Six months ago, I asked: At Twitter, do you need to be a follower to be followed?" I asked that question because of the increasing belief (obviously perpetrated by marketers and developers of Twitter-related products) that a Twitter-er needs to follow to be followed. With a very small Twitter account, @pinoyjokesnet, we started an experiment. What we did was to occasionally (yes, occasionally, not regularly) send updates to @pinoyjokesnet. … [Read more...]
Tweeting from your WP blog
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account. Each WP post that you write can easily be connected to your Twitter account. But how do you customize your tweets? That is where the problem lies. Well, at least from … [Read more...]
The two sides of Tweet ownership
September 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
The other day, Biz Stone of Twitter came out with an email broadcast that changes had been made in Twitter's Terms of Service (TOS). The modifications address issues relating to advertising, tweet ownership, APIs and spam. Already we hear criticisms regarding the changes in Twitter's TOS. The criticisms are not so much on advertising, APIs and spam. To me, Twitter's stance on these aspects of web publishing is pretty much standard. The one … [Read more...]
At Twitter, do you need to be a follower to be followed?
June 22, 2009 By 3 Comments
Twitter gurus keep on telling us that you need to follow to have followers. That's probably true in order to spread your wings. After all, Twitter is a networking site. We are just curious if a Twitter-er can have followers without following other Twitter-ers. Yes, we have seen Twitter-ers with thousands of "followers" with zero updates. But they are also following thousands of Twitter-ers (more than their followers) who most must have mainly … [Read more...]
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