Why Newspapers Should Stop Using TinyURL. Twitter Reverses Policy Change, For Now. This is Nuts But Here&# Less than 24 hours after making a major change to the way that Twitter works, the company has reversed the change and thanked users for "helping us discover what's important! " The new new policy may be just as confusing as the old new policy, but we offer a chart below explaining just how this all works. (Update: See below, this may actually not be a substantive reversal.) This is no small matter - this is a fast unfolding story about the technical and social texture of the real-time social graph. To read our original coverage of the issue, and why it's a big deal, see our post Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew. For our speculation on the technical and social rational behind the change, see our post from this morning, Is This Why Twitter Changed Its Replies Policy?
For a chart explaining it all with arrows and a picture of a drunk bird, see below. This Isn't Insanity, This Is The Future Being Figured Out What does the future look like? Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours - washingtonpost.com. Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch. It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it all ¿ with bouts of downtime mixed in for good measure.
This is hardly the first time Twitter has had everyone up in arms, and it won't be the last, but it's pretty astonishing how the company seemed to solve one problem by creating two more. Sure, it's easy to play desk-chair quarterback, and probably a bit unfair ¿ but it's also fun, and a good cautionary tale, so let's do that. 13 Twitter Tips and Tutorials for Beginners. Twitter Spam Already Annoying Some Users. Seven Must-Have Twitter Tools. How to Be an Endearing Narcissist on Twitter. If you find Alisa endearing, follow her on @alisabow. If you find her incredibly endearing, read her blog Project Happily Ever After, which takes an honest look at the ups and downs of marriage, told through the eyes of a recovering divorce daydreamer. If you’ve ever raised the hackles of the Internet trolls before, then you’ve had the “Narcissist” word hatefully tossed your way. According to the trolls, the infraction of talking about yourself too much is worse than any other.
So you must understand just how courageous this is of me to admit this deep dark narcissistic secret. It’s this: I like narcissists, especially the ones I follow on Twitter. Not all of them mind you. I, of course, could do without the folks who feed me those boring facts of their lives – going to the bathroom, drinking a cup of coffee, eating toast, writing my blog, posting my blog, thinking about my blog, wishing other people knew about my blog … You will become endearingly narcissistic if your tweet: 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates. Twitter updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more. The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates. These amazing updates have made the news, pushed the boundaries of what the status update can do, and have even fundamentally changed people's lives.
This post is part of a Mashable mini-series providing analysis of social media’s smallest big trend: the status update. The series is supported by the TurboTax SuperStatus Contest, which invites you to win up to $25K for an interesting Twitter or Facebook message. 1. The marriage proposal On May 28th, Max Kiesler asked Emily Chang for her hand in marriage. Yes, in two little status updates, a couple got engaged. 2. When is it too early to let your kids tweet? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Moore's response? 9. Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use? When Stars Twitter, a Ghost May Be Lurking. Twitter Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts. Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs.
Last night Loic Le Meur released a new version of Twhirl. How does it compare to TweetDeck? “Scoble, you’re using some weird language here.” Yeah, if you aren’t a Twitter addict you can skip this post. So, why compare just TweetDeck to Twhirl? Especially when there are dozens of tools to use with Twitter? Because I listen to the people who I am following and these are the two I see getting discussed all the time. So, anyway, now that we’ve covered my gatekeeping function, why choose one tool over another? TweetDeck appeals to those who have to watch Twitter all day long. TweetDeck is a dominant mode app. You can see how that would be useful for, say, someone who worked at a big company and needed to track everything said about her company, her competitors, and the space her company works in. I’ve got to admit, I use TweetDeck more often because I like the layout of columns and the fact that it takes over my whole screen. So, now we come to Twhirl.
Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from. Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music and videos, to help you quit smoking and lose weight — spontaneously extending the text-based service into one of the web’s most fertile (and least likely) application platforms. Hardware hackers have set up household appliances to send status alerts over Twitter, like a washing machine that tweets when the spin cycle is through, or a home security system that tweets whenever it senses movement inside the house. Others have incorporated Twitter into their DIY home automation systems. Forgot to turn off the lights?
Send a tweet to flip the switch by remote control. Twitterfall. Twitter: The how to get started guide for businesspeople. Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared. Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you do what Twitter won't let you. We'll shed a little light on these 15 directories by separating them into four categories: applications, people, politics, and strictly business.
Applications Twitter Fan Wiki Overview: The apps section of Twitter Fan Wiki is like Wikipedia for Twitter apps, so it's for you, buy you mentality, making it the most robust in terms of applications listed, but potentially the most unreliable if entries aren't current. What you won't get: There's a limited feature set, which means you can rate, sort, or comment on applications. Twitdom Twtbase. Confirmed: Tweeting yourself onto Techmeme works | The Industry. Filttr.