Why Twitter Has Become My Favorite Instant Messenger
I’ve long had a theory that the easier you are to contact, the stupider the questions become. For instance, how many times has someone sent you an instant message about a simple question, and if you answer the question right away, you get the same question from the same person again? If instead you missed the message and waited five minutes to respond, and asked them what’s up, and their first response is, “I figured it out”, and then you never receive that same question again.
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5 Reasons Why Twitter is Awesome
41 Flares Filament.io 41 Flares × Here at Buffer we’ve been developing new features and often find ourselves pondering how to make our product better. This week we’d like to share some of the thoughts we’ve had about how questioning our actions more can help us. What we have found helps us a lot in various situations is to simply pause and actively reflect upon what we are doing at that moment.
Reformed skinhead endures agony to remove tattoos
Julie Widner was terrified — afraid her husband would do something reckless, even disfigure himself. "We had come so far," she says. "We had left the movement, had created a good family life. We had so much to live for.
Where Twitter Trending Topics Really Come From [STATS]
HP's Social Computing Research Group has released the results of a new study that dives into the anatomy of Twitter's Trending Topics. For its research, HP analyzed 16.32 million tweets on 3,361 different trending topics between September and October 2010. To get its data, HP queried Twitter's search API every 20 minutes. HP discovered that Twitter's Trending Topics algorithm cares more about the specific subject and reach of a tweet than who tweets it or how often it's tweeted. Around 31% of trending topics are retweets. More importantly, 72% of those retweets come from mainstream media outlet like @cnnbrk or @nytimes.
Interesting Times: What’s So Good About “Mad Men”?
“Mad Men” has a curious status in our household. We came to it a couple of seasons late, as we do most things, after an even more belated binge on “The Wire” (five seasons squashed into five weeks, between last year’s political conventions and Obama’s big night). On the heels of that riveting panorama of corruption, cruelty, and struggle across classes and races in Baltimore, “Mad Men” seemed a little shallow by comparison: John O’Hara right after Dickens.
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Twitter looks chaotic: but don't be afraid
Imagine a jumble sale just after a gaggle of pensioners have steamed through it. It's a haphazard pile of clashing colours and styles, heaps of dross tangled up with the odd gem. Yet if you let your eye adjust to the chaos, and then rummage, it's surprising what turns up. That, more or less, is what Twitter is like.
Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford it all before Christmas.
Top 5 URL Shorteners (And 3 Honorable Mentions)
Twitter’s 140-character limit has forced the internet to get a little creative in how it shares links. You’ll likely have noticed that links on Twitter aren’t in your standard www.websitename.com/articlename format – instead, they’re shortened using URL shorteners to take up as little precious characters as possible. We’ve compiled a list of 5 great URL shorteners you can use to share your links on Twitter without worrying about going over the character limit (and 3 honorable mentions, too). Here are my favorite five URL shorteners, in no particular order. These are among the most popular URL shorteners out there, and they offer features like stats, tracking, and integration with some of the most-used Twitter dashboards.
The Most Enjoyably Pointless Twitter Accounts
At this point, it's hard to say which twitter feeds are parodies since most of the more famous Twitter accounts have already become parodies of themselves (Donald Trump has to realize he's a punchline, right?). But these admittedly fake twitter accounts are spewing some very hilarious nonsense -- some parody, others just pointlessness. They're a welcome antidote to the self-aggrandizement of most feeds.
