Monday, August 4, 2008

Twitter, tweeting, tweetup, etc

All,
On Sunday, the Austin American-Statesman ran a story about Twitter, including a "starter pack" of Austin-area Tweeters. Also, here's a great USA Today article from a couple of weeks ago.

No time to read? Okay, here's Twitter in Plain English:




The story was followed on Monday by a real-time chat with a variety of Tweeters and the Statesman's expert, Omar Gallaga (@omarg). Some good stuff is coming out of this -- I'm learning a lot and suggest you go on line and read the transcript when you have time.

In the interim, here are my Twitter Cliff Notes:
  • A site listing newspapers that Tweet
  • Texas Media Guide (@TXMediaGuide)
  • Oklahoma Media Guide
  • Etiquette: you don't have to follow everyone who follows you
  • FailWhale is the cute cartoon whale image you get when something goes wrong/the site is down
  • When Tweeple meet in RL (real life) it's called a Tweet Up. Here's a video from an Austin TweetUp blood drive. Ask me about Uli's adventures in donating blood.




While I'm in a video frame of mind (video? frame? get it? I crack me up!), here's a great gag looking at the present/future of the advertiser/consumer relationship.


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