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50 Uses for Twitter

Awhile back, I’d started a list of "101 Uses for Twitter", but never seemed to get past 27 for some reason.  Of course, it had been last autumn since I brainstormed on it.  While I don’t think that I personally could come up with 101 uses, I’m sure there are many more than that.
So [...]


This Thing Called Twitter - Recap

This past Saturday (May 10th) I had a chance to facilitate an unconference session with Peter Fleck (@pfhyper on Twitter) at MinneBar on the University of Minnesota campus.  While Peter and I hadn’t planned it out long in advance, and we had technical difficulties at the beginning, namely to overhead equipment, it went pretty well.
The [...]


Is technology a crutch?

It’s something that I’ve been thinking about recently. For how much all these nifty tools have helped us become more productive, I think there is a percentage of creativity or inspiration that we give up. All productivity tools are things that can do harm to our work habits as much as they simplify a [...]


Evolving Twitter Usage

As is usually the case, the way we use tools changes over time.  I’m wondering if how I use Twitter is going to change because of some of the issues that have been discussed this weekend.  Probably not, I’d been starting to change how I use Twitter about a week or two ago.
While Twitter [...]


Selling Twitter accounts - what’s this b.s.?

So Andrew Baron has his Twitter account for sale on ebay?  Can anyone tell me what the point of this exercise is?  Other than a money grab that is.
I mean, who among his followers would keep following the account when they discover it’s not actually him?  So that negates the value of his follower [...]


Hugh quits Twitter

So I just found out that Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid deleted his Twitter account today. There is bound to be talk far and wide on how this is a sign that Twitter’s popularity is waning. I’m going to disagree with those assessments, but I do know one thing - Hugh says that [...]


Is today the day?

That’s the question I Friday morning, mainly because I’m just curious what people thought.  Originally I had planned to post this later that day, but… life intervened.  Anyway, a number of people shared their thoughts and I thought I’d put them together in a short post.  So the question was…
What makes today special for you? [...]


Twitters that will be at SXSW

Hello there to all my Twitter budz! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m sharing all the Twitter users that I know are going to be Tweeting from SXSW next week. So, if you’re not following them now, you can now! Also, these are all really great people with a lot of intelligent [...]


A Year With Twitter

So today marks a full year of Twitter use for me. I posted my first Tweet on 3/4/2007… something about reading feeds.
But that isn’t what I really want to talk about. Rather, I’ve been thinking of how integral Twitter has become as a part of my communications toolkit. It’s changed how [...]


Twitter: Down at 10:15 PM CDT

Yep, again.
Not sure what’s going on this time either.  I’ve tried the web, Twhirl, and via IM (Google Talk).  Nothing is connecting, though oddly, IM is showing that Twitter is “online”.
Moving on… reading feeds instead.  Will try to get more writing out of the way tonight.