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Twitter

Read/Write Twitter: Twitter’s real value is up to you

April 29, 2009
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I wanted to wait until all the smoke cleared and the hype blown away.

It all started when one of my tweeps asked me in a DM:

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Carmen, sorry for the late reply. I think I don’t mind.

You see, Twitter is the platform, it’s not the the object. I do think people understand Twitter as different things, depending on what they intend to use it for.

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Why Your Post Titles Are More Important Than Ever

March 18, 2009
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Yesterday, influential blogger Louis Gray announced on FriendFeed that he wanted recommendations for Tech blogs, so that he could pick five of them to be featured on his blog.

When I headed over, he had indeed added my blog to his list. A list with more than a thousand feeds.

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Eavesdropping Great Minds

February 16, 2009

Some people are trying to explain what Twitter is.

This is my shot at it.

Imagine being able to sneak in to a room where the most brilliant scientists, marketers, newsmakers are talking to each other.

This is what Twitter allows you to do. You’re not breaking and entering, and it’s free.

Just make sure you follow people that are smarter than you. Do not follow everyone that follows you.

A lot of these people are spammers and noisemakers. What they don’t get is that Twitter is not a marketing tool. It’s not a broadcast tool.

Twitter is the ultimate smoking room without the smoking.

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Let It Go, Twitter is Not Going To Die

July 29, 2008
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For the past few weeks there’s been talk of how Twitter is dead, how Twitter is going to die, or why Twitter must die. I think Twitter is just getting started.

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