Max Beatty

Early today, I came across a blog post describ­ing how to tell if some­one is fol­low­ing you on Twit­ter. It was lim­ited to just the Twitter.com inter­face so I thought I’d expand on their native apps for Mac and iOS.

The “Who to Fol­low” fea­ture of Twit­ter has been slowly evolv­ing over the past 10 months. Tonight, a strange social graph anom­aly occurred in my time­line. Two friends from dif­fer­ent pasts tweeted the exact same sen­ti­ment almost ver­ba­tim. Bob King and I grew up on the north side of Indi­anapo­lis, and after unknow­ingly cross­ing paths […]

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.