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TweetDeck ups the Twitter List ante for all Twitter apps

by Tris Hussey on November 30, 2009 · 2 comments

in Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, News and Info, Social Media, Web 2.0

When Twitter added lists not only was there a race to build (and get on) lists, but Twitter clients to add support for them. Over the past few weeks I’ve watched Hootsuite, Nambu, and others add Twitter Lists support all the while waiting for my favourite Twitter tool, TweetDeck to add support. This morning the wait is over and I think TweetDeck has upped the ante for all Twitter clients, and they did it by making themselves less essential, but more valuable at the same time.
One of the things I’ve [...]

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Twitter hasn’t peaked–Risks of blindly reading data

by Tris Hussey on November 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in Cool tools, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0

It seems that the “Twitter in the news” cycle is set to a two week rotation. Maybe the law of conservation of twitter news …
Regardless, Twitter was in the news recently that Twitter has peaked because its Comscore traffic data dipped in October. Oh how the pundits, jumped on that. Well the pundits who didn’t really read the data. CNET shows that at least someone is reading the data with a critical eye:

It seems that these figures, blessedly inconsistent as they are, are not taking account of all the third-party [...]

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Twitter is what you make of it

by Tris Hussey on June 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Yet another post about Twitter’s much studied demographics. Like most cool, new (or newly mainstream) things people want to define it. To study it. To dissect it like a hapless amphibian and figure out if by looking inside we can understand it as a whole.
We’ve heard about the 60% drop off rate (which means that a 40% stay, which is still pretty damn good and there is no metric for people who come back in a couple months) and now we’re hearing that the majority of people don’t tweet, but [...]

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Mac Twitter Apps Showdown: TweetDeck, Nambu, Tweetie for Mac

by Tris Hussey on April 20, 2009 · 12 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media

Beyond the post Oprah-on-Twitter hype, the majority of folks I know and chat with on a regular basis are tweeting business as usual. So while Ashton, CNN, and Oprah were getting headlines and new Mac Twitter app was being chatted about in my Twitter stream.
Tweetie for Mac is a desktop app brought to you by the same folks who brought us Tweetie the iPhone app. The first public beta dropped today, and despite my attempts to get it early, I had to wait until today to give it a try. [...]

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Twitter hits the mainstream and a crossroads: Time for an open server

by Tris Hussey on April 17, 2009 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

So an actor named Ashton gets a million followers and a talk show host named Oprah joins Twitter and the world rejoices. Twitter has hit that magic point of becoming mainstream.
Of course, there isn’t universal cheering, but that is to be expected. I’m sure the academic community was aghast when AOL users could send and receive email from the Internet proper.
The questions on my mind were echoed by Fredric on RWW:

Can the Mainstream Handle Twitter?
On its own site, Twitter will also have to explain its utility better if it wants [...]

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Tweetdeck getting funding isn’t crazy, it’s the next move forward: stuff that works

by Tris Hussey on January 16, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, RSS, Web 2.0

Yeah I love TweetDeck , it’s open all the time and one of the first things I installed on my netbook. TweetDeck is the only way I’ve found I can get much out of Twitter at all. Iain is a very talented guy and eventhough I didn’t “get” TweetDeck at first, now I do.
Om Malik thinks Iain getting $500k in angel funding is a sing of Twitter insanity, I have to strongly disagree.

[From Tweetdeck Funding…a Sign of Twitter Insanity]

TweetDeck freakin’ works. Everyone who I’ve turned on to it [...]

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Could a Twitter app become a light RSS reader?

by Tris Hussey on November 18, 2008 · 9 comments

in RSS, Web 2.0

Since getting hooked on TweetDeck over the summer,it has become an indispensable part of my “infocentre”. In my TweetDeck setup I have a column just for these “news” tweets, just for info streams from posts as Mark describes:
The interesting thing is if you follow enough bloggers on Twitter using an auto-feed service, your Twitter stream starts to look lot like a streaming RSS reader with new posts popping up on a regular basis. Getting notifications about new blog posts is a useful alternative to your RSS reader because blog posts [...]

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