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• Not long left to join twitter crowdsourcing experiment

  Dan Thornton

  5 Nov 2009 | 1:01 am

  This Twitter crowdsourcing experiment was set up by regular 140char.com contributor Lauren Fisher over on her agency site at SimplyZesty, so here’s an explanation from Lauren herself: Using Twitter to crowdsource the world in 72 hours. Well not exactly the world, but England, America and Ireland at least. That’s the challenge we’ve set ourselves and we’re relying on word of mouth to make the experiment work. The project started just under 48 hours ago and was originally intended just for Ireland. It soon gained traction and buzz so we decided to roll it out to England…

• Find the most popular tweeted brands on Twitter quickly

  Dan Thornton

  2 Nov 2009 | 6:31 am

  If you want to find the most popular brands on Twitter in terms of mentions, you could spend some time setting up various monitoring systems. Or you can just go to TweetedBrands and see which 50 companies are getting the most mentions in any one day. It’s simple and effective for a quick overview, and each mention number links to the appropriate Twitter search. TweetedBrands And that’s about it, other than to say it was produced as part of the 24 hour business camp.

• Twitter lists continue to create interest

  Dan Thornton

  31 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am

  I may have already written about Twitter lists, but certainly the interest in them hasn’t started to wane yet. In addition to everyone and their blogging dog creating posts on the lists you really, definitely, absolutely should follow,  Mark Drapeau has an interesting post on O’Reilly Radar, in which he puts forward the idea that Twitter lists are a more organic metric than the number of followers/RTs an individual has. Meanwhile the two rivals for most comprehensive Twitter client, Tweetdeck and Seesmic, have both revealed the imminent inclusion of list functionality:…

• Listorious is quick off the mark to find best Twitter Lists

  Dan Thornton

  30 Oct 2009 | 4:19 am

  With about half of Twitter users able to access Twitter Lists as they’re rolled out to everyone, independant Twitter list directory Listorious has been quick to launch and offer curated lists on a range of topics. It’s interesting to see whether the relatively peer-led recommendation of Twitter lists will displace directories of individual users grouped by category such as WeFollow and Twellow. Obviously there are concerns about both the follower-inflation that everyone has seen from the Suggested User List presented to new users, as well as individuals worried about being…

• What are you using Posterous for?

  Dan Thornton

  28 Oct 2009 | 9:16 am

  I’m really intrigued to find out what other people are using Posterous for. The ease with which you can post by email, and send images and video which are automatically resized means I keep toying with it for various things but haven’t found something which has got me using in regularly (I’ve already got two self-hosted Wordpress blogs including this one, and a pretty active Twitter account etc). I know that Steve Rubel is using it as his main place to post in a lifestreaming style. And the Austin American Stateman newspaper used it to crowdsource images from readers. Plus…

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• badgergravling: If you're not a bike fan, you'll be pleased to know tomorrow is the last MotoGP race of the season. I suspect my other half is!

  7 Nov 2009 | 10:06 am

  badgergravling: If you're not a bike fan, you'll be pleased to know tomorrow is the last MotoGP race of the season. I suspect my other half is!

• badgergravling: Loving the facy my son's vocabulary seems to grow every day. And he's already producing comedy gold...

  7 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am

  badgergravling: Loving the facy my son's vocabulary seems to grow every day. And he's already producing comedy gold...

• badgergravling: @pjeedai So have you missed the train again or just gone for beer?

  6 Nov 2009 | 10:28 am

  badgergravling: @pjeedai So have you missed the train again or just gone for beer?

• badgergravling: @Whatleydude I'm following Arkham Asylum and Forza with MW2 so I'll forward to dying alongside you at some point...

  6 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am

  badgergravling: @Whatleydude I'm following Arkham Asylum and Forza with MW2 so I'll forward to dying alongside you at some point...

• badgergravling: @tojulius You should make a bid on Ebay's offices - maybe they forgot to put a reserve on?

  6 Nov 2009 | 7:02 am

  badgergravling: @tojulius You should make a bid on Ebay's offices - maybe they forgot to put a reserve on?