I was prepping for a presentation at College of the Holy Cross and noticed that Twitter had, at least for posting updates, ground to a halt this morning. There are a lot of folks in the social media space positioning themselves as Twitter experts, Twitter consultants, Twitter this or thats, and that’s cool. Here’s the…
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The airline industry’s boarding and deplaning process is, generally speaking, about as organized as an overweight cattle stampede. If you’ve been on a plane recently, as I’ve been, you know the pain and frustration of watching fellow passengers who seem to pack a couple of freight containers in their carry on, then are surprised when…
Anyone old enough to remember the classic Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Got a whale of a FAIL to tell ya lads, A whale of a FAIL or two ‘Bout the flying birds and tweeting herds Of days and nights with endless nerds A whale of a FAIL and it’s all true I…
Well, Twitter has flipped me the bird. When I sent in a support request, asking what this was about, a few folks pointed me to a wiki talking about rate limiting – i.e. preventing certain actions for a period of time, like queries to the API. However, after 4 days, things didn’t get better, so…
Who is a social media expert? During our drive to Podcasters Across Borders, Chris Brogan and I discussed an awful lot of things (14 hours in the car will do that) and one of those things is expertise. From my perspective, expertise follows a very distinct, well defined pattern that is measurable and obvious. If…
The Most Effective Marketing A Non-Profit Can Do Is Build The Database I’ve been seeing more and more “brand awareness” campaigns, especially for non-profits and social good organizations lately, and I genuinely have to ask – what’s the value of that? From tweets on Twitter saying “Raise awareness of the plight of…” to advertisements on…
Image via Wikipedia UPDATE: As of September 1, 2010, Twitter has nuked functions like this from orbit. I now recommend you download and install the paid TweetAdder software that does substantially the same thing but is compliant with Twitter’s OAuth protocols. The old post is kept below only for historical purposes.
Image via Wikipedia For fun, I logged into Twitter tonight and checked the followers page. To my great surprise, it seems as though about half of the people I thought I was following are not, so it’s an evening of re-syncing Twitter to follow friends old and new who I thought I was in sync…
