Twitter’s #followfriday is a great way to recommend users that your friends should follow. The idea is that your friends trust you to only link to people who tweet about things they care about. But your followers are probably a fairly diverse crowd. People who share your professional interests probably follow you. Some people who are into [...]
Every Wednesday night, a group of ”professional writers and editors who use the micro-blogging service Twitter ” use the #editorchat hashtag to gather and “discuss how best to help one another.” (Thank you @LydiaBreakfast and @milehighfool.) Here, courtesy of Wordle, are the 50 non-common words that they used most frequently when they met on February 11. [...]
A quick look at links mentioned during Inauguration Day shows that CNN was the only site that was shared frequently by both Diggers and Twitterers. Right before midnight, I looked at the most popular links for the past 24 hours on Digg and extracted the top five links related to the inauguration. Then I did the [...]
If you are a Twitter newbie trying to experience Inauguration Day within the microblogosphere, you’re probably wondering why so many tweets are littered with #inaug09 and #inauguration. The answer is simple: Hashtags (words preceded by the the hash symbol) are turned into links by many programs and sites used to follow and read tweets. For example, [...]
