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Amanda Palmer tweeted about her band The Dresden Dolls, got a flash mob going, and the next thing you know, she’s selling t-shirts, having an auction, and then a twitter-invitation only gig. total made this month using Twitter = $19,000 total made from my huge-ass ben-folds produced-major-label solo album this year = $0 Last night on the twitter stream for #iranelection, there was a sudden burst of tweets about how tanks were entering Tehran. Others asked for confirmations or photos. None appeared. Then some military folks opined that tanks don’t do well in urban areas and in fact are quite vulnerable. Then others tracked the tank tweets back [...] Mashable has the numbers and graphs Twitter: 221,744 “Iran” tweets in one hour Blogs: 2,250,000 blog posts on Iran in 24 hours YouTube: 3000 Iran videos uploaded in one day These trends clearly demonstrate that social media has been front-and-center in the Iran election protests. The Iranian government has reportedly been trying to [...] Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance from Iran daylight hours to Wed 1:30am Iran time specifically because Twitter is so important in getting Iran news to the outside world. Andrew Sullivan played a major role in mobilizing people to ask Twitter to reschedule. And they quickly did. Everyone, take a bow. This is the real time [...] Topsy ranks their search results by how often a link is mentioned on Twitter and by who is doing the linking, an approach similar unlike what Google does. The results can be surprisingly useful, another example of the real-time web in action. Mark Cuban For the 1st time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google. The total number of people coming to my blog is increasing. The percentage of people who find it via Google is declining. Significantly. This trend will only continue and is probably not reversible. I [...] Chris Pirillo recommends Spreadtweet which looks exactly like an Excel spreadsheet and can even be customized to match your version of Office. From the Smart Mobs blog, on the WSJ article about Twitter. It seems to me that Howard’s [Rheingold's] original insight which he called “smart mobs” is proving to be a fundamental phenomenon of the 21st century. Twittering does the smart mobbing/flocking at a granular level. Figuring it all out is ongoing, as this highlight [...] Tech publisher Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein have just published The Twitter Book, a 240 pg. detailing how best to use Twitter. You can get a PDF or print copy for just $15.99 |  | ||||
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