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Why Joining 38,943 People is Bad

Nov. 5, 2009

Copyblogger is among the blogs I’ve read for about 18 months. Not every day, not every week; but it’s always among my list of subscribed and go-to sites for useful advice. I’m a Brian Clark groupie.
His writing aside, I don’t approve of his focusing on the number of people following him on Twitter as a [...]

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Reviewing Twitterville

Nov. 2, 2009

“Wherever you live, chances are you think your government could do a better job,” writes Shel Israel in the opening sentence of chapter 13 of Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods.
Shel explains the background to the book’s title, published earlier in 2009, in the introduction, some 200 pages earlier:
Twitterville connotes a [...]

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Twitter Grading Over 30 Days

Nov. 1, 2009

One month ago, I explained why applications like Twitter Grader were meaningless, including the following example:
Returning to twitter.grader.com/ariherzog now, I see:
Let’s see what happens in another month.

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What is the Cost of Online Friends?

Oct. 26, 2009

Shelly Kramer inspired me with this Twitter message about the joy of translating her online friendships to offline encounters:

IRL is shorthand for “in real life.”
My response: Big whoop.
I mean, yeah, it’s nice and all and I appreciate the concept as I have formed many friendships and business partnerships as the direct result of online [...]

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Your Guide to Learning Twitter, Part 1

Oct. 18, 2009

Want to know what Twitter is about?
Begin by watching this informative video:

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Filmed in March 2008 by Lee LeFever, not much has changed–with the exception my friends and I tend to use it less for what we’re doing and more for what we’re accomplishing and thinking.
Here’s a snapshot from [...]

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How to Discover the Truth

Oct. 17, 2009

Scanning recent Twitter messages by people I follow, I noticed this bit by Crystal King:

Curious, I clicked the link and was redirected to a blog post about a woman named Nic who was separated from her toddler at Atlanta’s airport because of a pacifier clip that set off the x-ray machine. According to the story, [...]

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Proof Why Twitter Statistical Applications Fail

Oct. 14, 2009

There are dozens–hundreds?–of Twitter statistical applications, but they all fail.
The presumption with every statistical program is the username being tracked is a new name, but in my reincarnated Twitter example, I have a new name that is the same as an older name–and the applications assume I never changed.
For instance, Tweet Stats shows me this [...]

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