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Twitter Redesign Finally Goes Live

Back in July I was one of the first to break the news about a Twitter redesign that accidentally went live well before its time. FYI: TechCrunch copied and pasted practically my entire post about this. The redesign was available for all of about 3 minutes with only a handful of people able to grab [...]

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TinyTwitter Gets Pics and GPS

TinyTwitter is a Twitter application for Windows Mobile phones and Crackberries. It’s one of the best Twitter apps for WinMobile and the one that I prefer to use on my Motorola Q9c.
Today, the devs of TinyTwitter have pushed out a great new update with one feature I’ve been waiting for since I saw it [...]

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Scaling Web 2.0 – Reaching The Limits

Last week Twitter implemented a limit on the number of people you’re allowed to follow. I’ve seen numerous numbers, but the common limit seems to be 2k users. While the limit is a work in progress, that’s a lot of (hopefully) great conversation to go around. However, for major players in the web game, [...]

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Why Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream

To a certain extent Twitter is a mass failure. Andy DeSoto points out hints of Twitter’s failure thus far with “What the iPhone Application Store tells us about Twitter”. While Twitter is a major hit within our web bubble, it’s a major failure in the real world.
       
Twitter and Mainstream Success
Now don’t get me [...]

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Looking At Twitter’s Latest Bump Differently

Today, I hopped online to news that people were noticed that their number of Twitter followers/followings were completely out of sync. Louis Gray is reporting a significant loss along with a ton of other people, myself included. However, let’s really examine this situation because people are up in arms about losing a patch of followers. [...]

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Twitter’s New Redesign

I just logged into Twitter and after sending a direct message from the Twitter homepage my screen showed this:
    

At first I thought Firefox was going haywire on me. However, this is not the case. It seems Twitter is testing a new theme design and one that I’m not quite sure how I feel [...]

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Why I’d Leave Twitter – Qik Video Response

This video was done as a response to Robert Scoble’s video about why he’s not leaving Twitter. To sum my video up, I’d leave Twitter because for the past couple of weeks the very things that makes Twitter so important and so desirable was inaccessible to me: conversations and community. Check out the video. [...]

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Twitter Is Not Just For Geeks and Definitely Not For Money

The truth is, twitter is for geeks. Actually, it’s not even for geeks, it’s for uber-geeks. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I use twitter myself and have at times been called a geek. But to someone who uses the Internet for business (gasp!) and to make money, Twitter is often just a [...]

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The Problem With Leaving Twitter

There are many posts going around about Twitter today. All of them are great reads that I recommend. In one post, Steven Hodson of Winextra and Mashable (congrats Steven!) pointed out how similar Twitter can be to Windows and how we just don’t want to live without either one. He’s absolutely right. However, just [...]

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Is Twitter Changing Real Life Social Interactions?

Last week I had the pleasure of flying out to Portland for Ignite Portland 3. I had a fabulous time and met some really awesomesauce people including one of my biggest idols Marshall Kirkpatrick, fellow Grand Effect Network member and now team writer for ReadWriteWeb, Frederic of The Last Podcast, and a host of [...]

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