Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Gaining Twitter Followers: The Science of the ReTweet

Dan Nichols at has a neat piece on the science of retweeting.

Twitter has become hot in the business world. Sure, you can tweet pictures of your cat attacking your wife's printer or your feelin…

Taking Twitter Local

Twitter is starting to go local – and that could make it much more useful.

I like Twitter. But finding people who live in my general area has always been difficult. Local trends on Twitter will h…

Twitter Clones

TechCrunch recently published an interesting piece on the new Spanish language Twitter clone, Birddi. I hadn’t realized how many Twitter clones were out there…There have been many Twitter-clones…

Woofer Now Available: the Anti-Twitter

I Twitter from time to time. It comes to me in spurts, and then I go a week or so without even checking it.

The Twitter phenomenom is something everyone knows about. So this new Twitter look alike, W…

Tweetmeme Gets Your Blog on Twitter

If I want to tweet about a particular post at your blog I probably have to go through the following steps: a.) Open the deep link or post I want to specifically send on Twitter b.) Open my Twitter acc…

The Month in Twitter – A Nobel Prize Coming?

It's been a fascinating few weeks for Twitter. First we were all talking about the end of the Twitter World (The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?,) and then the next thi…

Twitter Attention This Month…

Twitter always gets a lot of attention in the Blogosphere. But it seems like the past week has had a number of interesting Twitter stories.

BusinessWeek (of all people) published an article on why p…

Why Use Twitter?

Jeff Quipp over at Search Engine People came up recently with what I thought was a great list of reason to use Twitter.People ask me all the time; "Why in the world would I ever want to use Twit…

Custom Background for Your Twitter Page

Mashable had a great piece last week on customizing your Twitter background, and I now have that task on my things-to-do list.

Ben Parr talks about why someone would bother with this, and he referen…

Is Twitter Politically Conservative?

Well, it's hard to believe. But I managed to go over a month without talking about Twitter. It's been 32 days now since we discussed some aspecty of the fabulous microblog. So we're past …