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Why I Love Twitter - O'Reilly Radar

If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I’m paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O’Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I’m following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference planners, and researchers within O’Reilly. A lot of my job is, as we say, “redistributing the future” – following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others. And twitter is an awesome tool for doing just that. Like a lot of people, I tried out Twitter early on, but didn’t stick to it. I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services. Twitter is simple. What’s different, of course, is that Twitter isn’t just a protocol.

Ma soirée Bombay, ou pourquoi Twitter est désormais indispensable - Suivez le geek Vous n'êtes pas sans savoir que des évènements dramatiques se déroulent à Bombay, la situation n'étant toujours pas très claire, ni stabilisée semble-t-il. Il se trouve que j'étais de perm' hier soir lorsque ça a commencé. Il se trouve aussi que, gros sceptique, je ne me suis inscrit à Twitter que très récemment. D'habitude, nous avons un œil sur les fils d'agences, un autre sur les grands sites d'infos mondiaux (BBC ou CNN le plus souvent). Je me suis donc branché un troisième oeil sur Twitter, pour voir. Rien, à ma connaissance, ne va sur cette Terre plus vite que Twitter. Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System I’ve seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the Workplace, It’s Power to the Connectors. She also points out that success today is based on a person’s ability to leverage power and influence within their social networks, to act as “connectors” between people and information, and in turn build social capital. She leaves the evaluation of the significance of Twitter open-ended, but she lays out a few characteristics of Twitter that I found most interesting: In the World According to Twitter, giving away access to information rewards the giver by building followers. (just keep those points in mind, I’m going to come back to it) Insight #2 From a social viewpoint, the architecture of business seems all wrong.

6 part series - Topic 2 - Twitter You can read topic 1 on LinkedIn here. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing ? Source – Twitter.com – Please feel free to follow me Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like web, IM and mobile. I have been using twitter for some time now and strongly believe that it can be used for much more than just sharing your status. Twitter is primarily used for staying in touch with your contacts via status update but I slowly see a trend emerging where smart and forward looking companies have started using twitter for business. Personal useBusiness use Personal Stay in constant touch with friends and family – tweet about your day to day activity to keep your friends and family informed about what you are doing. Business Happy Tweeting

White paper - distributed influence: quantifying the impact of s I am delighted to share with you a white paper outlining the thoughts and views of several key stakeholders who met late last year to discuss the issue of measuring online influence. Download: “Distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media” (PDF) The catalyst behind this document was the publication of Edelman’s Social Media Index in July 2007 with David Brain. The white paper aims to address this issue. defining influence in the context of social mediais influence what we should measure? In completing this, my thanks go to the many people who left insightful comments on the various blogs as well as the smart group of individuals who took part in the roundtable, namely: I welcome your thoughts and comments about this document. Like this: Like Loading...

Twitter CEO: The revenue's coming soon, but I won't te At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams brushed off--again--criticisms that the company is slow to turn on its revenue-generating engines. At first, it sounded like Williams was a bit lost on the revenue front. "We will make money, and I can't say exactly how because...we can't predict how the businesses we're in will work." As he has before, he hinted at generating fees from sales-related Twitter content and from corporate users. But as the conversation went on, one got the impression that Williams actually has a plan. He revealed that the company is in talks with large consumer packaged good companies, and whether that's to sell the company internal services or to help the company monetize its own Twitter feeds, it's promising. Williams said, "We're looking at Q1 for revenues." The revenue plans aren't just ads or sponsorships.

TwitterSalk - Espionner une personne sur Twitter Voilà autre chose, maintenant on va pouvoir vous suivre sur Twitter sans que vous le sachiez. TwitterSalk est une extension Firefox qui, une fois installée, vous permettra de voir un nouveau bouton sur les comptes Twitter des gens, et en cliquant dessus, vous permettra de suivre leur conversation à leur insu.

On Twitter and in the Workplace, It's Power to the Connecto by Rosabeth Moss Kanter | 1:00 PM November 16, 2009 In the World According to Twitter, giving away access to information rewards the giver by building followers. The more followers, the more information comes to the giver to distribute, which in turn builds more followers. The process cannot be commanded or controlled; followers opt in and out as they choose. The results are transparent and purely quantitative; network size is all that matters. The significance of Twitter is yet to be determined; it is a simple, impersonal, and transient application of technology. America in the 20th century was called a “society of organizations.” Today, people with power and influence derive their power from their centrality within self-organizing networks that might or might not correspond to any plan on the part of designated leaders. This changes the nature of career success. Connectors have always been more promotable, even in traditional hierarchies. To be known is to be in the know.

Phil Bradley's weblog Using Twitter in libraries As part of an ongoing discussion on the LIS-LINK JISC mailing list I posted some ideas on using Twitter, both on an individual and library basis. One or two people kindly suggested that I should blog my response as well, hence this post. I have to say that I found it very depressing to see the report that Twitter is blocked (even on one site, though I suspect a lot more) and I would be fascinated to know what, if any, justification is used. My prediction is that any such justification is going to be based on media hype (which is seldom accurate) and without any actual experience. A lot of the people who I follow do actually work in legal settings - for some reason this particular niche of users has really started to run with it. Of course, when Twitter is 'banned' that may mean a whole host of different things. It may be useful to provide some justifications for the use of the service by libraries or librarians. Trending information - what are people talking about right now?

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