Tag Archives: twitter

ProfileExpert.com: Custom Twitter Profiles

Apr 24, 2009 - 12:36pm

Last week was a big week for Twitter in the national news. Ashton Kutcher and CNN competed against one another to see who would reach 1 million followers first. Then Oprah plugged the micro-blogging service on her Friday show. All told, comScore’s global numbers for March 2009 show visitors to Twitter increased from 9.8 million [...]

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12 Reasons to Start Twittering | Michael Hyatt

Apr 14, 2009 - 08:39am

Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson, Inc. shares his 12 Reasons to Start Twittering. Among my favorites are his third and fourth points:
3. It will help you stay connected to people you care about. This is one of the few technologies I’ve found that actually contributes to community-building. In today’s busy world, it’s difficult to keep [...]

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1000 Tweets Later

Apr 10, 2009 - 10:22am

This week I passed one-thousand updates on my Twitter stream. In celebration of the occassion, I thought I would take another stab at explaining Twitter to the lay person.
Explaining what Twitter is is easy (i.e. it’s Facebook status updates without the rest of Facebook getting in the way); however, explaining why anyone would want to [...]

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The Twouble with Twitter

Mar 31, 2009 - 12:06pm

Does this short capture your sentiments towards Twitter?
(By the way, you can follow me on Twitter.)

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Is Twitter narcissistic?

Mar 31, 2009 - 08:13am

Although his posts are easily quotable in their entirety, I’m going to resist the urge and point you to Abraham Piper’s post which which deals with the question, “Is Twitter necessarily narcissistic?“

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The Mystique of Twitter

Feb 09, 2009 - 08:39pm

This New York Magazine piece captures the mystique of Twitter as a slowly emerging web phenomena.

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Real-Time News: Twitter Picture of Thursday’s NY Plane Crash

Jan 17, 2009 - 10:23pm

Janis Krums was riding on one of the first ferries to arrive at the scene of Thursday’s plane crash in New York’s Hudson River. He snapped a photo with his iPhone and tweeted it on his Twitter stream. Here’s a direct link to the photo.
His photo was one of the first photos of the crash, [...]

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Twitter Charts - Graph Your Tweets

Oct 27, 2008 - 06:04am

Twitter Charts is a Yahoo! Pipes mashup which graphs any user’s tweets based on a timeline that includes the day of the week and the hour. (HT: The Inquisitr)

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Twitter: Tool of Terrorists?

Oct 27, 2008 - 06:00am

A new intelligence report by the Army’s 304th Military Intelligence Battalion speculates on the potential for Twitter to be a tool for terrorists. However, as VentureBeat’s MG Siegler points out, this report contains humorously flawed concepts and senarios which could be easily achieved through more private and previously existing technologies.

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Twitter’s Most Important Question

Oct 21, 2008 - 02:19pm

According to venture capitalist Fred Wilson, the most important question facing Twitter isn’t how they’re going to make money. Rather, it’s helping the average person understand why they should use the micro-blogging service. Read more in this ZDNet post…

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