Tag: "Twitter"
Want to Write the Perfect Follow Friday Tweet? Here’s How.
For those of you who use Twitter, the weekly Follow Friday ritual is a time-honored way of telling your followers about some of the worthy people you follow. It’s also a horror show of tweets that are nothing but a list of as many user names as the sender could jam into 140 characters preceded [...]
I’ve Been Profiled and Profiling is Wrong…
I first met up-and-coming blogger Glen Asbury at Blog Con a couple of months ago (you can actually see Glen in this post, threatening a rapper throwdown). I took the opportunity of our meeting to tell him how much I enjoyed reading his “Twitter Personality of the Week” posts. Glen hit on the idea of [...]
I’m a Top 50 Interesting Person? Err…Yes! Yes, I Am!
Over the past couple days, I’ve noticed my number of Twitter followers sneaking up. One day I’m up ten or so, the next another 8 or twelve. It’s puzzled me because I’ve basically reached a popularity plateau around 2,900 followers and, since I don’t really stump for more and I don’t participate in the Twitter [...]
Hugo’s Twitter-Cotta Army
In 1974, some Chinese farmers found what became one of the greatest archeological finds of my lifetime, an army of terra cotta warriors. The statues, over 8,000 of them, were buried to serve as Emperor Qin’s army in the afterlife, to help him conquer yet another empire in a new world. Hugo Chavez doesn’t quite [...]
The Delivery Presents – My First Audio Listener Mailbag!
What’s this? An episode of The Delivery not released on a Wednesday and so much shorter than the others? What sort of deviltry can this be? While working on my first promo for the show, I asked one of my friends, who I knew from Twitter, to join SMP Mike and I on Skype to [...]
Twitter Down, Workplace Productivity and Number of Attentive Pedestrians Up
If your workplace seems more productive today, and you notice that folks walking down the street seem to be staring down at their smartphones less than usual, there’s a reason for it. Twitter is down due to a rather large DDOS attack. I say it’s large because it would have to be to bring Twitter [...]
Take a “Trip” to Tehran to Help Iran
If you’re looking for a simple way you can give a small bit of assistance to the Iranian protesters, here’s an idea I’ve seen making its way around Twitter. If you use Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. [...]
So, Do We Call it Tweet Street Now?
This is a pretty good April Fool’s Day joke made better because it’s the Guardian. had it been the New York Times, it would have been a much more difficult joke to pull off successfully since so much of their alleged news coverage boils down to “Dems rule, Rethugs drool. LOL ROFLCOPTER!!1!!”. Kind of surprised [...]
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