Micro-blogging

Entries Tagged as 'Micro-blogging'

Easy way for spammers to follow more than 2,000 on Twitter (and get better results)

August 12th, 2008 ·

The 2,000 follower limit, it would seem, was put in place to prevent mass following and spam on Twitter. This was pretty frustrating for me since I fell in to their beyond-the-limit zone (I followed over 6,000 people because I loved the information, but couldn’t add any more).
I’m not complaining too much, as I’m enjoying [...]

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Tags: Architecture · Facebook · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Twitter

Returning to “Traditional” use of Twitter

August 9th, 2008 ·

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 than 95% of the userbase [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flow · FriendFeed · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · RSS · Social Networking · Twitter

How to build a really successful web 2.0 service on top of another service and screw it all up

July 30th, 2008 ·

Twicecream - a fake service to demonstrate a point about single sign-on…
In web 2.0 there is a determination to screw up potentially great services. It’s my number #1 pet peeve with software development these days. Here’s a fictitious example of a service you might create…
You’ve built a service that automatically Twitters your geo-position and the [...]

What a great day! (Phillies, software, 12seconds, WCU)

July 24th, 2008 ·

Had an awesome day - time to share!

12seconds.tv/channels/solyoung
First 12second introduction
TechCrunch link
WCU post

If you’re that important, they’ll find you again

July 23rd, 2008 ·

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 your friend [...]

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Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Flow · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Twitter

FriendFeed’s response about del.icio.us feeds not updating

July 2nd, 2008 ·

Ross Miller at FriendFeed responded to my question about FriendFeed del.icio.us feeds not updating. It seems del.icio.us is blocking mass spidering of their site.
Ross’s email:
“Hi Sol, del.icio.us places restraints on our ability to crawl their site. So if for some reason the item is missed, it becomes very hard for us to retrieve the del.icio.us [...]

Crossing the streams - large numbers of Twitter updates

June 29th, 2008 ·

Chris Bilson (@cbilson) had a good description regarding my post about Twitter’s scaling/architecture challenge.
“Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte tweet at the same time = crossing the streams”
I dunno if Proton Packs have exponential load challenges, but the end result for a server can feel similar. Is my post I pointed out that Twitter has to [...]