Great analysis of how “Twitter Trends” work, with plenty of data to help ease the “CENSORSHIP!” cries of the conspiratorially-minded.
Atlantic article on the Web Ecology Project’s ace Socialbots game, where teams of software bots “played” to influence regular Twitter users.
“There’s a lot of potential for a lot of evil here,” admits Hwang. “But there’s also a lot of potential for a lot of good.”
Tim’s 5-minute talk at last week’s Ignite SF, covering his recently run social-battlebots contest. Must watch!
Great analysis by Robin Sloan of a sizable Twitter hashtag meme. Size of followership != size of readership.
or “Things to bear in mind when taking advice from a small, Asian girl”
Splendidly implemented viral flow from Dropbox. Hand holds you through spamming your Twitter & Facebook feeds with the carrot of extra free storage.
This weekend, I got retweeted by a top chef from off the telly (after praising the creamed corn at his new restaurant)(!), and one of my all-time favourite indie musicians of all time (after buying a t-shirt from her). All hail the power of Twitter.
Top notch hack — Wiring up an Apple //e to display messages (and avatars) from Twitter. Tempts me to break out a ZX Spectrum emulator…
Made me sad that I didn’t know they were in town until they were already here. I’d have loved to have protested outside Twitter with a “God Hates Failwhales” sign.
Thoughtful and funny piece by Baratunde Thurston.
Features push notifications of your tweets being faved, so you can have your ego stroked IN REAL TIME!
Twitter is down, after reportedly being hacked by Iran.
I guess the hackers are pissed at how few people still have a green avatar.
Lovely lovely lovely! I’ve been using COLOURlovers patterns to decorate my Twitter profile for some time. Their new “themeleon” lets you customize and tweak in-place then upload directly to Twitter.
This evening, @cheever saw an automated retweet by @02138now of a tweet by @Sooz containing a picture of me wearing the Twitshirt of the tweet I posted last October which helped me leave Current.
He, of course, twittered about it. And I just bought his tweet as a t-shirt.
Congratulations, Twitter, for building one of the world’s leading “What t-shirt is Rod Begbie wearing right now?” systems.
Another URL shortener gets shuttered. As it turns out, unless you slap frames and shite over the links you bounce users to, there’s no business model. Another example of why I run rdbgb.us: I am solely responsible for keeping the links in my Twitter posts alive, without having to worry about a third-party collapsing.
Great report from a group of Boston-area smartfolks led by Tim Hwang, on what’s been going on on Twitter over the last few weeks.
By Tony Stubblebine, who was at Odeo when Twitter launched. “Rails was never the problem”.
“When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.” There’s a whole lesson in User Experience right here!
I'm Rod Begbie -- A 35-year-old Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.
