Posts tagged Twitter

a32b: I’ve noticed that I’m good at using Twitter on weekdays, & Tumblr on weekends, but not vice versa.

Twitter Blog: Highlights from Superbowl Sunday

I wouldn’t have guessed there were that many football fans expressing their emotions in real time through Twitter. I think this is a positive sign for citizen journalism. Found this on Grubber’s site.

Twitterholic

I just found this a few days ago. It’s a great site to check when you’re new to Twitter, because you can both see the some of the most interesting uses of Twitter, but also get ideas for how you should use it.

A great explanation of why Twitter is so useful and fun.

Twitter / redsoxcast

Funny story from yesterday:

I find out from an ESPN breaking news alert (sent via text message) that the Red Sox are boycotting their scheduled Japan trip because the team was mislead about their coaches compensation for the trip.

I immediately start combing through the Boston Globe’s website and ESPN’s site and cannot find any more info on the story.

A little while later, after many more fruitless searches for more details on this juicy news topic, I get an update from someone I follow on Twitter whose handle is “RedSoxCast” that the team will be playing in Japan. Great news. I figure the author was relaying news from ESPN or the Globe, but I go back to those sites and there’s still nothing.

For all I know, he was just watching TV and posting about what he was watching, but it doesn’t matter what his source was, because I needed immediate info on a topic, and for the first time in my life, Twitter was more valuable than ESPN or my local newspaper.

Now, here’s the really ironic part of the story: The whole thing happened on my iPhone while I was sitting in a class called “Management in the Information Age”, and my excellent professor, Andrew McAfee (who has an amazing blog on the topic of Web 2.0 tools in business or Enterprise 2.0), is a huge Sox fan. I mentioned what happened to him after class and he seemed interested both in the news and the medium in which it had presented itself.

It makes me wonder how far off the era of “citizen journalism” really is. My intuition tells me that there will always be a place for professional writers and journalists, but that same intuition would have said that something like Wikipedia would never work.

The really twisted thing is that the case we were discussing was Wikipedia, and how, why, and if it works.

merlin: Twitter Profile Page Ideas My thumbnail ideas for useful information to display on an advanced, public Twitter profile page, per user. I.E.: Stats and heuristics to help me decide if this person will be interesting/unannoying to follow on Twitter. Average and highest daily post volume %age of total posts that are “@” responses %age of total posts that include a link Five most favorited posts by this person Five posts by this person that attracted the most “@” responses (up to) Five people this person follows who I also follow (SORT BY least number of followers ASC) [tells me more than if they follow CNN or Jason Calicacacainis] Five most followed people who follow this person Ratio of Number of posts to number of people Followed (“The ‘Are You Really Using This?’ Index”) Favorited posts to number of people they follow (“The Joy Index”) Followers to Followed people (“The Reciprocation Index”) Bonus: percentage of total links that point to the same domain name. (“DoucheFilter”) Yeah it requires decrypting shorturls; that’s why we have computers. So, yeah. Unpack those left joins, and have at it, boffins. Brilliant. Merlin is the absolutely best example of good Twitter use. He is to Twitter what Simmons is to sports writhing. Most of my friends don’t follow the kind of tech that interests me, so I don’t know anyone else personally who would appreciate him, yet, but I suspect he’ll become increasingly relevant.

merlin:

Twitter Profile Page Ideas

My thumbnail ideas for useful information to display on an advanced, public Twitter profile page, per user. I.E.: Stats and heuristics to help me decide if this person will be interesting/unannoying to follow on Twitter.

  • Average and highest daily post volume
  • %age of total posts that are “@” responses
  • %age of total posts that include a link
  • Five most favorited posts by this person
  • Five posts by this person that attracted the most “@” responses
  • (up to) Five people this person follows who I also follow
    • (SORT BY least number of followers ASC)
    • [tells me more than if they follow CNN or Jason Calicacacainis]
  • Five most followed people who follow this person
  • Ratio of
    • Number of posts to number of people Followed (“The ‘Are You Really Using This?’ Index”)
    • Favorited posts to number of people they follow (“The Joy Index”)
    • Followers to Followed people (“The Reciprocation Index”)
  • Bonus: percentage of total links that point to the same domain name. (“DoucheFilter”)
    Yeah it requires decrypting shorturls; that’s why we have computers.

So, yeah. Unpack those left joins, and have at it, boffins.

Brilliant. Merlin is the absolutely best example of good Twitter use. He is to Twitter what Simmons is to sports writhing. Most of my friends don’t follow the kind of tech that interests me, so I don’t know anyone else personally who would appreciate him, yet, but I suspect he’ll become increasingly relevant.

Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me see what friends are eating for lunch, how they’ve redecorated their bedroom, their latest haircut. Twitter tells me when they’re hungry, what technology is currently frustrating them, who they’re having drinks with tonight.
reboot10 - Ambient Intimacy is a fantastic term, that I discovered on my old Professor’s blog.
Yes, I really do love your site!

I am writing because I read your post about your recent experience with Comcast. I decided to send you this message because I wanted to apologize for the experience. I also wanted to let you know, please feel free to contact me if you still needed assistance on your Comcast service.

Best Regards,
Mark C.
Comcast Corp.
Got an incredible response from Comcast. What makes it even more incredible is that I never emailed them. They must have someone with a Google Alert who just reads and responds to customers who mention them on their blogs or on Twitter. Here’s one prominent example, and here’s an example of it working for someone less famous.

The question is: Will they refund the ridiculous $2 charge for switching from HBO to Showtime?
Collaboration is great for wikis and car washes; in business (as in design), I’ll take a gifted fascist every time.
Merlin Mann via Twitter

Hofstadter's law

Just learned about this clever concept from a great post on 43 folders. That site had been quiet for the last few months as the primary author, Merlin Mann, is a new father and was really excited about spending time with his baby. He’s easing back into writing though, and his stuff is better than ever. If you like geeky humor, check out his hilarious, prolific Twitter feed.

Three great blog posts I read today about Twitter today

  1. Here’s one from my old HBS prof, Andrew McAfee
  2. And here’s another from someone I just follow on Twitter
  3. And here’s from CNN

Great post from the Twitter blog on activity on their site during each candidate’s acceptance speech. Playing around with Search.Twitter.com is a great way to satisfy some curiosity about popular opinion, with a little more immediacy than what Google offers. Play around with it the next time you have time to kill. Here’s a search I tried to see where my last name was popping up (you can see how I attempted to get rid of French entries and uses of the phrase “Bain of my existence”).

Great post from the Twitter blog on activity on their site during each candidate’s acceptance speech. Playing around with Search.Twitter.com is a great way to satisfy some curiosity about popular opinion, with a little more immediacy than what Google offers. Play around with it the next time you have time to kill.

Here’s a search I tried to see where my last name was popping up (you can see how I attempted to get rid of French entries and uses of the phrase “Bain of my existence”).

Hung out with Rob on Sunday night. He changed jobs and moved to London in the last year, so we had a bunch of catching up to do. It was fun to hear about his time at Google, and the differences between Europe and the US, but it was also really nice to have my first conversation with another Republican in what feels like months :-)

Hung out with Rob on Sunday night. He changed jobs and moved to London in the last year, so we had a bunch of catching up to do.

It was fun to hear about his time at Google, and the differences between Europe and the US, but it was also really nice to have my first conversation with another Republican in what feels like months :-)

I had a lot of fun watching the US Open this weekend, and for anyone who’s both a tennis fan and somewhat tech-savvy, you might be interested to know that Andy Murray is on Twitter. He says he’s taking a few days off, but he’s fun to follow if you like his game.

I had a lot of fun watching the US Open this weekend, and for anyone who’s both a tennis fan and somewhat tech-savvy, you might be interested to know that Andy Murray is on Twitter. He says he’s taking a few days off, but he’s fun to follow if you like his game.

Twitter: Trends

I’m quickly becoming addicted to this Twitted account. It’s a great way to get a quik feel for what real people are really talking about, not just what the media find interesting.