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Watch me on The Big Web Show

June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Consulting, Pleasure, Twitter, User Experience

Last Thursday I had the absolute pleasure of joining the lovely Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin on the eighth episode of The Big Web Show (read my previous post).
If you weren’t able to catch the live broadcast, be sure to check out the video and podcast.
We talked about how I’ve used Twitter to build my [...]


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Using Twitter for Friend Advice

January 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Twitter

I ask questions on Twitter all the time on a wide variety of topics, and I usually get really useful responses — but never as many as when I ask about interpersonal issues.
A little while ago I posed this question:

“What do you do when someone you really care about won’t respond to your emails & [...]


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Take our Twitter survey for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Twitter

It would mean a lot to me if you could please take a moment to complete the survey below. I’m helping to design a new Twitter client and your input will be invaluable. Thank you.
Survey link: http://bit.ly/4mMZWJ
Fill out my Wufoo form!
Tweet this survey!
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What I did while Twitter was down today

August 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Pain, Twitter

Twitter had a Denial of Service Attack this morning, which affected its uptime all day today. Therefore I was forced to figure out what to do without it. Here’s what I came up with:

I noted my frustration on Facebook
I actually looked at my friends’ pages on Facebook
I reached Inbox Zero in Google Reader and reorganized [...]


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UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account

July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience

Last night there was a minor fiasco when hundreds of thousands of people suddenly found that their tweets were being published to their Facebook status without their explicit authorization. The only way to fix the problem was to remove or block the Twitter application from within Facebook.


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