Category: Twitter

Neat new service called Quotably to help you follow Twitter conversations more effectively.

D’oh.

McCain staff person gets the boot after sending out a troublesome tweet…

McCain Staffer Out, Spread Obama Video – Politics News Story – WCVB Boston:

Republican Sen. John McCain’s campaign suspended a staff member who sent out a provocative video linking Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama to the comments of his spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

“The staffer, a low-level aide named Soren Dayton, sent out a link Thursday to the YouTube video, titled ‘Is Obama Wright?’ on the social messaging Web site Twitter.”

Lesson?

Don’t staff your social network duties with low level employees or temps. Take it upon yourself to make sure that your company is being represented by the best and brightest possible on these emerging social platforms. They do have sharp edges.

(Title refers to a Pink Floyd song if you are uncool and didn’t get it).

Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV is at it again… this time schooling all of us on how to market through Twitter.

Pay attention, folks. Class is in session…

Santa GaryVee: “A couple days a week (and sometimes much, much more!) the benevolent Santa GaryVee will direct you to exclusive mind-blowing deals, available only via Twitter.

Gary Vaynerchuk loves EVERYONE and wishes happiness and most importantly health to all. But once that’s granted, he wants nothing more than to put together incredible deals on wine and other merchandise.

Free shipping, discount codes, unbelievable prices… all will come as your gift from the one and only Santa GaryVee.

Friend up Santa GaryVee on Twitter today and reap the benefits of these wild, generous offers!”

Should be fun and yet another reason for you to check out Twitter. And if you’re already on Twitter, here’s your reason to join the Very Green Team.

As I told my students when I taught middle school science… figure it out for yourself.

And so says this post. This is the best piece I’ve read on what Twitter means, doesn’t mean and how you should or should not use Twitter.

Continue reading How To Use Twitter?

Interesting piece on my favorite piece of web tech, Twitter, in the NY Times today:

If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter – New York Times: “Some day these people will get their own lives, and I’ll be able to pop out to buy ballet flats whenever I want. But until they do, I figured there had to be a more efficient way for me to keep in touch with all of them at once.

This was how I ended up signing up for a free account from Twitter, a group-messaging application that despite all the media attention it has received still hasn’t broken into the mainstream or become a to-die-for tool for the youngest early adopters. While some tech-savvy adherents use Twitter to ‘micro-blog’ from cellphones and BlackBerrys, as well as from computers, other digital natives like my teenage daughters and their friends have remained oblivious to its charms.”

Yet another reason to use and love Twitter (I’m at http://www.twitter.com/samharrelson if you’d like to add me):

Google Maps and Twitter = Crazy Delicious Politics

People use Twitter in so many ways and with so many agendas that I generally try to keep my subjectivity hat on when I see people using Twitter in a way that grates on my own personal opinions (and tastes).

For me, Twitter has been a very organic community that I’ve grown and continually cultivate myself… pruning people I no longer am interested in following and adding new people who look interesting because of shared connections, interests or thoughts.

Seocracy has a tool that pretty much does the opposite of that and allows you to bulk add a couple hundred of “online marketing gurus” that originated with a post from MarketingPilgrim about “75 Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter.”

I was on that original list and thought it was a pretty neat idea. The list has since blossomed to over 200 “gurus” and continues to expand in the comments. And the number of random “I’m following you on Twitter” from people using the Seocracy tool continue to trickle in.

Nothing wrong with a tool like this I guess… but if you’re new to Twitter, I’ll urge you to make the most out of Twitter and use it wisely (not that there is one best way… it’s all subjective, right?).

The Seocracy.com Twitter Adder

Twitter moving to another hosting company… will this solve the frequent downtime? I hope so.

Joyeur: Twitter and Joyent: Update: “Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate the opportunity we had to work with the talented folks at Twitter. It is a great service. We wish Twitter every continued success.”

(Via Marshall Kirkpatrick on Twitter.)

Something we’re seeing way too much these days when we try to login to Twitter:

I love you, Twitter. I’ve loved you since Nov 2006. But you’re letting me down with the constant down time. I can (somewhat) understand Steve Jobs’ keynote from Macworld bringing you down, but the State of the Union causes you to hiccup? As Rex Hammock points out, there’s no way you’ll make it through the Super Bowl.

So, please start working (somewhat) regularly again. There’s lots of us out there who love you and are patient… to a point.