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Twitter IS Human-Powered Search

Twitter IS Human-Powered Search

While Google is my go-to for almost everything search, there are some situations when keyworded-search just doesn't do. Google's Pagerank algorithm may find answers that are most relevant to the entire web, but sometimes I want to know what people in my field, in my area, or from my past, are using. Those people know my tastes, or at least seem to have similar tastes to me. In short, I want to know Read the article >>
How to Find Interesting New Twitter-ers

How to Find Interesting New Twitter-ers

I've been onboarding some of my offline friends to twitter lately. It's funny how the best brands make you into an evangelist for their platform, isn't it? Anyway, I've found that after they get past the initial idea, and decide to sign-up, their biggest point of friction is finding new interesting people to follow. Here are the best twitter-er finding tools I've found so far. - http://wefollow.com/ Read the article >>
Observations on Social Media’s role in the reporting of the Hudson River Crash

Observations on Social Media’s role in the reporting of the Hudson River Crash

First, I just want to say that my heart goes out to the people on this plane. Let us all pray that no one got hurt. That being said, I have just have a few observations on how the crash was broken to the world. - News of the crash broke on Twitter, several minutes before it was on CNN or MSNBC. - The guy who posted the first twitpic of this event, @jkrums, at http://twitpic.com/135xa has gone from Read the article >>
5 Twsins that will get you an unfollow on Twitter.

5 Twsins that will get you an unfollow on Twitter.

1. Thou shalt not tweet several times per minute. Goes without saying. It's just annoying. Spread them out. Use tweetlater. Whatever you need to do so you don't hijack half my feed. 2. Thou shalt not frequently tweet mundane information. Classic examples include "Eating dinner", and "Driving to the dentist". Do your followers a favor and don't tweet it unless you have something more interesting Read the article >>
List of Twitter Acronyms

List of Twitter Acronyms

Methinks its about time someone began keeping a list of all the twitter acronyms floating around. For simplicitys sake, I've neglected to track any acronyms that began on AIM, IRC, or other earlier internet services (ie: LOL, WTF, etc) FTW - For the Win. Origin: unknown FTL - Opposite of FTW. For the Loss. Origin: unknown FAVRD - Verb. To FAVRD a tweet, is to vote for it to appear Read the article >>