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Jun 04 2009

Visualizing Twitter Part Deux: I Tweet Therefore I Am, Or Must've Been Awake!

Category: executive learnings,lifestreaming,tech opinion,tech reviews,tools — jmacofearth @ 6:44 am

The API-sucking apps for Twitter are seriously where the fun begins and ends with Twitter. The network is cool, the followers (though I hate that name) also cool. But the apps working the network is where the real innovation is happening. What has Twitter proper done lately in the way of innovation? Fail? And did I read recently that 90% of Twitter's server load is due to API calls and not people on Twitter.com. So where will Twitter.com, or Biz and Co. at Twitter the company, add value? Cause if Twitter is just a network (and I'd argue that it is), it can/will be replicated and sucked down by Google or Microsoft or Oracle in a wingbeat. Pay attention.

xefer.com (charting the time of day and day of the week when you tweet)

tweetbeep (it's like google alerts but for twitter)

tweetreach (how far do your tweets go?)

twist (see trends in Twitter)

backtweets (search links on twitter)

twittervenn (venn diagrams using twitter data)

I did some fun experiments with Twitter Venn when I discovered it in March, around the time of SXSW. I still think for trending, it may be my favorite tool to show brand reach and currency. So, do you suppose it's just mac fanboys who are creating such a roar about Apple? Even with WIN7 the new iMac/Mac OS killer, Vista-redeemer, Apple is 5 times more likely to be discussed than HP or Dell. And more than twice as frequently as HP or Dell combined. That's Reach and Power combined.

Go poke your head into the Apple Store and tell me what the heck are all those people doing in there? Seriously, the stores are packed!

I know I'm waiting to see what the next iPhone will be. [Hey isn't Father's day coming right up? Nice timing Apple!]

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/visualizations-twitter

Did I miss one of your favorite visualization tools for Twitter? Drop me a line or a comment and I'll add it to my list. THX

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Mar 17 2009

While My Mac Gently Tweets – #SXSW Twitter is Going to be HUGE

Category: community building,just for fun,social media,tools,trust & reputation — jmacofearth @ 2:47 pm

Twitter was all lit up like a new baby at this year's SXSW. There were more APIs than KPIs.

I remember in 2006 when it was just launched and I could not stand the buzzing it caused my phone or the inanities I was being buzzed about. "I'm eatin pizza at XXXX and then a bunch of us are going to hear the Buzzcocks at The Lucky Duck Lounge."

I was annoyed and unimpressed. I forgot my login and quietly let my initial twitter presence die within weeks of the conference.

Jump forward to SXSW 09 and I was wondering how I had not put my twitter username on my business cards. Man the BUZZ was on. Every other API seemed to link into twitter in some way. The bloggers lounge was more of a tweeters lounge.

There were people who had been in the business for years who still did not get Twitter. There were newcomers who seemed to have rediscovered Twitter for the rest of us. There were the TwitterSpams, TwitterPorn, TwitterMarketing, TwitterVirus(es), TwitterScams, AutoTwitterers, DelayedTweetTools, Twitter4Business, Twitter4SocialMedia……. [URP!] Epic fail! And the deepest Twitter disconnect for me, a Twitter draft (out)box where you saved tweets you were still working on or wanted to delay sending until later..

Makes me think of a wake up challenge I have been thinking about lately. "You're gonna tweet your life away."

Is there anything you are tweeting that is worthy of capture? If it is worth of capture how are you capturing it? Is it worthy of a blog post? Is it a discussion starter? Is there any meaning behind the term microblogging?

I have worked on a Social Media matrix, and here is my take on Twitter. Me, Moi, Mine… Only an opinion. Twitter is for REALTIME conversations with REAL PEOPLE. When anything is delayed or triggered automatically, I think you have got the wrong system of commnication. What you are looking for in that case is EMAIL.

Be an Auto-Bot at your own peril, may your stream wither and slow to a crawl.

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitter-is

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