101 Lists

I just noticed that I’m on 101 Twitter lists. Lists are a new feature that let you group people you follow any way you like, publicly or privately. I have a few lists myself: Jersey people, funny people, creative people- and a couple private ones that include the folks I like to follow a little [...]

via The Onion: How to Stalk your College-Age Kids with Facebook and Twitter

I’ve been spending some time researching how parents and their college kids interact on Facebook, but The Onion sums it up quite nicely (PS- The Onion is parody…) Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

Twitter’s new front page

puppy - Twitter Search

Twitter has just released a new front page design that puts Twitter search front and center. This makes Twitter content more accessible for people who don’t have accounts. Of course, anyone could use Twitter search before but now it’s more in your face that you don’t need an account to take advantage. I wonder how [...]

NY Times Story on Marketing Small Businesses with Twitter

“We think of these social media tools as being in the realm of the sophisticated, multiplatform marketers like Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, but a lot of these supersmall businesses are gravitating toward them because they are accessible, free and very simple,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst who studies the Internet’s influence on shopping and local businesses. [...]

We the Tweeple

People don’t get Twitter. No, I know you do, I’m talking about those other people. The ones who look at me like this O_o (see what I did there?) when I say I’ve been using Twitter regularly for over two years. The ones who say “Who cares what I’m doing and why should I care [...]

Twitter Won't Make You Rich…

Yesterday I met a bunch of local people who use Twitter. I already know a bunch of local people who use Twitter, but these were (mostly) new to me. Was fun meeting them all! The first thing that struck me was that there was an agenda! And a scheduled speaker! Usually we just pull out [...]

A Lesson Learned Via Server Logs & Twitter

Last night I was going through my server logs for Pixel Currents, curious to see who was visiting the site and how they found it. I noticed a few people had clicked through from a couple twitter accounts belonging to people I don’t know, so of course I headed over to Twitter to see what [...]