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Well said.
Indeed, I would argue that what makes Twitter the company valuable is not Twitter the app or 140 characters or @names or anything else having to do with the product: rather, it’s the interest graph that is nearly priceless.
This is a really interesting way to look at Twitter as a business: based on who I follow, searches I do, etc., they know what topics I’m interested in and am willing to spend time on. I agree that this type of “interest” data should be incredibly valuable as it’s own product.
I love in-depth pieces like this. A lot of TLC went into this feature and it feels nice to use (although when I launched the official Twitter client to check it out I actually had trouble finding it – click into the photo/camera, then you can switch to video).
This seems like the sort of thing a platform would do when natural growth/network effect has stalled. Anyone surprised by this move hasn’t been paying attention.
[…] ignorance isn’t the same thing as dumb. Lots of smart people are ignorant about a lot of things. It’s an issue of exposure. And you can’t deal with exposure via a law.
This is a hard, hard topic to discuss – especially on the internet. I really enjoyed having a chance to sit with Chris and discuss in more detail at WordCamp Orange County this weekend.
Whoa. (thanks Justin)
If you’ve been using Social for a while like I have, you might also be seeing broken images in the comments area of your old posts. I did a little digging into this and discovered that this is related to how Twitter handles user avatars. When Twitter returns a user object, they include the URL…
Yay, an update to Twitter Tools! This should fix the “not auto-updating since upgrading Social to version 2.10 (or 2.11)” problem and adds a couple little goodies.
I’m primarily posting these types of updates over on the Crowd Favorite blog now, so be sure to subscribe over there. You can also or follow Crowd Favorite on Twitter or Like us on Facebook to get updates.
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We’ve released plugins to make the Carrington Build generated markup compatible with Twitter Bootstrap 2 and 3.
I’ve written before about Twitter lists; I feel it’s an underrated feature of the service. However, I’m lazy and habitual. Even though TweetBot makes it easy to switch between lists, I rarely do. I can’t keep up with everyone I want to follow on Twitter in a single stream. By grouping folks into lists, I…
I love how much of my Twitter feed is dedicated to the awesome stuff going on at Monktoberfest.
Initially started as a tweet archiver, Twitter Tools evolved into a full two-way WordPress-Twitter publish and import system. When Twitter implemented OAuth, the user experience for installing and setting up Twitter Tools took a giant beating. Users were forced to go register an “app” on the Twitter developer site, copy paste codes back and forth…
I’ve released Twitter Tools version 3.0.4 which now uses the Twitter v1.1 API. Since Twitter has turned off the 1.0 API, this is pretty much a “must upgrade” situation. If Twitter Tools has been active for you over the last few days, you’ll need to do a little cleanup: enable the Tweet admin screens delete…
This weekend, Luis wrote about his information diet1 in the wake of Google Reader’s impending closure. While reading his post, I thought about my own feed reading pattern. I hear lots of people say that Twitter has replaced feed reading for them. I don’t think that works for me, for several reasons: I like having…