Since the recent article TechCrunch published, Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”, it has gotten a lot of attention. Both from its own readers, the web community and Twitter too. TechCrunch had published confidential information about Twitter. However Evan Williams of Twitter had said otherwise that TechCrunch did not
[Continue Reading...]Twitter Backgrounds Gallery: Strut Your Twitter Background!
Recently I ventured across Twitter Backgrounds Gallery, a website that showcases Twitter users’ backgrounds. The site also allows users to rate each others’ backgrounds on a star rating system. This system does not allow users to sign up to submit, but rather suggest your background to their Twitter account (@TwitterBGallery ). This is a fun
[Continue Reading...]Teens Are Not Using Twitter? Yeah, right!
TechCrunch posted Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe. While I can understand why some are not, this is not the case. Anyone on Twitter witness the junk @dfizzy and his friends spread throughout Twitter, between June 5th through June 11th,2009. Teens ARE using twitter, but in a way that Twitter was not
[Continue Reading...]What Happened to Twitter Love, TweeterAttack?
I am disappointed… not the usual ‘kind of’, but full out disappointed. I recently saw a tweet go throw my stream from a user who was on TweeterAttack. Out of respect, I am not saying who did it. However, it was okay to friendly ‘buy’ your followers, but to attack them. Come on! After experiencing
[Continue Reading...]Hashtags: Hashed and Re-hashed
No one listens when people say to keep hash tags simple. Sometimes making hashtags into acronyms can be confusing. I would be scratching my head if I saw #tna come across for possible a political or religious trending topic, but not mean TNA (short for…excuse my language – “Tits ‘n Ass.”) In fact, I probably
[Continue Reading...]An Afterthought: Twitter Verified Accounts
With threats to sue last in June 2009 from people like the St. Louis Cardinal’s manager, Tony La Russa, Twitter has come up with verified accounts. Mashable was among the many that reported on this change after Twitter introduce the verified account feature and their reaction to the increasing impersonation attempts. Right now, verified accounts
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