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A little bit of twitter history from 21/07/2007

Feb 16, 2015

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHello Twitter-ers! As you may already know, Obvious is the parent company of Twitter and it’s never a dull day around here. Today our little building is abuzz with activity surrounding an announcement that Odeo (another Obvious product) is ready for a new home. We’re entertaining offers from potential buyers because Odeo…

Threaded conversations and community

Dec 7, 2014

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Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom the 1970s to 2007 we had threaded conversations through bulletin boards, forums, groups and other centralising discussion points. For a brief window of about two years conversations became so captivating that people wanted to meet in person as strong friendships were established. By 2009-2010 the threaded and personal conversations between web…

New unfollow out

Aug 8, 2013

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in twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter is a dynamic and social conversation tool which ignores borders, timezones and continents. The more time you give to the website the more you get out of it. As more and more people join the site so following passive people makes less and less sense. Yesterday I downloaded justunfollow out…

Geneva tweetup at the Bristol

Mar 27, 2011

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in Geneva, social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter two years of online interactions I finally met certain Geneva twitter users. The tweetup took place at the Bristol Hotel in Geneva. There was a good group of people and they were what you would exepect from a tweetup. It was organised by bristolgva and here is some of the…

The small matter of Cairo

Feb 5, 2011

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in mobile streaming, observation, social media, social media living room, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat makes the situation in Cairo so interesting is the number of media outlets that you can use as sources. From 24 hour news channels like France 24, Al Jazeera, BBC World and others to individual people with mobile phones. For France 24 you have three languages to chose from, with…

Ten reasons to give up on twitter

Jun 23, 2010

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richard

in social media, twitter, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again I have deleted my twitter account. Here are ten reasons to give up on twitter. 1. Europe is neutral about the site. If you want friendships with people an ocean away join. 2. Whenever you want to post some technical problem means you have to post five times 3. If…

Here is the Nouvo video where you see me speak about twitter.

Apr 19, 2009

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in twitter, Uncategorized

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd there you have it, me speaking about twitter. As promised – update – I’m happy with all the positive reactions this video is having. Thank you.

Happy and slightly nervous – as would be expected.

Apr 18, 2009

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in twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNouvo is a show I have enjoyed watching many times, aired on Swiss television and in podcast form until recently. They are changing format and appearing on the website and news programs from now on. What makes this particularly interesting is that they left a comment on this blog, asking to…

It’s a question of Gravity – Twitter on S60

Apr 10, 2009

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in mobile, N95, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGravity is a twitter client for the s60 and I recently installed it on my N95 and so far I’m very happy with it. With an intuitive interface it makes being logged in to two twitter accounts and one identica account very easy. What is especially nice is that you select…

The twitter schedule – updated

Mar 18, 2009

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in twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor two years I’ve been using twitter and during that time I have spent far too much time on the site. As a result I built many friendships. Always paying attention to twitter, even when mobile was a great way of using twitter in the past, but due to people having…

Category: twitter