I joined Twitter a little over two and a half years ago. I don’t need to tell you about the service’s astronomical growth and acceptance into the mainstream. Features have been added to compliment how users use it. “Best practices” have been formed by social media gurus, mavens, and experts. While I don’t buy into [...]
Yesterday, the popular Twitter / Facebook / MySpace desktop app Tweetdeck updated its iPhone app and I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was disappointed in the direction they took with the trivial features they added. The big “additions” included Facebook integration, video integration via 12seconds, landscape composing, and Bit.ly support. Instead, I would have liked [...]
On Friday, I finally got back to Bloomington to pick up a stack of cups with my Little 500 logo from PizzaX (formerly Pizza Express) that they had set aside just for me and wanted to thank them publicly for their small effort that meant a lot to me.
Twitter is renowned for allowing its users to create and define some of its features (i.e. @replies, #hashtags, retweets). The Favorites feature is one of the older ones on Twitter, but it doesn’t get a lot of publicity. To see your favorites go to http://twitter.com/favorites and to see other users’ favorites go to http://twitter.com/username/favorites. You’ll [...]
I know this has been covered more than once, but my old AI Marty specifically asked me how I integrated Twitter with my site so I thought I’d write out a little more than 140 characters in response. I have to admit most of the work was done for me by CSSRockstars’s free theme Charade, [...]