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  • Tweetrush

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTweetrush is based on the rushhour engine and aims at providing information on the volume of tweets that are sent every hour of the day. At the present 800,000 tweets are sent a day. That’s an average of 33,300 an hour. I only tweet at about 86 (not 200) a day…

  • I miss the old twitter.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver a year ago I started using twitter and it had great promise. The public timeline was so slow that I would refresh it and there would be no new comment for minutes at a time. The service would auto refresh from the website and the community was small. The @…

  • Tweetsms is the first to offer the world twitter sms to the phone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf everything goes according to plan tweetsms will be the first to offer the world the opportunity to receive sms from twitter to their phones. They released the prices today and by Friday we should be able to use the service once the bugs are worked out. Looking forward to that…

  • Twitter are stopping SMS

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

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    Reading Time: 7 minutes@Wiggly_Lisa Morning to you. How are you on this fine day? in reply to Wiggly_Lisa # Nice electrical activity in front of me as I drive away from Geneva. I see a police and a police car, but will … http://tinyurl.com/5lqstp # Home now. # @Wiggly_Lisa depends on the timezone, for the…

  • Twitter is a shambolic mess

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter is a shambolic mess, reminiscient of a 2008 version of how hotmail was back in 1998 when I stopped using it. How many of you remember hotmail pre microsoft. I do. It worked fine. Then it became popular and it become really slow. That’s when I spread to have ten…

  • I’m up to a measly 30,000 tweets over a year and four months

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I got to 30,000 tweets, a very nice number. There was a time when I seesmiced 5700 times in one month. Recently it’s been about 700 for last month.

  • I’m not the only one.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesMG had noted that, after a week, Twitter seemed to realize that it was a problem that the replies still weren’t working, and was pointing people to Summize for a workaround. I said “I hate having to rely on the web version of Twitter, first of all, then having the reply tab…

  • On moving from the Social media capital of Europe to Geneva

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a student it was not unusual for me to spend no more than six hours a day at home. The rest of the time I was out socialising, whether helping post grads with their work or with those from my studies. As a result of this I started to pay attention…

  • May-21st for a twit-out, boycott of twitter

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not the only person that’s annoyed with the vast amount of downtime suffered by twitter and there is a call for an international boycott of twitter on may 21st. During that day we’ll be using other more reliable services to show that twitter is nothing without the community that makes…