Nokia usually isn’t in a place to talk when it comes to mobile competition — unless the target of its mockery is BlackBerry.
Twitter now allows you to e-mail tweets from the web: Because this makes sense as a feature introduction in 2012, apparently.
Earlier Bryson tweet with hashtag ‘#skills’ attempted levity (before facts known) and failed miserably. We took it down and regret the tweetKarl Rove-run Super PAC American Crossroads GPS • Apologizing via tweet for suggesting that Commerce Secretary John Bryson’s weekend hit-and-run accidents might have been the result of drunk driving. Maybe it’s just us, but a Twitter apology seems like, quite literally, the absolute least you could do after realizing you are 100% in the wrong. Um, may want to have a press conference, Karl. source (via • follow)
Want people to click your stuff on Twitter? According to Twitter supergenius Dan Zarrella, there’s a science to getting people to click. He knows. He did the research. The biggest surprise for us? Actually, there’s two: First, people actually click those Paper.li links that get posted on Twitter accounts. And second, the best spot to place a link is not at the end of a tweet, but about 25 percent in. Whoa. (ht Poynter)
Dear Kanye West: If you’re gonna rant like this, get a Tumblr. Also, you seriously think you’re going to be the next Steve Jobs? Really?
Apparently a lot of people on twitter are very confused.
In which people fell asleep during religion class.
ben says: I thought twitter was making embed tweets?
» SFB says: They did. However, the embedded tweets don’t work in the “video” style, and in the “text” style (where they’d make more sense anyway), they look like this:
instead of this:
And since most of our readers come from the Tumblr dashboard, it unfortunately leads to a poor user experience. From our end, it looks like it requires adding a single javascript file to the dashboard. But we could be wrong about this — we’re not engineers. Either way, this would be cool for Tumblr to do! :) — Ernie @ SFB
Today in uncalled-for responses to articles we wrote. We also responded to this guy a couple more times, just for good measure. (The funny part? His name is spelled Lowrie, not Lowry, something we corrected from last night after we found more info.)
Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr...
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
In 2007, I was...
I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of...
Video, from Eric Fischer:
Green dots are tweets about earthquakes. Gray dots are tweets about other topics. Each frame is one second (total of 12 minutes). Thanks to Natural Earthfor the land, water, and boundary shape data and the Twitter Streaming API for the tweets.
Neat little graphic.
Frequent Twitter users can lull themselves into believing that the Twitter-verse is representative of society at large; likewise, journalists and editors can mistakenly trust that their Twitter followers are representative of their organization’s audience.Lauren Kirchner, Beware the Twitter Echo Chamber • Saying exactly what many people need to hear. Now, Facebook’s a different story. Heh. (via copyeditor)
Developers have told us that they’d like more guidance from us about the best opportunities to build on Twitter. More specifically, developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no.Twitter platform team leader Ryan Sarver • Revealing that the company, which built itself on the back of third-party clients, will no longer allow new ones to crop up. However, the ones there can still operate – well, that is, as long as they uphold high standards set by the company. Hear that? That’s the chirp of a bird that got really arrogant after it learned how to fly. We’re sorry – third-party clients basically built this platform and for Twitter to change the game now seems completely uncool. source (via • follow)
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