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Twitter activity stream

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Back in August we heard about the upcoming real time twitter activity streams but, since then, not many of us have seen them. Today, I was lucky to observe this functionality in  one of the twitter accounts I admin. See how the mentions tab has changed? It is not just Mentions anymore. It is “mentions and [...]

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A great filter at last: Facebook Pages Custom Sharing

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It’s a little bit over two years since when I wrote about the desirability of a language filter for social media news ‘streams’. But while Facebook has given the world one, probably because I missed its initial introduction, I  made the connection only now : In Facebook Pages, one can select who will see a certain [...]

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Why do we retweet?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

What are the primary motivations for retweeting? There are countless of quasi answers out there but very little substantial research. Unfortunately I do not bring you one. I run a little experiment the other day. I said I was running a “Retweet” experiment and asked my followers to RT! I was not sure what to [...]

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Retweeting is the best FollowFriday.

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The norms of twitter behavior are pretty much user generated. @ Replies, retweets, hashtags to name a few, were all invented by twitter users as a kind of behavior first, and then were turned to application functionality. Such a kind of social behavior is Follow Friday too: each Friday twitter users tweet to their followers [...]

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A new twitter metric: followers to listed ratio

Posted in Social media, tagged , on May 20, 2010 | Comments Off

Say a twitter account is listed x times. So what, you might ask. Indeed, the absolute number means little. But by observing  both numbers as a ratio (followers to lists, F/L for brevity from now on), I think I have found a quite meaningful use of  them. If  a twitter user is performing some sort of [...]

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Lists bring sanity back in twitter use – Part I

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on November 24, 2009 | Comments Off

I have been a big opponent of the vanity twitter use (aka harvesting followers, hoping that “followers” equals “audience”). In practice, this meant that from a point on,  I completely stopped looking who is following me, did not reciprocate at the cost of being perceived as arrogant and kept my follower/following ratio to 4. Still not [...]

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The partial feed sacrilege and the ad benefit

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off

  I remember a time (not so long ago) when people were disgusted by partial feeds and most of the major blogs and bloggers abided by this unwritten law. Publishing a partial feed was synonymous to cheap exploitation, putting ad revenues over readership, alienating your readers etc. I, myself, am guilty of accusing blogs for [...]

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Web 2.0 without javascript?

Posted in Code, Social media, tagged , , , , on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A couple of days ago I came across this terrifying presentation from John Graham-Cumming. Although the topics covered weren’t entirely new to me, put together in one presentation, had an impact.  I came to wonder if and how would the major web 2.0 sites work, if javascript was out of the picture. I decided to [...]

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What twitter considers as spam

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on September 13, 2009 | Comments Off

The recent update  of twitter’s  Terms of Service, brought to my attention this page from twitter support :  The Twitter Rules. Is it not a long read but it is quite educative as to what twitter considers as spam or spamming behavior. It is interesting to note that there is no rigid definition of spam: [...]

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What is a conversation?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2009 | Comments Off

Maybe the reason why Twitter succeeds is because people don’t really want to have conversations. They just want to be able to scream out into the void and listen for echoes. says Victor Ganata. If true, then all web 2.0 product developers should go back to the design desk. The real underlying question though is: [...]

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