“Your Twitter profile is worth: $108″… but how?

One of the first things I saw when I opened up Twitter this morning was the below post from @paulrasmussen

Being the ever curious person I am, I decided to have a click on the link and see what all the values were about. Assigning a monetary value to my profile? Could I possibly use this twitter value to [...]

Twitter – Facebook. Apple – Orange.

So a while ago I read a post called Twitter versus Facebook: Should You Choose One? on the twitip blog.  It got heaps of responses from people, me included. I didn’t feel the urge to respond in detail until @valeriestevens raised the issue on a twitter post again today that got me thinking. Thanks @ValerieStevens!
So [...]

Social networking for good: my manifesto

I’ve finally fallen off the deep end on my soapbox and spilled my impassioned rant onto this space.
You cannot disconnect me
I read alot about workplaces banning access to social networking sites. It always makes me get up on my mental soapbox. It often makes me reach for my iPhone just to make a point to those [...]

Twitter marketing. It’s a balance.

Once again I came across Atherton Bartelby’s FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter today.  It’s a good and easy read that I suspect many Twitter followers will empathise with the sentiments in the post.
I too especially dislike people overtly pushing their own products on Twitter and it [...]

Ever wondered what’s in a Twitter ReTweet?

I’m going to attempt this post with my “blogging tonsilitis” as I think it is well worth the effort. I just cannot help myself.  This is the easiest potential topic of the day for me because I got quite excited by it. A few weeks ago I came across Dan Zarrella’s post “What’s in a [...]

Twitblogs: Hype, function, and opinion

What is twitblogs?
I succumbed. I was too tempted by all the talk about twitblogs to resist trying it any longer.  For those who don’t know what twitblogs is, they describe themselves as “a service that lets you say more, share more, and do more with your friends, family and followers. Twitblogs is a newer and [...]

Tweetwasters. Bit of a laugh… but hey, that’s what it’s supposed to be.

Just a short one today about another new “toy” I found.  It’s called Tweetwasters and basically it uses the number of tweets you have made to estimate the amount of time you have spent on Twitter. It basically assumes that each tweet you’ve contributed to the Twitterverse takes 30 seconds to write, and that however [...]

What do you get when you cross an interview and Twitter? The Twitterview

I just came across a novel way of using Twitter. The Twitter interview, or Twitterview as Dennis Stevenson rightfully calls it. As the name implies, the Twitterview is interviewing someone using Twitter, so your questions and answers are directed specifically to each other using the “@’ symbol and appear in the Twitter stream. to make sense [...]

Twitter as a virtual water cooler

A new (for me anyways) tool floated my way through the Twitterverse this morning called TweetStats which analyses your Twitter actions by frequency of posting, time of action and key words.
Wat does it tell me about me? (there’s that narcissism again) From these statistics I can conclude the following about my Twitter behaviour:

Being most active when I get into work [...]

I think I’m addicted to the internet…

I may possibly be addicted to the internet. I’ve always been a heavy user. I’d go to work, come home and play around a little before cooking and doing something else that I can no longer remember. It’s a distant memory now. Blurred by the abuse to my eyesight, harm to my posture, neglect of [...]