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Twitter Politics: Screen name shuffle

November 26, 2010

In a delightful juxtaposition of the technical and political aspects of Twitter, the top Twitter politicians are finding themselves with obsolete screen names. As The Hill points out, Nancy Pelosi tweets from @speakerpelosi, which will no longer be a correct description come January. Ironically, although it is technically possible to change screen names in Twitter, […]

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Twitter Politics: “The rise of the dissent entrepreneur”

November 25, 2010

I hadn’t heard the term “dissent entrepreneur” before I read this blog post by Aaron Peters, but I love it. Entrepreneurship is an established set of behaviors in the business and technology worlds. It would be great to see it applied to politics. Twitter politics is as much about political activism as campaigning by party […]

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Performance art or spam?

November 25, 2010

Back in the day, when Twitter was just starting out, a lot of us recognized the performance art aspect of tweeting your day or taking pictures of a meal as you prepared it. But then we were actual people discovering our exhibitionist side. What do you call it when a character in a movie tweets […]

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Twitter analytics IS a money-making machine

November 22, 2010

Pete Cashmore makes the silly claim in CNN that Twitter Analytics “could have been a money-making machine”. That’s a ridiculous statement from someone who publishes a site based on advertising revenue. The most important reason for Twitter to “give away” an analytics tool is so they can “sell” advertising. This is a direct analogy to […]

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Twitter Politics: What politicians get about Twitter, and the press doesn’t

November 22, 2010

Now that I am following the intersection of Twitter and politics more closely, I keep finding articles about politicians around the world adopting Twitter as a way of communicating with constituents, like this one on the European Parliament or this one about Turkish politicians. Journalists attribute this to a desire to appear to appear modern, […]

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Twitter consultant tip: What not to do when using the Twitter API

November 21, 2010

I had an unfortunate experience the other day when I tried helping someone out with a Twitter API question on a developer Q&A website. I won’t list the site’s name or URL, because I see no reason to give them even more traffic. What I want to do is point out some ways of using […]

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140dev Twitter framework: New CSS stylesheets

November 21, 2010

The next release of the 140dev Twitter framework will introduce a set of tweet display themes. There will just be 4 at first, but I intend to have about a dozen by the following version. I know people love pre-built themes. Refined Business Colorful Minimalist

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Twitter Politics: Truthytweet watch is on for 2012

November 20, 2010

The Truthy Project has done a great job of getting the story out about astroturf efforts during the 2010 campaign. The political press loves this type of story. It combines new media with gotchas aimed at politicians. What could be better? One phase of the political Twitter arms race is now defined. Campaigns will have […]

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Twitter consultant tip: Twitter is not email

November 20, 2010

One of the oddest behaviors on Twitter is spammers who think they can persuade people by blasting the same message over and over again through multiple accounts. Yesterday I looked at the Twitter search results for the phrase “twitter api”. I found hundreds of copies of these two tweets from dozens of accounts: The Twitter […]

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Twitter politics, expect a lot more here

November 19, 2010

I’ve decided to make Twitter politics my major focus as an application of the Twitter API. The combination of easy access, huge numbers of people, and the ability to do analytics and datamining to extract targeted demographic groups makes Twitter the tool of choice for leading edge political campaigns. This is a field I want […]

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Twitter consultant tip: Creating a sales lead spreadsheet

November 15, 2010

Part of the sales process for Twitter consulting is convincing a new client that Twitter is more than just another way to broadcast their message. You have to show them that what appears to be a random stream of tweets is really a collection of highly qualified sales prospects. By aggregating Twitter users as well […]

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