Category Archives: twitter

Forget Blogging, Start Tweeting

Posted on January 27, 2009 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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Social Carolina: Tech Events Calendar

Posted on November 18, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, Events, Local, North Carolina, Raleigh, Technology, socialnetworks, twitter | 1 Comment

What are people Twittering about?

Posted on May 27, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 21, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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Darth Vader Speaks

Posted on April 27, 2007 by BrianR

This just cracks me up! Raw text from above image to get google cached: 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 … Continue reading →

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Presidential Candidate Fakesters?

Posted on April 26, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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Twitter in NYT and my thoughts

Posted on April 24, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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Getting Star Wars characters Twitters

Posted on April 3, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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Update on my twitter blog

Posted on February 26, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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What is Brian doing? – a SMS/Twitter blog

Posted on February 21, 2007 by BrianR

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 … Continue reading →

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