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Twitter StreamGraphs

An interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user.

TweetDeck makes managing Twitter Lists a breeze

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was [...]

Social masseuse recommendations

Austin: I need a good rec for a good masseuse. Pros only; no students or pinched nerves. I’ve got a terrible knot under my shoulder blade. – 4:55 PM Mar 18th
Six reputable masseuse recommendations in 20 minutes. These are from people whom are local and whose opinion I value. This is the power of social [...]

Using social media in real-time during times of war

Israel is making full use of social media to sway public opinion and convince the world at large that their offensive in Gaza is a justifiable response to the constant missiles being rained upon them from Hamas-controlled territories. (I’m not going to debate whether they’re correct or not. I’m just listing the social media tools [...]

Google indexes Twitter search queries

 
I did a Google search on the #tcot Twitter hashtag to determine what it stood for (Top Conversatives on Twitter as far as I can tell). I was pleasantly surprised to see the search.twitter.com service featured in it’s #1 spot.

Tweet-Up Blood Drive docublog

I’m at 1:40 or so: Tweet Up Blood Drive – Mash-up .

Blood Drive Tweetup and Why Michelle is Awesome

Michelle Greer asks you to come to the Blood Drive Tweetup. It’s an awesome idea and shows why Michelle is such a cool person. Her energy is boundless.
Do it.

Twitter is becoming my breaking-news source

What news have you heard or seen on Twitter first? I’m talking about the kind of news that would’ve been breaking on CNN had you been watching at the time. After each of these tweet discoveries, I went to the Internet to find out more.
Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, [...]

Twitter’s WWDC 2008 uptime strategy

It appears that part of Twitter’s strategy to mitigate downtime during WWDC 2008 this year is to push tracking, and therefore traffic and constant refreshing, of the event over to third-party search service, Summize. I’ve noticed before that Summize will often not return the most recent tweets associated with a search. So, it may [...]