The power of language! it is a cool experiment that this designer did to see how demanding you have to be to get followers on twitter. WOW…. maybe i should open up more instead of holding myself back.
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140 insights about Twitter.
26May09140 Insights From Twitter In 140 Characters Or Less.
70 – 140…
I know what you’re thinking – that’s only 70, the title promised 140.
I love this statement for a blog which its goal is to have 140 insights. Read some, below is the top ten.
1. Good news travels fast.
2. Bad news travels even faster.
3. We are addicted to what’s new – not just news, but in each other’s lives.
4. There are a lot of meta discussions on every single social platform on the Internet, and Twitter is no exception.
5. We’re teaching everyone to get creative with linking.
6. Popularity is not trust.
7. Limiting yourself is a challenge in and of itself.
8. Sharing our lives is a natural.
9. The mundane, aggregated, can actually be interesting.
10. You can get to know people 140 characters at a time.
Better than Trillian + Pidgin – welcome Digsby
20Mar09 okay for those don’t know you can get a software for all your MSN, AIM, etc accounts in one, but now you can’t keep track of your status of folks online, but don’t want to waste time doing it.
Try Digsby, but i just found out about it, so i shall try it for a time. I like the email note cause i have too many to keep track and hate to login individually.
Try Digsby, but i just found out about it, so i shall try it for a time. I like the email note cause i have too many to keep track and hate to login individually.
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Twitter gets Premium
19Mar09 okay…clipmark just told me i am over the limit of “clippings” so i will post the rest here… I am not surprise that twitter is going premium but i love their names – sparrow, dove, owl, and eagle. maybe i wanted better bird names but still cool!
…Williams explained, “Celebrities and large corporations have begun flocking to Twitter for their social media needs, and growth has accelerated. Many users have expressed willingness to pay for accounts, and now we give them that opportunity.”
Williams stressed that free accounts will still be available to all users, and that only those wanting more services would pay. Premium accounts will come in four tiers: Sparrow, Dove, Owl and Eagle….
…Williams explained, “Celebrities and large corporations have begun flocking to Twitter for their social media needs, and growth has accelerated. Many users have expressed willingness to pay for accounts, and now we give them that opportunity.”
Williams stressed that free accounts will still be available to all users, and that only those wanting more services would pay. Premium accounts will come in four tiers: Sparrow, Dove, Owl and Eagle….
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More twittering plug-in links
15Mar09okay… so i have not been blogging for the last few days and it has not been about twitter… I was socializing (physically and facebook). One annoying thing now are the regular bloggers with hard core blogs of info are now twittering these days and neglecting us blogger fans. HA! too much confusion! the conversation is never 24/7, i would not call it a “day” cause we twitter world wide so how can you say it was this day or that….
but twitter is interesting and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Ad-agencies uses twitter to discover new market trends when they post new colors, ads, pictures to receive consumer feedback. I would not be surprise if design firms are using twitter right now for user research and question/answer for projects….(there is no price tag + time is quick, and you can get your questions roughed out before you do the “actual” research!) This is important cause many times we (designers) can not see the insight till it happens before our eyes, and then once the insight is there, then we have to see if their is a pattern of this insight among others for it to be a worthy idea to market.
Design worlds + Business worlds are communicating ideas and what conferences they went to and what new/cool discoveries they have found. And lately i sent a blog about tiny robots communicating on twitter. but i forgot to mention about a college laundry room twitters too! i wanted that years ago in freshman…..walking all those stairs to find out all the machines are used! now you log on twitter to check which machine is available.
but a new discovery occured… plugins and add-ons to make your twittering life easier. To be honest, i did not try out the plug-ins– takes time, cause i am literally juggling activities at the moment and i value my time to working on design ideas(portfolio) + watching media…hahahha i am forever a kid at heart!
Twittering these days
11Mar09This has become the biggest hype since sliced bread, uber amounts of people are exponentially logging on to twitter and becoming followers of major people for the mindless stupid comments like what they will be eating for lunch or just an out of the blue idea while walking down the street…. just one problem. How do you keep track of it all?
How can the user who is writing comments keep a tracking of patterns and such of people social comments. It is organic like a random conversation at a bar, street, or in an elevator, but what is unique is that all is written and trackable. For a stragetic designer, this is a goalmine to look for patterns, but how? how to make twitter useful like blog searching. That is currently what i am working on right now, cause everywhere – businessweek, internet, tv, etc- are commenting about twitter.
What is odd, why now? what is making twitter ticking… the bad economy…all the layoffs have the free time to twitter?
but for now, i found some unique stuff, people make products that communicates via twitter – true inspiring.
RoBe:Do makes two autonomous robots that arrive fully assembled and ready to accommodate a netbook brain. This impressive implementation allows you to send an order for fresh popcorn via Twitter and have it delivered to the couch. (Nice, but if the RoBe:Do came pre-programmed with the ability to get a beer out of the fridge, I’d buy one right now.)
Phillip Torrone and co from Make Magazine have made it even niftier by tweeting the current draw of connected devices and the Kilowatt-hours used in the last 24 hours.
It’ll also thank you when you water it, and even scold you for overwatering. Find out where to get one at Botanicalls, but be warned – the US$99 device only comes in kit form and requires assembly.