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  • Why it’s a waste of time to follow certain people

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this article there are recommendations about who you should follow on twitter and I must admit I followed almost every one of them. I have unfollowed everyone of them except one. Chris Brogan. He’s the person whom I feel is most likely to answer a tweet directed at him. If you’re…

  • The Feedly and Friendfeed way of doing things

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesVenture capitalists love to invest in something that works, something that’s concrete. If it’s got a 900% user growth rate overall and tripled in size in the UK alone then this is excellent. That’s the perfect website to invest in. Of course I’m speaking here of twitter. The 140 character twitter website…

  • Friendfeed has a great future

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI really like Friendfeed and what it’s becoming. What I love is how easy it is to follow many people and converse with them about everything they share. It’s the future of web sharing but it may take several months for people to move towards it. There are a number of things…

  • Twitter friendships and why I took some time off

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you first arrive on twitter it’s lots of strangers sending messages speaking about what they’re doing and it quickly becomes overwhelming, especially with the vast number of people. For the first few months many people send no more than a hundred posts a day as they get used to the twitter…

  • Ten Days without Twitter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a video of me at the only Twestival event I have ever been to and I lay into the event for the fashionistas that attended the event. I was so disappointed with the event as a whole that I have lost my passion for going to social media events, especially…

  • Remember that first tweetup?

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we have @sizemore speaking about why he organised the first London tweetup. I will upload some of the other interviews soon but I’m just checking the player embedding first This text will be replaced

  • Counting follower mass by absolute tweet number

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear developers, As the number of people on twitter increases and as people get into the thousands of followers I would like to demonstrate that those thousands of followers does not amount to much. Instead I would like to count follower mass by the absolute number of each follower, added to…

  • Re-tweeting demonstrates that twitter is broken, here’s why

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving used Friendfeed intensly for the last two days and through reading this post I believe that twitter is on it’s way out for early adopters for one fundamental reason. The re-tweet. Twitter is over simplified for anything but IRC like conversation and as a result of this for passionate users…

  • The Forbes Intern is not wrong about twitter in Europe

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaw this post on techcrunch and the intern is not wrong. I left a comment on the blog. I also decided to leave that comment here. Get out of London, get out of Paris. Get to the provinces and the small towns. get into the french speaking, Lithuanian speaking, portuguese portions…

  • Zurich twitter dinner and the Inauguration in Geneva

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the moment I am planning on going to Zurich for the twitter dinner. It’s the first Zurich twitter event I go to and it will be interesting whether I need to speak swiss german or whether my English and French will help make conversation a little simpler. I don’t exchange…