I was interested tonight in a tweet by @TheEllenShow trying to push to 500,000 followers on twitter.
Wow, half a million. Really impressive.
But wait. The account has only been active since August of 2008. Roughly, that is adding 2000 people a day.
So I poked around a bit. Interesting findings.
Something has been unusual about Twitter in the last two months. I couldn’t quite pin it, but it seemed there was a mass increase of spammers or people that have spammer like behavior.
It all started with a UI change. Or so I think.
About 2 months ago Twitter changed the order of your Follower…
Last night I met up with a group of people off Twitter (known affectionately as a ‘tweetup’). I wasn’t sure what to think of Bend, the startup scene here or how it has grown up since I moved away from Central Oregon.
The Bend community is doing surprisingly well. There were a great mix of 20 designers, developers,…
UTweet, a project of Archana Ramachandran and David Giesberg, aims to educate the college crowd on how to use Twitter, and why to. They are doing a series of people in elevators pitching what Twitter is.
They contacted me after viewing the accidental elevator pitch of Guy Kawasaki at SXSW. It got me thinking, how…