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By: Edward Young

Edward Young — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:57:23 +0000

microblogging is really useful when you want to broadcast short updates. i am still leaning towards traditional blogging.–’

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By: Twitter shovelware and other microblogging experiments « Online Journalism Blog

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:19:23 +0000

[...] a tip from Martin Stabe, I use Twitterfeed to push my blog’s posts – and, equally importantly, comments – to my [...]

By: johncthompson

johncthompson — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:24:22 +0000

I never use Twitter on my phone – when I did it drove me insane and flattened my battery in about two hours.

Instead, I use a desktop application called Twitterific which means I only ever see Twitters when I am online and working, and I get some peace in my leisure hours.

Also, if I follow a link, I get to view it in a browser, not on my phone. Although I can view both my site and the PG’s just fine on my Nokia N95.

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:58:22 +0000

@Mary: wonderful ideas!
@Craig: it’s more about designing sites where content is separated from style, regardless of platform. i.e. CSS, XHTML

By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:26:58 +0000

Good points – especially the one about mobiles – but how many people find they have the time to actually sort out a mobile specific site, especially when phones now have decent sized screens and also allow for shrinkage of sites but still stay relatively readable?

By: Mary Ann Chick Whiteside

Mary Ann Chick Whiteside — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:48:12 +0000

A couple of ideas that I think I’d like to try on Twiitter to engage readers:
- Ask people to twitter in the deals they find on Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Of course, I’d really like them to Twitter in information like “No one in line at Best Buy,” or “Big bargain at Michaels over as no trees left.” or Macy’s at Courtland just put out 100 new 50% off purses.”

– For a big event, or maybe just tickets for a concert, ask people to Twitter in when there are no tickets left, or how many people are in line at one spot. Could this work for parking at a big event? A Twitter telling me parking lot A is full could save me time

– I can see someone Twittering play by play from a golf event like the Buick Open in our area. (Parking twitter would be a big help for this one.). Folks could Twitter back who they want to know the score for.

–I’d love Twitters on traffic. Except I’m not sure that I want to encourage folks who are driving to send Twitters or to read Twitters, now that I think about it. Maybe we could restrict them to accidents and traffic jams

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