Tonight marks the third Tweet-UP hosted by Billy Fairchild aka. Tw3nty3ight. So far, these tweet up events have been a blast to attend, each lasting on average 2-3 hours. The tweet up is a place for all of those on twitter who don’t have the luxury of attending a local event to come online and [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "twitter"
Waaa I Can’t Follow More Than 2,000 People
Earlier this morning, Twitter was buzzing due to the fact that it had been discovered that Twitter had limited accounts to only 2,000 followers. According to Mashable, Pownce has filed suit by also limiting accounts to only 2,000 followers.
While A-listers also known as early adopters could be held responsible for providing these new social tools [...]
Will Plurk Kill Twitter
In last months poll, I asked if you would listen to a daily WordPress podcast. And here is how the poll turned out.
Well, I don’t think I’ll be doing anything in regards to a daily podcast. I have more on my plate at this time then I did when I started the poll. However, I [...]
June 8th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
Twitter Implements New Limitations
According to the StopTwitterSpam website, the folks at Twitter have updated their Help Page to reflect new changes that have gone into effect in regards to Following and Updating limits. It looks like these limitations have probably gone into effect to not only lessen the strain on the overall infrastructure of Twitter, but to also [...]
June 8th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
Unpopular As Bad As Too Popular
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb published an intriguing article the other day that dove into the question, How Many Friends Are Too Many? In his article, Josh takes the example of Jason Calacanis who follows 26,672 people (now at 29,978) and suggests that there is no way in hell that Jason can actually participate in conversations [...]
May 31st, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
Pitch Consisting Of 140 Characters Or Less
Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com has released a WordPress plugin entitled WP-TwitterPitch. The idea behind the plugin is to tidy up your email inbox allowing those from Public Relation companies to pitch bloggers through twitter, forcing the PR representatives to get their point across in 140 characters or less. A couple things worth noting involving this [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
PicoBuzz - Another Twitter Buzz Chart
There are literally tons of people using Twitter these days. However, keeping track of the buzz is difficult unless you use a website such as PicoBuzz.com. PicoBuzz.com is setup in a similar fashion as music billboards. The chart showcases the buzzword, current spot, last spot, and at least five people who mentioned that buzzword on [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
Twitter Blog Confirms Downtime Issues
Having a look at the official Twitter blog, Twitter has announced that they have detected errant API usage through their Jabber resources.
We found an errant API project eating way too much of our Jabber (a flavor of instant messenger) resources. This activity (which we’ve corrected) had an affect of overloading our main database, resulting [...]
Twitter Gets The Bird Flu
It looks like the time has arrived for Twitter to step up to the plate and do something about this spam problem. Over this past weekend, I received over 20 different email notifications that so and so was following me on twitter. Only 3 of those people were legit. The rest of them were spammers [...]
April 15th, 2008 | Jeffro | 13 comments | Continued
Subscribe To Posts
Subscribe Via Email
Stay Updated Via Twitter
Loading ...
Justin Tadlock on 
Jacob Santos on 
marti garaughty on 
Misty Cryer-Davidson on 
Jeffro on 
grande on 
John Kolbert
Damn Hairy Human
Andrew
Josh Budde
prof kienstra
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
Susan
PJ