Twitter is magic

New York Times about Twitter

2008-01-17T19:27:00.001+01:00

New York Times published an intersting feature about twitter. Extracts:

"Twitter, which was created by a 10-person start-up in San Francisco called Obvious, is a heady mixture of messaging; social networking of the sort associated with Web sites like MySpace; the terse, jittery personal revelations of “microblogging” found on services like Jaiku; and something called “presence,” shorthand for the idea that people should enjoy an “always on” virtual omnipresence.

It’s easy to satirize Twitter’s trendiness, and cranky critics have mocked the banality of most tweets and questioned whether we really need such an assault upon our powers of concentration. But right now, it’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet."

"Instead, Mr. Williams says, Twitter is best understood as a highly flexible messaging system that swiftly routes messages, composed on a variety of devices, to the people who have elected to receive them in the medium the recipients prefer. It is a technology that encourages a new mode of communication, he contends."

Twitter is flexible. A lot of possibilities.

Mr. Scoble, the blogger, wrote to me by e-mail: “Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.”

(Picture: Jack Dorsey, left, and Biz Stone of Obvious, the 10-person start-up in San Francisco that created the Twitter messaging service. Regular users of the service are called twitterers.)

7 Twitters Of The World

2008-01-10T19:36:00.000+01:00

Twitter's clones are everywhere.

How Many Twitter Accounts Do You Have?

2008-01-09T16:37:00.000+01:00

TechCrunch France editor Ouriel Ohayon like a growing number of people loves Twitter, but he is (well, I thought initially) fairly unique because has more than one Twitter account. Ouriel decided to run a small poll to see if others had more than one account. Although a small sample size, he was far from alone. According to his poll, the majority of Twitter users (53%) have more than one Twitter account. (Techcrunch)

Why obvious?

2008-01-05T02:13:00.000+01:00

The compagny that launched twitter is called Obvious.

Why obvious? Different reasons...

"Great ideas tend to be obvious—later

We hope to make the type of things that make you say "Of course!" The Internet, Google, the wheel. These are all obvious things, but hard to imagine before they existed. When we started Blogger, we were working on a much more complicated product. We almost wrote Blogger off, because it was too simple, too trivial—too obvious. It wasn't obvious until much later what blogging would become."

Help Wanted: Office/Operations/Executive Assistant/Master of Miscellaneous Domains

2008-01-05T02:10:00.000+01:00

Looking for someone.

You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage

2008-01-02T18:58:00.000+01:00

On techcrunch

A new service provided by Brad Kallet of Pantsland fame allows you to track exactly how frequently you are using Twitter.

Twitter Stats offers a key range of (as the name suggests) Twitter statistics based on username. My stats below demonstrate the basics. The service is a little slow at this stage (up to 5 minutes to generate the stats) and the graphics are basic, but for Twitter users looking for some statistics it’s a helpful service.

Also there and there

Twitter business model

2008-01-02T18:56:00.000+01:00

The question of business model timing seems to come up weekly with regards to some startup. As Twitter usage has grown, have they f'ed themselves out of a real, sustainable business model? And has Pownce done something right by launching with a business model? Personally I prefer that a startup come out of the gate with a business model -- perhaps it's the accountant in me. (Read next...)

Twitter: your friends give you good informations

2008-01-01T22:04:00.000+01:00

Twitter is all about friends. Friends give you information on twitter. That's what this blogger is telluing us.

"Blog Friends and equivalents let me know what a person’s surfing, Facebook mini feeds show me what someone’s sharing, there are many social bookmarking tools and RSS readers available, there are even shared readers available.

But so far none of them gives me this kind of information as succinctly as Twitter. Now of course the value didn’t come directly from Twitter, it came from Halley. I know Halley. I know she reads a lot. And I trust her opinions, without having to agree with all of them. And when she says “Best thing I’ve read all week” I sit up and take notice. I take a look. I wander over to where she points."

Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

2008-01-01T20:03:00.000+01:00

Evan Williams says everithing about the subject. Great!

Twitter founder Evan Williams exclusive interview

2008-01-01T19:46:00.000+01:00

How to evaluate a new product idea

2008-01-01T18:00:00.000+01:00

found here

Evan Williams is one of those many entrepreneurs that I admire. Well, he is one of the team behind two hugely successful web applications - Blogger and Twitter. Here, I’m going to re-phrase and re-think over one of his recent article - Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea.

Evan goes deep with the following points;

Tractability
Obviousness
Deepness
Wideness
Discoverability
Monetizability
Personally Compelling

Twitter: a particular experience

2008-01-01T17:55:00.000+01:00

Matthew is all right when he says that following a friend on twitter is absolutely different from following him on Facebook or on his blog. You can follow and read him...

Tokyo Pics

2008-01-01T12:29:00.000+01:00

found here

also there

Twitter is so sexy (oh! Justine)

2008-01-01T12:21:00.000+01:00

(Flickr)

Twitter on CBS News

2007-12-31T21:57:00.000+01:00

03/28/2007

Should I go back to twitterland?

2007-12-31T21:45:00.000+01:00

Jim asks the question. He says:
"I want to go back to Twitter, and if I do, I’ll just talk to myself and not listen to anyone else? Seems… wrong?"

Twitter on Techcrunch

2007-12-31T21:36:00.000+01:00

Techcrunch has published a lot of post about twitter this year. Read them all!

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007

2007-12-30T23:10:00.000+01:00

Tamar wrote a great post!

about twitter:

Newbies Guide to Twitter (Chris Brogan): Haven’t used Twitter yet? Maybe you should get started, but if you’re inundated with all the hype about Twitter, sit down, relax, and read this beginner’s guide.
The Big Juicy Twitter Guide (Caroline Middlebrook): Want more Twitter goodness? Caroline has a 7-part series on how Twitter has worked as a successful networking and productivity tool.

Twitter now officially part of the live web

2007-12-30T23:07:00.000+01:00

Dennis Howlett comments that Twitter gain business cred after the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He notes that when Katrina struck, blogs sprung into action spreading the news, but Twitter has proven far faster at relaying reaction.

Read the rest of the story

Arizona Twitter Meetup

2007-12-30T22:49:00.001+01:00

Will you be there?

Evan William, The Economist and Google

2007-12-30T21:43:00.000+01:00

Evan Williams, fonder of twitter, wrote on his site:

"There's a story about me in The Economist, which is very flattering.

It has a couple misleading points, though, which I feel the need to clarify. Mostly about Google: I didn't "hate every minute" I was at Google (just some of them). I wasn't there "less than a year." (It was a year and eight months). I don't think Google tackles problems with "brute force." I think they're best at tackling known problems, but they do so very cleverly."

How to be ‘popular’ on Twitter

2007-12-29T22:21:00.000+01:00

Jeremiah explains how to become popular en twitter

1) Figure out why you want to use this tool. Is there a reason, an objective?

2) Integrate it throughout your online experience. You’ll notice that I ask people to add me from various posts, have it listed in my side role and on my facebook account.

3) Add people back. I follow everyone that follows me, I’m following more people than are following me, and that’s a sign that you want to listen to what others have to say.

4) Add value when you tweet. I’ve given up on my google reader link blog, instead, I leave links to what I think is interesting during the day.

5) Ask questions. I didn’t realize this was going to be one of the largest attributes on tweeterboard, so I got lucky.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Twitter. Now In Podcast Form.

2007-12-29T22:14:00.000+01:00

Listen to Vanessa!

Everything you want to know about twitter

2007-12-29T22:10:00.000+01:00

Read this...

Twitter tracking

2007-12-29T22:08:00.000+01:00

Twitter blog explains the tracking twitter:

track NYC

When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates. Don't want to receive anymore about NYC? Toggle it off with:

untrack NYC

You can create as many of these as you want, so send "track drinking tea", "track iphone", "track walking san francisco" and you'll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you're currently tracking? Send "track" alone (or "stats"). Turn them all off by sending "track off".

Tracking Twitter

2007-12-29T22:03:00.000+01:00

Twitter blog explain the "tracking twitter":

track NYC

When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates. Don't want to receive anymore about NYC? Toggle it off with:

untrack NYC

You can create as many of these as you want, so send "track drinking tea", "track iphone", "track walking san francisco" and you'll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you're currently tracking? Send "track" alone (or "stats"). Turn them all off by sending "track off".

Twitter was down for 6 days in 2007

2007-12-29T21:42:00.000+01:00

(RWW)
According to Royal Pingdom, Twitter was down for almost 6 days (5 days and 23 hours to be exact) in 2007. For any other company, this might spell doom, but not our LittleCo of the year! If anything, the service has gotten more popular in spite of the frequent down time. Those with "Twitterdiction" may have suffered through some nasty withdrawal when Twitter went offline for extended periods of time, but abandon the service they did not.

The 10 ways to use Twitter

2007-12-28T12:57:00.000+01:00

Good post of Dan York

2007-12-27T20:18:00.001+01:00

Twitter or not twitter

2007-12-26T16:30:00.000+01:00

That is the question. Interesting conversation on Techmeme.

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

2007-12-26T15:53:00.000+01:00

An important guide.

Part #1 - What is Twitter?
- Why You Should Start Using Twitter Right Now
- What is Twitter?
- What’s the Point?
- Twitter is a Broadcasting Service
- Twitter is a Mobile Communication Tool
Part #2 - Socialising With Twitter
- Is This Business or Personal?
- How Can Twitter Help My Business?
- How to Get Twitter Followers
- Useful Twitter Accounts to Follow
- Keeping the Noise Down
Part #3 - Using Twitter Properly
- Twitter Technicalities
- Twitetiquette
- Using Twitter for Marketing
Part #4 - Twitter Tools | Platform-Specific
- Mobile Tools
- Windows Tools
- Mac Tools
- Firefox Plugins
Part #5 - Twitter Tools | Web Applications
- Productivity / Useful Apps
- Map Mashups
- Just for Fun
Part #6 - Hacking Twitter
- Pimp Out Your Twitter Profile
- Funky Twitter Mashups
- Twitter Groups
Part #7 - Multiply Your Twitter Audience
- Publicize Your RSS Twitter Feed
- Twitter / BloggingMashup
- Third Party Twitter Integration
- How Twitter Promotion Can Go Viral

Newbies Guide to Twitter

2007-12-26T15:51:00.000+01:00

An interesting guide, very complete, by Chris Brogan.

One Laptop per Child on Twitter

2007-12-26T13:08:00.000+01:00

"The idea is every tweet with the word 'olpc' raises a euro. With the script up and running the first laptop had been bought within an hour! The original plan was to leave it at that, but it is so successful they keep going and by midnight (twelve hours later) 1463.50 euros has been collected. Three laptops were donated via other sources. In the end 2883.50 euros were collected, good for 21 laptops."
(Don Crowley)

Twitter: the good use of it

2007-12-26T12:55:00.000+01:00

Twitter can be usefull if you don't use it too much. Too much twit is boring. Too little is not good either.

It comes down to not posting too often and not posting stuff that’s not interesting to others. Posting things like, “Going to the bathroom again.”, or “Heading home from work.” is likely to make people stop following your account — or even unsubscribe from Twitter altogether.
(from Dmiessler)

Richard MacManus (RWW) is twitter addict

2007-12-26T12:40:00.000+01:00

"I'm a Twitter addict now (username is rww) and I've started to experiment using Tumblr as a personal blog."

He considere twitter one of the most interesting web apps of the year.

Twitter, one of the 6 most promising start-ups, according to the Guardian

2007-12-26T00:32:00.000+01:00

For The Guardian, twitter is of the six most promising firm of the Internet.

"Twitter is about the intimacy of details," said author David Weinberger. "Through it I see small events in the lives of friends about whom I otherwise might only learn the big events when we catch up after long intervals."

Crucially, it has also been picked up by businesses as an easy way to push messages out to their customers.

Co-founder Ev Williams helped popularise blogging with Blogger.com before selling it to Google in 2002.

Microbbloging (= twitter) is one of the Trends of 2007

2007-12-26T00:09:00.000+01:00

Steve Rubel noticed 3 trends on the Internet in 2007.

One of them is microblogging. Microblogging is twitter. Twitter is THE name you mention about microblogging.

Twitter occured more often than blogging on Google trends .
"What's fascinating here is that searches for Twitter surpassed for "blogging" in April and never looked back. Meanwhile, news volume for the two are neck and neck. Twitter is particularly strong in Japan. That said, interest in micro blogging has dropped off dramatically this (nearly 50% off their peak in the spring)." (Steve Rubel)

We can ask the question: is there money to make on blogging?
Microblogging is done for speacking with others, being linked with them. Only for pleasure?

Hello!

2007-12-26T00:00:00.000+01:00

"Twitter is magic", this is a blog about twitter.
Twitter is a magic tool. A magic world. A magic land of friend and conversations.
I like twitter. Do you like it?

Twitter, an explosion of conversations

2007-01-03T14:49:00.000+01:00

Great conversation on Techmeme.

"Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days…there’s something happening there.

I’ve also noticed and increase of new users over the past 30 days, feel free to add me as a friend, I will add you back." (Jeremiah)

Publishing 2.0: Why i stopped using twitter

Is the twitter follow a poor man’s personal intro?

Twitter= a conversation ecosystem

Jim Kukral,
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web,
innonate, broadstuff,
PR 2.0,
Fast Wonder Blog,
The Social Times,
Podcasting News,
mathewingram.com/work and Paul

Business Week, Twitter and conversation

2007-01-03T13:56:00.000+01:00

As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior