Twitter Thoughts

May 20, 2009 by 3 Comments
Twitter VIPS

Twitter is nothing sort of complicated, although it is draining our time and energy. Twitter addictions are not rare now, some people spend long hours “broadcasting” their lives, watching what others do – a sense of strange voyeurism comes to mind, where perfect strangers watch you from the distance to make judgments about who you [...]

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Twitter Spreading Like Swine Flu: No One Is Immune

April 29, 2009 by 25 Comments

After calling it a “poor man’s email”, Google finally adopted Twitter by creating a “Google News” account and announcing it proudly on the Google News Blog. Could this be the beginning of something “deeper?” Google News aggregates stories from over 25,000 news sources updated continuously. Starting today, we’re offering users an additional channel to follow [...]

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Reflections on Twitter Hype

April 23, 2009 by 8 Comments
Twitter Success Boosted by Celebs.

As I sipped my coffee this morning, as I usually do before actually starting to work, I first read my Twitter messages (which  were not many), then I went straight to Google news – my main source of inspiration when writer’s block strikes. I think “writer’s block” is a bit too extreme to describe my [...]

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This Is Not a Democracy, It’s a Twittocracy

March 24, 2009 by 10 Comments

I just couldn’t resist this. I’ve recently read an article that advises the Twitter newbie (and probably expert too) how to “get retweeted” with 10 “twitterisms.” The author actually gives 12 quotes, but I suppose this is the charm of being a “tweeter” – twitting one thing and meaning another. The terms and the contents [...]

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