Archive for the ‘twitter’ Category
February 26th, 2010 by
Miss604
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With many programs out there to help you sort and filter the abundance of Twitter “noise” out there, the Vancouver service FollowFormation has come up with a solution. Using the concept of Twitter lists, they have a simple user interface that allows you to pick one of their lists, select how many people you’d like [...]
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Tags: 2010, olympics, vancouver2010
Posted in olympics, twitter, vancouver, vancouver2010
February 12th, 2010 by
Miss604
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After the success of my first two contests (one which is still ongoing) BC Hydro has asked me to make another contest announcement this afternoon. They have two tickets for the Women’s 500m qualifier short track speed skating happening tomorrow that they want to give away over Twitter.
Contest:
For this one BC Hydro Power Smart would [...]
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Tags: 2010, olympics, vancouver2010
Posted in contests, olympics, twitter, vancouver, vancouver2010
February 5th, 2010 by
Miss604
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Many people have been wondering what the official Twitter hashtag for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games will be. To give a bit of background I’ll explain the purpose of a hashtag.
Every word on Twitter that is published from a public account is searchable on Twitter (see: search.twitter.com or Twitter Search in Plain English). When someone [...]
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Tags: 2010, olympics, vancouver2010
Posted in internet, olympics, poll, twitter, vancouver, vancouver2010
October 29th, 2009 by
Miss604
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This morning I woke up to see a new Twitter update from @MtSeymourRoad:
Ski and snowboard season is just around the corner and as Metro Vancouver prepares for another blustery winter, the local hills are getting ready to welcome the Olympic-sized crowds that will be flocking to the hills. Here’s how many of them are using [...]
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Posted in facebook, local mountains, snow, snowboarding, twitter, vancouver
September 15th, 2009 by
Miss604
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The Vancouver Canucks to host an official Tweetup on Thursday, all are welcome to come out to watch the game and cheer on the team.
During the NHL season the term “Canucks” usually becomes one of the top ten trending topics on Twitter while other teams across the league have yet to achieve this social media [...]
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Tags: events, tweetup
Posted in canucks, hockey, twitter, vancouver
September 1st, 2009 by
Miss604
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For the second time this year, I am organizing a Twestival event in Vancouver.
Twestival is a global fundraising event that is organized through Twitter, using the service to gather volunteers, get community input, invite participants, and publicize the event. Twestival will be like a meetup, where you can show up, have some food, win [...]
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Tags: events, social media, social media for a cause, social media for change, twestival, yvrtwestival
Posted in charity, social media scene, twitter, vancouver
August 7th, 2009 by
Miss604
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With VinoCamp CheeseCamp happening tomorrow, I’m in a wine kind of mood.
This morning I went searching for a list of wineries on Twitter and I found the motherload here.
Despite the list being very long, a few local wineries were not represented so since the site is a wiki, I was able to log [...]
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Tags: wine
Posted in bc, internet, twitter
August 6th, 2009 by
Miss604
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What does the population do when Twitter goes down? I’m not sure but hopefully they turn to blogs. This morning the microblogging service used by millions across the globe went down, and I’m not taking “Fail Whale” down.
Fail Whale Fan Club & What is Fail Whale
The entire site is unavailable (as well as services [...]
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Tags: twitter
Posted in internet, twitter
July 26th, 2009 by
Miss604
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Post #46 of #49 – Over the next 24 hours I will be raising funds for the Union Gospel Mission during Blogathon 2009 by writing a blog post every 30 minutes. Please consider donating to my cause to keep my going until 6am PT July 26th.
If you use the popular microblogging service Twitter you’ll notice [...]
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Tags: blogathon 2009
Posted in blogathon, twitter, vancouver
July 25th, 2009 by
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Post #22 of #49 – Over the next 24 hours I will be raising funds for the Union Gospel Mission during Blogathon 2009 by writing a blog post every 30 minutes. Please consider donating to my cause to keep my going until 6am PT July 26th.
The following is a guest post, contributed by Brian Wong [...]
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Tags: blogathon 2009
Posted in blogathon, guest post, twitter