After using Twitter as my push-based latest-news system for five months, I’ve gone back to the “traditional” use of Twitter. Without IM and large follower functionality, Twitter offers no way to experience a flow of tweets.

“What have I done!?”

I’ve gone back to the traditional use of Twitter. The method more…

On Twitter, the numbers for friends (people you follow) and followers (people who follow you) are being misreported. The most common tweet today is about one’s follower count dropping off. This is telling of your personality, and not in a good way.

If you’re complaining about your follower count dropping off without your realizing…

Twitter has been having all kinds of scaling challenges. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on the subject. Dave Winer pushed an idea for a decentralized Twitter (and has since admitted the power of Twitter is in its centrality). There is a single, simple, reason for Twitter’s challenges –…

While doing my typical searches for new and interesting people on Twitter to add to the flow, I noticed something indicative of Spring cleaning. You see, when you search Twitter, you usually get pages of people who haven’t updated in a year or accounts with zero updates – ever – and six months stale.…

Twitter on XMPP is just the beginning…

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I’ve been using Twitter as a main source of news and entertainment (it’s entertaining and informative to have commentary coming in with links, events, articles, and photos). Most everything pertinent to my areas of interest are discussed, so the…

(interior picture from The Towers of Numar, by Michael Gagne)

It’s been almost two weeks since I started using Twitter as a primary source of news, links, and other fascinating bits of information. The approach has been awesome and I’ve discovered a ton…

I came by this as a latent side effect from switching to my flow method of using Twitter. It seems a lot of people want a quick and easy way to save their Twitter stream and be able to search it later…

To do this, you need to set up Twitter so you’re getting (or…

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When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually impossible to have…

I’m used to the speed of the flow and it’s slow. It’s time to open it up and look for five-figures…

Useful link: flow entries

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I read the flow of XMPP Twitter traffic with breakfast and in the evenings. I then scan it when checking…

After doing my flow entries on Twitter I decided to take it to the people on the street…

A lot of people asked how to order their own… You can get one for $20.00 at more→

Day 7 – The flow rises, but as it gets faster I just want more… I wonder what Scoble’s flow is like…

Here are my previous flow entries so you’re up to speed:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5
• Day 6 (no post)
  

I’m visiting my…

Day 5 – 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…

Links: Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 – Day 4 – http://twitter.com/sol – http://solyoung.com

This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t…

Day 4 brings inspiration – this type of stream is like the Internet before Google…

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

It’s been 4 days with a flow approach to receiving data. I skipped adding more people today and focused on getting used to the incoming content. It’s become easy to…

The flow is going and it’s time for plumbing improvements and deeper details on this process…

• Day 1
• Day 2 

Image courtesy of Komax Systems

Day 3

The question most people have been asking is, “What is the flow like?” Many have described this amount of flow as unmanageable and anti-social. Here’s…

It’s day two of discovering and opening up the flow… (not to be confused with ‘Flow Theory‘)

A couple days ago, after months of thinking about how to consume more information, I was inspired by Scoble’s post to switch off of a standard…