Tag: Twitter

  • @coffee_dad: between the lines

    Have your read @coffee_dad on Twitter? About 60,000 people have subscribed to his feed. At first I wondered if it was a spam account like @horse_ebooks, because most of his tweets are just a few words about coffee… but occasionally there’s something else entirely. A painful story, slowly revealing itself. driving down the road where…

  • 5,000 Tweets

    An accomplishment, perhaps.  Not an epic one.  Moving on.

  • Building an RT Twitterbot

    Creating a ReTweeting Twitterbot used to be easy. My colleague Peter Smith originally pointed me towards Tweetalert, a service which scanned Twitter Search for the hashtag of your choice, then retweeted the associated posts via your own Twitter account, or another you’d created for that specific purpose.  This is how the GCPEDIA and GCconnex Twitter…

  • Hootsuite Fail Page

    Hootsuite’s always been very reliable for me.  Here’s proof it can fail with the same grace and good humour as Twitter.

  • My Tweets about Twitter

    January 26, 2010 My love of #Twitter remains strong, provided I pause to shoot the noisiest bird out of my tree every once in awhile. April 28th, 2010 It’s pretty easy to miss important stuff on Twitter with constant, pesky interruptions like work and sleep. May 4, 2010 Every so often I discover / unfollow…

  • Quit Following Me

    Yesterday afternoon on the bus ride home, I watched from the window as a flock of birds circled and dived around the roof of a high-rise apartment complex. One bird had a slight lead, several others were a length behind, while another three dozen or so were clustered in pursuit. I turned in my seat…