Bob Morris @ Jun 9th 2008 03:30 - Category: Unfiled Tags: twitter, WWDC;
Twitter, who has had more than a few outages of late, is making major efforts to be able to handle an expected ten times normal volume during Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Apple WWDC today at 10 am PDT.
Laughing Squid has a helpful list of sites that will have live coverage.
Bloggers: Prepare for the Mother of All Tweet Storms.
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 14:13 - Category: Unfiled Tags: twitter;
Twitter had some growing pain burps these past few days. They upgraded the software to provide faster service, and found many Tweets weren’t getting through in a timely manner. There was much gnashing of teeth as Twitter addicts went into forced semi-withdrawal.
The problems have been mostly resolved and TechCrunch sums up what we’ve learned.
But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occurred: I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.
Their monopoly power via the network effect they’ve earned means they don’t have to worry much about downtime. We’ll all still be sitting here patiently, waiting for it to return.
Not only does Twitter have a hugely devoted (and fast growing) following, the core is early adopter geeks. And where they are now, the mainstream of the Net often follows.
For those who may not know, Twitter is a free service that exists somewhere between IM and blogging. You can send messages (called Tweets) up to 140 characters. Whoever is following you reads them, ditto for Tweets from whoever you follow. You can read them online, with third party software, with IM, or with SMS on a cell phone.
During our upcoming trip across the country moving to S.F. I plan to have my cell phone tweeting away and to be posting updates as we go. I’m polizeros on Twitter.
Bob Morris @ Apr 5th 2008 22:14 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: Obama, twitter;
Twitter is primarily early adopter geeks, so it’s quite extraordinary that a politician would have the most followers. Or that mostly libertarian geeks would be interested in him.
Bob Morris @ Apr 5th 2008 06:30 - Category: Unfiled Tags: twitter;
Quick useful video explaining how Twitter works.
Bob Morris @ Apr 4th 2008 10:18 - Category: Blogging Tags: twitter;
Twitter is the first social networking tool that I really like and also find genuinely useful. It exists somewhere between IM and blogging. Messages can be up to 120 characters. They go out to whoever is following you. Right now, I follow about 50 people and about the same number follow me.
It’s free, of course. You can tell it to track certain words or phrases too, like “Obama” or “climate change.” You can view your tweets on the Twitter website, with IM, or on your cell phone via texting. You can send snippets of blog posts (or any RSS) to Twitter with Twitter Feed. So, the first 120 characters of posts here automatically get sent to Twitter without me doing anything.
Why is this useful? One reason is because I frequently now learn about breaking news on Twitter first. Plus it’s fascinating and fun to see what everyone is doing. I follow tech geeks like Scoble as well as financial bloggers like Paul Kedrosky. There’s also BBC breaking news and lots more.
I’m polizeros on Twitter. To follow me, just click Follow under my picture.
Read/Write Web has an excellent list of the growing list of Twitter clients while Twitter has a wiki with lots more third-party Twitter tools.
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 15:08 - Category: Blogging Tags: twitter, twitter feed;
Twitter Feed sends your blog posts to Twitter for you on a schedule of your choosing. Thus, you can find new audiences for your blog.
Twitter is the first social networking tool I’ve found that is simultaneously fun, powerful, easy to use, and not kludgy. It’s sort of like a multi-casting IM or something in between IM and email, with a limit of 160 characters per message.
(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s ok too!)
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