I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user but I have long argued that we need the equivalent of SMTP/POP for micromessaging as we have for email. I know Twitter is great and has a great ecosystem going, but it can’t last forever. Sure a lot of us have gmail addresses, but we can still send/receive email from people who are on gmail. Right now we don’t have that ability, really, with micromessaging/Twitter. It’s a closed box.
Early on in the whole micromessaging frenzy Status.net out of Montreal developed an open-source server for [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.














The Changing Face of Reader Engagement–I Want to Hear from You
by Tris Hussey on February 9, 2010 · 7 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Social Media
To really understand this post you need to understand a few things about me:
I pour over my webstats to learn more about who my readers are, what they read, and how they find me.
I love discussing the things I write about. That’s why I’ve written about them in the first place.
After blogging for about six years now, I’ve watched social media grow and evolve a lot, especially in how readers interact with writers.
Since I pour over my stats on a near-daily basis, especially when I see a traffic spike, I [...]
Tagged as: blog comments, Bloggers, reader engagement, twitter
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