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Sunday, July 20, 2008
I used to think Twitter was stupid. Twitter is a "micro-blogging" platform that allows you to quickly post short messages[tweets] of I see "What are you doing?" We still see many tweets of people answering that question faithfully... "I reading the morning paper with a perfect cup of coffee". This is info you may want to know from After one week of actual activity, I find it useful. as the wrong question — it focuses too much on daily minutiae, and not on what others may find interesting about you.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Two companies with very different results use Twinterns – interns who Twitter. She has increased Pizza Hut’s Twitter followers from 3,000 to more than 13,000 and successfully executed a sales promotion over the Fourth of July weekend . In response to a customer inquiry, she tweeted on Tuesday: “Currently the Stuffed Pizza Rolls are only available with pepperoni. I guess there is a point in using (temp) interns – they are young, presumably social media savvy, cheap, and bring a wealth of customer service, sales and pr experience with them.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking. Twitter is also a great way to attend a conference without actually being there – just follow a conference hashtag (e.g. #smib09 Image courtesy of Shutterstock
And just like passing notes in class, it’s also a lot more fun than simply sitting and listening. (and
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Here is a little formula I just cooked up called the Tweet-GQ (Tweet Gary Quotient) that works out a Twitter rating. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up
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Monday, March 16, 2009
This means that whenever you are on a page you want to Tweet and monitor, you click the toolbar button and up springs a popup window.
See? The bar chart takes you to the URL for more information on that Twurl/Tweet and has the format [link]
By the way, if you are tweeting your own blog posts - spamming ‘em - Wordpress has Tweetback plugins. How do you know who has clicked through on a link, how many times and the sum of click thrus on retweets? Let Auntie SilkCharm explain.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. One application I try to show is Twitter as social listening.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I've now participated in three Twitter chat sessions. I've interviewed Rinus about his way of facilitating a twitter chat. Why did you start facilitating Twitter Chats? It started with a movie that I saw about Twitter Tuesday for the U.S. Teachers . By using a hashtag (#) in all tweets, the discussion can be followed by everyone. The first time was I late, I arrived on the scene towards the end. The second I could not really follow well, I saw all these separate and short messages.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. I love Twitter and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time hanging out there in the last year. Of course I welcome critical feedback about the methodology employed, but I had two hours sleep last night and yes, I quickly realised the massive cultural bias implicit in most if not all of the questions.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Here are two social graphs taken from my Twitter following data. Twitter networks evolve from people watching how others are connected, and then exploring the unkown person's tweets to see if they are worth following . After viewing the last map, I have a new connecting strategy for myself on Twitter. need more diversity of info/topics/knowledge to monitor less Digerati, remove several redundant nodes more Consultants, more interaction with peers and elites in the consulting world When choosing a map, which do you prefer — pretty or useful ? In
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
In the wake of a truly ghastly series of articles on Twitter , I am beginning to think that journalists will never write well on any thing that involves online communities or social media.
Here’s what journalist Andy Pemberton of the Times Online learned via his informants about the stereotypical twitter user:
“The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering Perhaps the problem is this simple: They just don’t have the time to spend on participating in these communities which a thorough understanding of these phenomena require. You
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