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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "twitter"
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
SideBlog - Home Grown Twitter For WordPress
As you know, I’m a fan of the WinExtra.com blog, authored by Steven Hodson and on his blog, I’ve noticed an area of his sidebar called Misc. Thoughts. For whatever reason, I always find myself going down the sidebar, reading these mini posts which looks familiar to the type of content you would find on [...]
December 18th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
Im In Ur Networkz Mining Ur Data
This post was inspired by a Steve Rubel Twitter post. I promise that I’ll try not to mess with LOLr cat fever anymore after this post.
October 9th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
Bugroff Welcome To The AntiSocial
I found this image and site mentioned on TheGlobalGeekPodcast blog and thought it was so hilarious, that I would share it here as well. It’s interesting that I just read a blog post over at ChrisBrogan.com that discussed the overall feeling that social media was nothing but a waste of time. Then, I took a [...]
October 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
Is Ticketapp The Twitter Yappd Killer
TicketApp compares themselves to Twitter but I’d say they are a lot more than Twitter. TicketApps is a Tumblelog, todo list, note taker, image publisher, bug tracker and so much more. While Twitter may lay claim to the word “Tweets“, Ticketapp messages or postings are simply called “Tickets” Because this new service is like so [...]
September 27th, 2007 | Jeffro | 8 comments | Continued
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