Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

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Entries Tagged as 'Twitter'

10 Worthwhile Twitter Bots

July 19th, 2008 · 2 comments so far

Yeah, you get it. I love Twitter. It’s a great place to connect with new and interesting people, but it’s also just a good platform for information delivery and in some cases productivity. Some of these are actual bots (automated accounts) while others are just run by an organization — I’m lumping them into the [...]

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Twitter buys Summize

July 15th, 2008 · 2 comments so far

Twitter’s search engine has always pretty much sucked. The functionality was put on the site in August 2007, but it only searches username, location, bio and URL — not the actual tweets in the stream.
Lots of folks out there have used the Twitter API to build their own search engine, the most popular of [...]

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TweetDeck stream of consciousness

July 14th, 2008 · 7 comments so far

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In my opinion, Twitter is a powerful vehicle for synchronous communication (Asychronous = e-mail; Synchronous = AIM). It’s happening in real-time, and while it’s often called a micro-blogging platform, I think that’s a misnomer. It’s quite different than a blog — a centralized stream of content curated by one or many people. By contrast, Twitter [...]

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How Twitter has changed my life

July 8th, 2008 · 11 comments so far

Sometimes Twitter comes up in conversation with my friends and family that don’t work in technology. I never actually bring it up because I know that it’ll require an hour plus of explanation or discussion, at the end of which they’ll think I’m crazy, nerdy or just plain bored. But every now and then someone [...]

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Tim Russert dead, so says Twitter

June 13th, 2008 · 6 comments so far

Tim Russert is dead at 58 from an apparent heart attack. And I found out via Twitter.
Before it was on CNN. Before it was on the New York Times. Before I could Google it anywhere, Tim Russert’s death was reported on Twitter.
This is the power of word-of-mouth.
If you page back in the Summize logs, you [...]

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