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  • Recommending my twitter friends with MrTweet

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst I listened to MrTweet speaking on the Net@Nite podcast from several month ago I found it interesting that he spoke of the re-tweet as giving credit to those you follow who share some interesting links. If you spend a lot of time on twitter though after seeing the same retweet…

  • Twitterfall

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you love watching trends on twitter then twitterfall is for you. It takes into account the top ten trends or so and automatically updates with the latest tweets from the whole of twitter. It’s great becaues you can see the trends in real time without following six thousand people. A…

  • Don’t rely on twitter in case of Emergency.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSnowboarding is a fun and safe sport as long as you know what you’re doing. Occasionally of course we push the limits. A few years ago whilst snowboarding with someone around La Dole we decided that rather than go back down via St Cerque we would snowboard home by passing over the…

  • Whether Friends count more than followers

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAs you know I’ve been working on unfollowing more and more people over the past few weeks because I felt I was missing the tweets by those who want to participate actively with me. The consequence is that I’ve found twitter to be more sociable once more. According to a recent article…

  • How to Make Friends and Get The Most Out Of Twitter.

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesTwitter is a multiplatform social chatroom that allows you to converse with people around the world from anywhere in near to real time. It is knowing a rapid growth and so here are a few guidelines to getting started. 140 Characters If you thought 160 characters for SMS were limited then this…

  • Why it’s a waste of time to follow certain people

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this article there are recommendations about who you should follow on twitter and I must admit I followed almost every one of them. I have unfollowed everyone of them except one. Chris Brogan. He’s the person whom I feel is most likely to answer a tweet directed at him. If you’re…

  • Counting follower mass by absolute tweet number

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear developers, As the number of people on twitter increases and as people get into the thousands of followers I would like to demonstrate that those thousands of followers does not amount to much. Instead I would like to count follower mass by the absolute number of each follower, added to…

  • Re-tweeting demonstrates that twitter is broken, here’s why

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving used Friendfeed intensly for the last two days and through reading this post I believe that twitter is on it’s way out for early adopters for one fundamental reason. The re-tweet. Twitter is over simplified for anything but IRC like conversation and as a result of this for passionate users…

  • Geneva Tweetup during the LIFT09 Conference – Who’s Interested?

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my biggest frustrations at the moment as a user of twitter is that I can’t meet with the people I chat with on a regular basis. As a result of this I am trying to find as many Geneva based twitter users as possible to organise a tweetup. There are…

  • The Forbes Intern is not wrong about twitter in Europe

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaw this post on techcrunch and the intern is not wrong. I left a comment on the blog. I also decided to leave that comment here. Get out of London, get out of Paris. Get to the provinces and the small towns. get into the french speaking, Lithuanian speaking, portuguese portions…