Almighty Link

A quick visit totinyurl.com/Obama brings up the front page of British tabloid The Sun. That web address is what Tinyurl.com calls a “custom alias.” It works great when I wan to tell someone where to find my Google profile: tinyurl.com/ksablan. That’s much easior to remember than www.google.com/s2/profiles/102516730109910018503, or a cryptic address that most URL-shortening services produce. But you [...]

Late last week, I noticed many of the tweets on Twitter’s Election 2008 page contained links. A screen grab taken this morning shows that still to be the case almost one week after Election Day. As a matter of fact, 355 of the last 500 tweets that contain “obama” also  include a link (as of about half an [...]

In the span of four minutes and 36 seconds, 500 messages containing the word “Obama” were posted to Twitter on the afternoon of Election Day. The flurry started 27 seconds after 3:55 p.m. PST, when a livejournal blogger from Kentucky posted this simple tweet: “Obama 08!” During that time, an average of 108.7 Obama tweets were published every minute. [...]