Archive for the category "twitter"

The Power of Twitter: Tweet Apps and Clients

May 9th, 2008 @ 10:43am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, internet, twitter, vancouver

Here are a few more tips and tricks that I’ve come across in the Twitter microblogging community: Twemes: First introduced at DemoCamp by Rochelle Grayson, Twemes is a website that comprehensively sorts and categorizes the things people Twitter about as long as they put a hashtag in front of it. Example, those currently at DrupalCamp [...]

The Power of Twitter

May 8th, 2008 @ 11:46am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, internet, twitter, vancouver

If you haven’t got your head around the concept of blogging, your mind might be blown with the latest term: microblogging. To those on Facebook, think “status updates”. Sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce (just to name a few and not including all the video ones out there) allow folks to update their contacts or [...]

Twitter Colour Wars

March 20th, 2008 @ 10:49am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, internet, twitter

A while back anyone using the popular microblogging tool Twitter may have noticed that their contact’s avatars sported some peas. This was in support of the Susan Reynolds and the Frozen Pea Fund, and was actually for a good cause. Now a new trend has surfaced in recent days that has Twitter users pitted against [...]

Website News And Geekiness

April 1st, 2007 @ 10:43pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, internet, twitter, website news, wordpress

I was reading Airdrie’s blog post about not joining Twitter [wiki], where she links to a Rocketboom video about how annoyingly addictive the service can be. I decided to start Googling around found a couple funny Twitter spoofs. Now I’ve never been a huge Star Wars [wiki] fan, and I have been blogging all night [...]