Simon Salt is CEO of marketing communications company the IncSlingers. He writes for www.simonsalt.com and Dad-O-Matic
You use twitter, email, IM and even your phone to stay in touch with your world. ....... Read more 13 hours ago
HOW TO: Auto-Follow People on twitter
Jon Wheatley, developer of the iPhone-ization site Interquash, doesnt appear to sleep. His latest new app, Twollow, was developed in a mere 24 hours for $150. Its a simple tool for auto-following pe ....... Read more 1 day ago
Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (twitter is Down)
After working flawlessly through the heavy tweeting of the elections, twitter is apparently having some uptime issues today. The site is rendering a ?Currently down for database maintenance? image ....... Read more 1 day ago
HOW NOT TO: Build Your twitter Community
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog.
In my previous post I discussed how to build your Twitte ....... Read more 2 days ago
WANTED: A Command Line for the Web
Kwyno, which launches in private beta next month, wants to be a command line for the web: a single box where you can type commands to navigate to web pages, search the web or check your friends updat ....... Read more 3 days ago
twitterspeak: 66 twitter Terms You Don?t Need to Know
Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call twitterspeak.
The trick, in most instances, is to take th ....... Read more 4 days ago
twitterank Might Not Have Been a Phishing Scam, But It Was Fascinating
This week has seen an incredible amount of interest around twitterank, a new tool that popped up that computes a numerical score of ? something.
At first, no one was really too sure what twitterank w ....... Read more 5 days ago
Is twitterank Ranking Your Popularity Or Stealing Your Password?
Something called ?twitterank? has been #1 on twitter?s trending topics for much of the afternoon, and a flurry of tweets have been coming across along the lines of ?my twitterank is 30.35!? with a lin ....... Read more 7 days ago
twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow.
Popacular, a site that measures popularity of websites according to the number of related tweets, has a huge counter that counts the overall number of tweets. I dont know how accurate this thing can ....... Read more 7 days ago
Mars Phoenix Has Tweeted its Last Tweet
A couple of days ago I wrote about unusual entities that tweet. Well, one of those entities has just fallen silent: Phoenix, little spacecraft that landed in the arctic regions of Mars looking for tra ....... Read more 9 days ago
HOW TO: Build Community on twitter
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog.
Your twitter community is your life line. The strength o ....... Read more 9 days ago
Hurricane Paloma: 6 Web Tools to Track The Storm
Hurricane Paloma made landfall in southern Cuba this weekend, bringing 120 mph winds and heavy rain. Where can you turn for the latest updates on the storm? The web, of course.
During the onslaught ....... Read more 10 days ago
twitterThings: 6 Unusual Entities That Tweet
Think only humans can tweet? Think again; besides the endless array of RSS bots, theres a couple of odd authors on the popular microblogging tool twitter. Theres a whole bunch of them, actually: f ....... Read more 13 days ago
@Al_Gore is the Real Al Gore
Last night we wondered if the twitter users @theREALalgore was in fact the real Al Gore. The concensus of the commentors seems to be that there was no way in heck that it was, and that was further con ....... Read more 13 days ago