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My Latest Twitter Applications
Posted by Paul Holmes in business, humour, internet, social media on April 10, 2009
After using Twitter for 28 days, I wrote an article about all the cool stuff I did with it. Since then, well, I went a little crazy.
- For the Victoria Flower Count, we set up the website so that it would announce all the incoming counts on Twitter. This was fun, but it got a little crazy some days … next year we’ll do some sort of digest-style reporting instead.
- In conjunction with our Canadian News Aggregator, CanWire.ca, we launched a wireless edition – Canada’s Mobile News Aggregator at commuter.ca. It syndicates the same breaking news, but in a much friendlier format for iPhones, BlackBerries and other mobile devices. We also tweet CanWire.ca headlines in real time. We use our own URL shortener, tweeting.ca, for the headlines.
- Our Twitter-based Instant Restaurant Advisor is still going strong, of course you can find this on Twitter too.
- For our web design division, we are syndicating our Twitter updates directly into the web design blog. This isn’t rocket science anymore. We Tweeted out a call for people to vote on a new design for one of our websites. We had some great feedback.
- Last, and certainly least, we launched a for-fun site called Twoater. It is like Twitter, only twoats have a maximum of 20 characters, and no vowels or zeroes. Why? Hey, why not! Join the 20-character revolution! Best of all, you can Twoat to Twitter. Now say that 20 times fast!
- I now have 472 “followers”, and follow even more than that – there’s just some amazing content streaming in all the time from all kinds of sources. All told, I’m now involved with (to some extent or another) 11 Twitter accounts.
Best of all, this Twitter stuff is incredibly fun!
“It’s the latest social networking micro-bloggy thingy.”
Posted by Paul Holmes in humour, personal, social media on March 17, 2009
Anyone who’s used or heard of Twitter must watch this video. It’s absolutely hilarious.
Taste The Rainbow of API Timeouts!
Posted by Paul Holmes in humour, social media on March 2, 2009
We have traditional media stunts, so why not “social” media stunts?
We saw an example of this today from Skittles – the chewy candy – where they essentially replaced their www.skittles.com website with a Twitter search for “skittles”.
Great idea. Now that it’s been done, I’m not expecting to see much more of it.
Not least of all because of the complaints about the drain on Twitter’s API.
Most of the time on the page I saw:
Connection Interrupted
The document contains no data.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.
But who cares, as publicity stunts go, this one was a huge success.
Hell, I wrote about it.
Danny Boy
Posted by Paul Holmes in humour on February 25, 2009
I didn’t know you were allowed to spoof this song. Another brilliant Jim Henson moment.
Favourite Videos
Posted by Paul Holmes in humour, internet, music on February 7, 2009
Here’s a collection of my favourite videos on the web.
Twouble with Twitters
Fill It To The Rim
Design Coding
Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
The original clip …
One of the spoofs …
Then, of course, comes the capitalist exploitation, and finally, the investigative journalism.
Chocolate Vader
Almost anything by Remy.
Miss Teen South Carolina 2007
Almost anything from Flight of the Conchords.
Move over Obama Girls!
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