Sol Young

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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 a meaningful [...]

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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 email or if I catch a lot of [...]

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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 reactee.com. They ship pretty fast. I ordered on a Friday and received it on Monday (today).
UPDATE: I signed up for an [...]

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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:

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

I’m visiting my in-laws this weekend so haven’t been spending much time in the flow this [...]

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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 go through my email for add announcements… Doing that [...]

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

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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 follow along, so I’ll be adding again. [...]

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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 what I’ve learned first-hand by Day 3…
After wrapping [...]

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