Two facts are known through the web and tech community regarding Twitter: 1) It has quickly moved from a simple ‘what are you doing?’ tool to the poster-child of the micro-blogging phenomenon 2) It has been having huge scaling issues which has been causing service outages over the past several months. Both facts [...]
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“Mob Rules” & Power of Networks
Mark Pesce, a consultant based in Sydney, is someone I’ve just started recently following on Twitter. He recently gave a good talk regarding Twitter which discusses the emergent use cases of the service and its global impacts. He topped it with his closing remarks at Web Directions South 2007. He gave a [...]
Twitter, the layman’s explanation
Best layman explanation that I have seen regarding Twitter yet. Found it via Fred Wilson on Delicious.
Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Since demonstrating the value of Twitter to a number of colleagues a few weeks back, I have seen more and more people I know entering the world of Twitter. Some [...]
. Social Fatigue .
At first I thought it was just me. Then I asked a couple of colleagues at Dow Jones and several echoed my sentiment. I believe I am experiencing what I was calling ’social fatigue’. I simply reached a point of personal saturation for social software. How many social applications can [...]
