Adding a description field to Twitter list creation is a simple change which has rolled out today, but it’s a useful one. Not only does it allow you to provide context to people who will view your list (Without creating a list title as long as a book), but presumably it will also be indexed to be searchable, enabling better list discovery. At the moment I’m seeing a huge number of lists created, often with plenty of duplication of topics and titles, and very few followers for each one. A searchable description field aids this somewhat, although it may mean there’s a land grab to be the…
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Add descriptions to your Twitter lists…
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All that Twitters is not gold for Twitturly
18 Nov 2009 | 10:18 amFor a while it seemed as if building a third-party application for Twitter was a route to instant fortune (as were Facebook apps before it, and iPhone apps after it). But judging by the eventual sale of Twitter link tracker and aggregator Twitturly, it appears that bubble may now have burst. Since launching in April 2008, rivals such as Tweetmeme and Topsy have joined the Twitter aggregator space – and when founder Joel Strellner put the site up for auction, just 5 bids came in, with a final price of ‘no more than $8,500′ (HT Techcrunch). Having said that, Strellner has… -
Did you really believe President Obama was using Twitter?
16 Nov 2009 | 12:13 amAlthough most people will have assumed that the @BarackObama account was staffed by members of his team and White House staff, it was easy to hope that a Blackberry-addicted new President might occasionally sneak a tweet in – especially given the account is always in the first-person, and given messages such as ‘Humbled’ on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But it turns out almost 2.7 million people are following the President’s team rather than the man himself, after he spoke in a Q&A session in Shanghai which was streamed on the internet. In it, he fielded a question about Twitter. -
A blogging break…
9 Nov 2009 | 2:31 pmDue to injury and illness, blogging is taking a back seat at the moment… Apologies and normal service will be resumed as soon as possible… -
Not long left to join twitter crowdsourcing experiment
5 Nov 2009 | 1:01 amThis 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…
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badgergravling: @Liam_at_MCN I'm shaving. Just not my top lip. And it's all for a good cause...
20 Nov 2009 | 8:38 ambadgergravling: @Liam_at_MCN I'm shaving. Just not my top lip. And it's all for a good cause... -
badgergravling: Taxi driver last night said my Mo made me look like Charles Bronson - not the serial killer, apparently. Not sure if that's good or not
20 Nov 2009 | 8:10 ambadgergravling: Taxi driver last night said my Mo made me look like Charles Bronson - not the serial killer, apparently. Not sure if that's good or not -
badgergravling: @jaggeree Probably the only ever time I'll be described as rakish!
20 Nov 2009 | 8:09 ambadgergravling: @jaggeree Probably the only ever time I'll be described as rakish! -
badgergravling: Look at http://twitpic.com/q8jv6 and you'll either laugh or recoil in horror. Whatever happens go to http://uk.movember.com/mospace/349892
20 Nov 2009 | 8:06 ambadgergravling: Look at http://twitpic.com/q8jv6 and you'll either laugh or recoil in horror. Whatever happens go to http://uk.movember.com/mospace/349892 -
badgergravling: @guycocker My attempt for Movember is coming along OK http://twitpic.com/q8jv6
20 Nov 2009 | 8:05 ambadgergravling: @guycocker My attempt for Movember is coming along OK http://twitpic.com/q8jv6
