A post on Old Media, New Tricks asks if the era of live-tweeting is over, to be replaced by lifestreaming. The use of a lifestream — a chronological aggregated view of your life activities — to tell news is very smart, not just for obviously major events, but also for small stories that sometimes come to [...]
Here are the most clicked-on links that I shared on Twitter during the week ending June 27. You can receive Weekly Almighty Links as an email or add it you can add it to your RSS reader or custom home page. America’s Iranian Twitter Revolution: Maximilian Forte brings some global perspective to the “revolution” by [...]
In a recent post, visitor yael asked how to get TweetDeck to show previews of shortened URLs. Sounds like a great opportunity to try out some screencasting software, so here are 16 seconds of video to answer yael’s question: Oh, and a quick answer to yael’s other question: TweetDeck’s most recent version is “v0.26.2″ and [...]
To accompany Sunday’s look at Twitter tools that unmask shortened URLs, here are some utilities that reveal the true destination of shortened URLs outside of Twitter. I’ve shortened five URLs, including one YouTube link, with the five URL shorteners that were used the most in tweets within last 24 hours. http://bit.ly/7VFyx http://tinyurl.com/m44knh http://is.gd/19RUq http://ow.ly/fBXz http://tr.im/ppYe [...]
