles. Not an easy task either - lots of clicking involved. Nonetheless, I removed over 300 profiles I was following. In the last couple years I've been on Twitter, I have tried different ways to get my stuff across. For a time I sat there and