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Category: <span>twitter</span>

Category: twitter

Is Twitter just a million moronic conversations

Once watching the TV was a complete passive act of slovenly consumption. The evening show was watched while slumped on the couch all senses dulled by the blue rays of the box. Now watching the TV is only one part of watching the TV. In face “TV events” can be enjoyed by hooking into the Twitter firehose and looking for the right hashtag. During the Logies, an Australian TV award show for all US folks, I noticed that the digital hipsters at the event were tweeting, that people on the couch were tweeting, that journalists were tweeting. Everybody was talking …

Twitter growing up through acquisitions and advertising

You’re a small start-up. You’ve invested heaps of time and money in your twitter client which will be supported by advertising and suddenly Twitter throw a spanner at your well greased wheel. What do you do? Last week Twitter announced that they had acquired atebits, the folks behind the Twitter iPhone app tweetie. As soon as they did there were a heap of tweets lamenting that Twitter had done so and saying “I feel sorry for all devs”. There are people forming unions and grabbing the pitchforks to storm the barricades. They are talking about creating a new open platform …