Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
This is just funny. Smart, too. Enter your twitter account and email address, then Qwitter tattles on anyone who stops following you.
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Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
This is just funny. Smart, too. Enter your twitter account and email address, then Qwitter tattles on anyone who stops following you.
Labels: social media, social networking, twitter
"People go online to do many things," says early Internet pioneer Esther Dyson. "One of the reasons they go online is to create a presence. With Geo Cities, you had your presence in one place. With Facebook, you are distributing your presence to anyone who is your friend."MediaPost Publications - The Future Of Media: The Internet - 09/23/2008
Dyson says this extends well beyond the cross-linking aspect of Facebook pages to include widgets and even real-time applications such as Twitter.
"With Twitter, people are distributing their presence incessantly. Personally, I think that is a little obsessive, but what people are really doing is collecting social interactions," she explains. "If we had a biological urge to spread our genes, now people have the means to spread their presence."
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So what's the future of the Internet? Well, technology, regulation, business models will surely be important factors, but if you look at what has really been shaping the Internet - both past and present - it is people. And some day, we may even send one over the Internet.
Labels: emerging media, Esther Dyson, Facebook, futurist, insights, interactive, media, twitter
During the debates, the network bent on viewer-created content will broadcast Twitter messages — or "tweets" — from viewers. In close to real time, Current will display comments on the screen while Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama face off.Current TV to broadcast `tweets' during debates - Yahoo! News
Labels: convergence, emerging media, television, twitter
Twitter / Over capacity
Now I just want to squeeze the effing life out this beached whale! What in the world is wrong with Twitter?! They'd better watch it or the audience is going to walk.
Labels: twitter