An online notebook
An online notebook
Boris Johnson has hit Twitter! Marvellous. Only… As of the time of typing, Boris isn’t following anyone. Also, ‘under the auspices’? Jesus wept. Compare this to 10 Downing Street’s much healthier use of the service: Twitter doesn’t work as a…
I’m going to be talking to the good folk at the Central London branch of the British Computer Society this Thursday, on the topic of The Search for Shared Meaning: How Social Media Changes Everything: Blogs, online video, photo…
Whenever I mention Twitter to anyone who wasn’t previously aware of it, the first question they ask is always ‘What is it for?’ Like many social web services, it can be difficult to explain the concept of Twitter. I find…
Steve Dale writes about his uneasiness with a new Twitter mashup service, Twitchboard, which automates the posting of content from Twitter to other social web services. At the moment, all it does is links: if you post a URL to…
There has been quite a bit of twitterfuss over the last week about Mr Tweet, a hideously named service which analyses your current network and then suggests new people that you ought to be following, amongst other snippets of information.…
Tom Watson is making a list of people who aren’t yet on Twitter, but who ought to be for all our benefit. Stephen Fry (if it be he) has become an instant success using micro-blogging platfrom, Twitter. Life would be…
The real value of Twitter is in the network, and if you are just starting out with it, and don’t have many people to follow, or much of a following yourself, it can seem a bit quiet, depressing and pointless.…
Qwitter is an unusual service in that it fills a need that probably doesn’t exist. It simply tells you that someone has stopped following you on Twitter, and what your last tweet was before they did the deed, in case…
It’s been a great start to the day at UKYouthOnline. You can follow the twitter back channel (no snarkiness spotted yet, must be a record) at and I’m uploading a few photos at Do join in by leaving…
Neil Williams has a nice post about the way he has built up his network using Twitter: Twitter, the micro-blogging site to rule them all, has introduced me to more relevant contacts more quickly than any other web 2.0 tool.…