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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Twitter'
If you’re that important, they’ll find you again
July 23rd, 2008 ·
Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Flow · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Twitter
GPS Running
July 21st, 2008 ·
Link to today’s run
I love running. I skip wearing headphones or listening to music because I love hearing the world race past me. Things that interfere with the actual experience of being there aren’t interesting to me.
Nike+ on an iPod (a music player first and foremost) thankfully has the option to do a workout without [...]
Tags: Facebook · GPS · Geolocation · Life Streaming · N82 · Nike+ · Nokia · RSS · Running · Social Networking · SportsTracker · Twitter
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 [...]
Tags: Architecture · Blogging · Database · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services
Roz Savage is rowing across the Pacific
June 28th, 2008 ·
Thanks to new Twitter user @waileacapital for posting about a British woman, Roz Savage attempting to row across the Pacific (she rowed across the Atlantic already). If she succeeds she will be the first woman to complete the journey.
Roz blogs on a daily basis during a trip at http://rozsavage.com/blog. Her main site is at http://rozsavage.com. [...]
Tags: Blogging · Energy · Twitter · YouTube
Twitter’s one-to-many scaling impossible?
June 27th, 2008 ·
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 - Math is against [...]
Tags: Architecture · Blogging · Flow · Math · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · XMPP
Scoble and Gary in DC
June 26th, 2008 ·
MCCXXIII
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Last night I headed down to MCCXXIII, a club at 1223 NW. Connecticut, for a DC Social Media meetup. The meetup featured Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) as guests.
I’ve been following Scoble more than usual this week, as he’s come to DC to interview politicians and government officials with Rocky (@RocmanUSA) and his [...]
Tags: Blogging · Economics · Education · Energy · Social Networking · Twitter · Utterz
Mobile phone GPS a security risk? Only to those who follow you
June 25th, 2008 ·
Steven Hodson, in a post over on Mashable, describes security risks and the waste of information that mobile phone GPS use brings (when pinpointing and announcing our locations). He poses some extremely valid points in regards to announcing one’s geolocation via Twitter, Brightkite, or FriendFeed being useless noise.
Telling people via a highly conversational medium such [...]
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