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I Liked Twitter More When It Was Underground

4 Mar 2009

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Tongue in cheek
Twitter has really blown up this past month and has been talked about on just about every mainstream news front. I had a conversation with my brother the other day and he even said “I’ve been seeing people talk about it, but I’ve been wondering what it is”. [...]

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Tags: mainstream, Microblogging, twitter, web2.0

Twitter 2008: Get Used To It (Goodbye IM/Track)

In: geek

12 Oct 2008

Last month, I blogged my return to Twitter due to the fact that the Track feature was dead. I saw the responses Twitter gave Steve Gillmor at Bearhug camp and determined they were prolonging the obvious: Track is dead, and they’re not bringing it back.
Yesterday, I learned that Twitter has officially [...]

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Tags: im, Microblogging, track, tweetdeck, twitter, twitterspy

After 4 Months, Has Twitter Improved?

In: geek

10 Sep 2008

It’s still not common knowledge among my online friends that I left Twitter on June 06, 2008. It’s been about 4 months since I did, and it seems like a lot has changed. Twitter is receiving praise for their improved “uptime” over the past months. Some have gone on record to [...]

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Tags: Identi.ca, im, Microblogging, Software, track, twitter, Utility, web2.0

Kwippy Offers Stability First

In: geek

5 Jul 2008

Twitter’s architectural problems are well known. Many of us in the social networking scene have never been so focused on what’s under the hood of a particular service. While I do have a great deal of performance testing and tuning experience, I have never seen it pushed so hard in the social web. [...]