Adam Green
Twitter API Consultant
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Twitter consultant tip: Top 5 ways to monetize Twitter

November 12, 2010

I went to the OpenCoffee meetup in Cambridge the other day. They all recognized the importance of Twitter, but don’t understand how to make money from it. We are exactly where we were in 1996 with the World Wide Web when I helped start Andover.net. Great point in the cycle. So here is my quick […]

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When in doubt, blame server paths

November 12, 2010

I’ve been making a lot of changes in the 140dev code as a result of my son’s testing. It is great to get someone who isn’t an experienced PHP coder to test this. He blocks on things I’d just write around. I modified the scripts in the Twitter database server module to eliminate the need […]

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2012 will be the Twitter election

October 28, 2010

MSNBC just had a segment on the relationship between social media and political momentum of candidates. Chuck Todd seemed amazed that the ranking of a candidate in polls correlated with the number of Twitter followers they had. The trend is clear. 2004 was the blogging election with Dean propelled by bloggers. 2008 was the online […]

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Twitter consultant tip: Share this link with your clients

October 20, 2010

I wrote a post last week about building a maintenance plan into any Twitter consulting agreement. One of the reasons I gave then was the continuing evolution of the Twitter API. It is a certainty that this code will continue to change, and many of these changes have the potential of breaking your code. This […]

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Twitter ecosystem: Care and feeding of developers

October 20, 2010

The smartest thing Twitter ever did was externalize their data through an API. It created an active third party community that supported Twitter when times were tough and they didn’t have the resources to develop clients for all the platforms that needed them. That developer community was based on the Web 2.0 business model, which […]

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Twitter consultant tip: Code Globally, Sell Locally

October 18, 2010

It’s been six months since Fred Wilson advised Twitter developers to stop “filling holes” in Twitter. That blog post raised a huge outcry from developers that Twitter was changing the rules in the middle of the game. Well, yeah, they were, but the rules are going to keep changing all the time. What I found […]

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What if the next wave isn’t a bubble?

October 17, 2010

The Dot Com and Web 2.0 were classic bubbles, because they raised unreasonable expectations based on a financial fallacy. The unreasonable expectation was that anyone could get rich, and the fallacy in both cases was the belief that the money for these riches would come from a “greater fool.” At least in the Dot Com […]

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Your spammer is my information source

October 17, 2010

There is an interesting thread on the Twitter development list about the need for a “good citizen” rank. This problem is approached in a literal engineering way, which says there are good and bad users. There are plenty of Twitter behaviors that could be seen as “bad,” but the beauty of Twitter is that it […]

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Twitter Consultant Tip: Twitter is like a trade show party

October 15, 2010

A good Twitter consultant needs to spend a lot of time educating new clients in the real value of Twitter and how to interact with users. Most people who aren’t regular users think that Twitter is just another broadcast advertising medium. It is easy to see why they think that when you look at how […]

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