Another day, another crappy user experience on Twitter. Sadly, failures have become de rigueur which leads me to longing for another option. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still having a love affair with Twitter, but the bloom is off the rose. The new car smell has faded. The moon has lost its honey. Gone are the gut-wrenching, mind-bending panic attacks.
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Do you view following as a commitment and unfollowing like a broken promise — or worse — a divorce? Do you watch your follower count and immediately unfollow anyone who has unfollowed you as if to say, “AHA! You don’t deserve to have me as a follower when you don’t follow me!” What does following mean to you? Most
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What do geeks do when their Twitterverse implodes? It’s no longer breaking news that there was a series of DDOS attacks on the internet last week. I didn’t notice it so much on Facebook because (1) I’m not on there as much and (2) Facebook often seems slow and bloated to me. But my beloved Twitter? Oh yes, I knew
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Every day I find more and more influence graders online. The basis for these false metrics are number of followers or friends, number of tweets, retweets and links. All of these things are arbitrary and do not speak in any way to the impact we have on other people’s lives. Have you ever wondered about the people whose lives you
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Twitterface, “a web-based, personally-branded, multi-account Twitter interface”, launched its public beta on July 1. Being a bit of a Twitter addict, I felt compelled to try it out and see what all the hubbub was about. According to the the Twitterface website: Twitterface gives you the ability to design your own interface. When you show people this cool, new tool,
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It’s called Social Networking I know a lot of people don’t get it. They don’t get the Web. They don’t get the blogosphere. And most especially, they don’t get Twitter. Numerous people in my so-called “real” life have been led to believe that I lost the last bit of sanity I possessed because I dared to espouse the virtues and wonders of
