Forget Blogging, Start Tweeting

I’m going out on a limb here and just say it. If you’re an elected official and you aren’t blogging already just skip it. No disrespect to bloggers. I consider myself one. I love them. I love BlueNC. But times are changing and the tempo is speeding up!
A new site called Tweet Congress lists all [...]

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Social Carolina: Tech Events Calendar

Wayne Sutton is on top of local tech events in our area. So a couple of us asked him to create something to keep track of these events. He set up a blog at socialcarolina.org and I created a google calendar. Plus we have the Twitter user RDCH to follow and stay up-to-date.
Know about a [...]

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What are people Twittering about?

Maybe Tweet Volume can help answer this question. What are people Twittering about?

Some more questions… Are these answers valuable? How accurate are they? How do we display the change that comes about over of time?
Hat tip to Biz on the Twitter blog.

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RDCH: Twitter users in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill

Last week I created a new user on Twitter called RDCH. It stands for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. The idea is for this Twitter user to act like a group. I’ve been using Twittervision Map and Google to find people who’ve identified that they live somewhere in the Triangle aka RDCH. (That includes Apex, Cary, [...]

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Darth Vader Speaks

This just cracks me up!

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Wondering how its possible that, according to Kenobi, I somehow betrayed and murdered… myself. He always was an old coot. 6 minutes ago from twitterrific Darth Vader
Man am I a Star Wars dork… really only love the first one. Episode four or what [...]

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Presidential Candidate Fakesters?

Fred Stutzman has a interesting post on Tech President about Democratic Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Edwards using Twitter. (I learned about his post via Twitter actually.)
Now, I’ll gladly apologize if I’m wrong on this, but it appears that Mr. Obama didn’t write his first Twitter. There’s just something patently un-senatorial about all of [...]

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Twitter in NYT and my thoughts

From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet
My thoughts…. Twitter is very useful for keeping up with people you care about. The tweets may be trivial to some but gold to others. As long as it continues to be useful, fun, and cheap I’ll use it.
Sadly right now trying to put tweets on my [...]

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Getting Star Wars characters Twitters

I’m following Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Boba Fett, C3PO, R2D2, Princess Leia, Chewbacka, Han Solo, Ackbar, and the Emperor with Twitter. These fun fakesters appear to be pranks and not official marketing. But ya never know.
Fakesters are profiles created on social networking sites, like Twitter, that spoof all kinds of people both real [...]

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Update on my twitter blog

I’ve redirected yesh.com to yesh.com/blog for now. I had a Twitter/SMS blog up at yesh.com but found some bugs. I thought I could squash them quickly but it turns out its a bit more complicated. I’m working on it now and hope to restore the Twitter/SMS blog soon. I know ya’ll are freakn’ cause you [...]

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What is Brian doing? – a SMS/Twitter blog

Now when you go to the top page of the domain Yesh.com you’ll be taken to my SMS/Twitter blog. (Not when you come here to yesh.com/blog. This blog ain’t going nowhere.) This SMS/Twitter blog is basically a really simple page that is updated with my cell phone via SMS (Short Messaging Service) and Twitter.
Twitter [...]

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