Category Archives: Twitter

Scoble on Twitter vs. FriendFeed

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Robert Scoble posts about why he thinks Twitter is for some people while FriendFeed is not. Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever ready anything more arrogant or pandering. I’ve followed Scoble’s blog since his days before joining UserLand but I can’t recall anything like this.

Personally I haven’t found the need for FriendFeed. I keep up with folks in my social graph pretty well right now with a mixture of Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds. Of course, I’m not trying to follow the amount of people Scoble is so we are using things different.

I don’t mind lists like this but it really doesn’t have to be so arrogant.

The Twitter Bail-Out Plan

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Looks it is up to all of us… It is our duty to find way for Twitter to make money!

Twitter is addictive and fun and even occasionally useful. If anybody can pull this business model off, it will be Twitter. It has scale, seem to be moving mainstream and they’ve even fixed their reliability issues.

But Twitter won’t survive if it doesn’t find a great revenue model. This matters to all of us.

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

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It seems that yesterday and today were filled with various bits of Twitter. First, I added the Top of the Ticket blog to our various Twitter accounts at latimestot. I’m thinking about releasing the code for how I do it if I get approval. It’s pretty basic but could be useful for anyone needing to update multiple accounts.

Yesterday, Tara Hunt posted a great intro for companies to use Twitter. It has great advice plus some good tools for keeping track of who is talking about you.

One was Tweetburner which shortens URLs and keeps track of how many clicks you get. The other is Tweetscan which allows you to search thru all tweets for a keyword.

I’ve found some interesting ones which weren’t complimentary to the Times but are a great look at people’s opinions.