My Twitter account just got lists enabled. This is seriously useful. Now Tweetie needs to get lists integrated too.
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How to Expire Tweets on Twitter
A lot of people consider Twitter a microblogging platform. I don’t really agree with that. I think Tumblr and Posterous are great examples of microblogging platforms. Twitter, to me, is much more like a “micromessaging"platform. As such I think it has more in common with email …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: How to Expire Tweets on TwitterI’m trying to suck all of my Tweets off of Twitter and there seems to only be 3,200 tweets. However, Twitter says on my profile page I have tweeted 4,237 times. Where are the other 1,037 tweets? Reason #75 why hosted services don’t deserve our content.
Xefer Twitter Visualization
This graphic can generally be put in the pile of visualizations of stuff that isn’t important, but the display is cool. This tool from Xefer looks at your Twitter behavior distribution over days of the week and time.
Happily, it seems I don’t use Twitter in my sleep.
Why do Cyclists Tweet?
I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from the release of VeloTweets. Thank you everyone for that, and please help spread the word about the site. These projects are about creating something that people love. There is no business behind it. The more people that like it, the more …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Why do Cyclists Tweet?Introducing VeloTweets - The Pulse of the Peloton
A couple of months ago I started to notice that there were a lot of professional cyclists that were getting on Twitter. Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) was really active, as were a couple of dozen other riders. I was interested in what they had to say, but I also didn’t want to …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Introducing VeloTweets - The Pulse of the PelotonProposal: Tag “140++” means a SIMPLE SOUNDBITE is ridiculous to deal with a complex topic. Twitter FAIL. Life isn’t that simple.
Took about 3 minutes to realize that Tweetie for the Mac is going to be my preferred client. Time to get a registration code. Nice v1.0!
Suggest that Twitter no longer “Fail Whales” but is instead “Harpooned!”.
Prediction: Twitter will NEVER make as much money from me as the various Twitter client developers have made from me on various platforms.