I haven’t talked about it here on the blog before but I thought I would take this opportunity provided by the bad Irish weather, and the even worse ability of Irish people to adapt to said weather to discuss my project. The opportunity provided, by the way, is that an exam scheduled for today has [...]
Twitter has been a huge success. In 2009, anyway. 2008 wasn’t nearly as good, and I predicted several times over (not necessarily on my own blog, mind) that 2010 will be the year twitter goes into decline. The proliferation of spam, useless hashtags for competitions promoting websites, and a top-tier userlist that reads like a [...]
After a short few weeks of bemoaning my €3 purchase of the Twitter iPhone client, Tweetie, @atebits finally updated to include all the wonderful new features twitter has implemented recently. Already with the new client, geotagging was available alongside allowing users to use their own API keys for photo-sharing sites like flickr etc., so I [...]
Twitter has evolved from a small micro-chasm of community-based blogger nattering to a huge massive global movement towards open communication akin to SMS texting. It keeps evolving, too, with the recent addition of GPS tagging tweets and lists to group together twitterers with similar interests in your own follow-list. And today, I was made aware [...]
This is likely to be topical, and spawned from various debates that have gone on lately on twitter among the rather excellent Irish twitter community regarding twitter “experts”, or “social media” experts. Now before I go on, I must say I’ve offered myself up as such. Not selling myself a social media or twitter expert, [...]
