May 23, 2012

Mike Rann tweets

Mike Rann on Twitter

I’m impressed the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann, is an active twitterer. He posts news, personal information and opinions several times a day. I’m one of his 1552 followers (and counting) and find his posts interesting. He makes most of them by text message. Here is a recent sample: “I hope other states will follow [...]

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Tumblr and Twitter

Michael Gorey on Tumbr

Regular readers will know that I like to experiment with different web services. Some I abandon as quickly as I try them. There are probably dozens of my inactive accounts floating around various parts of the web. Two that I get enthusiastic about occasionally, forget about, and then return to are Twitter and Tumblr. The [...]

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Identi.ca: Unique or clone?

Identi.ca logo

I was never a big Tweeter, but found the concept strangely compelling. There are many people ranting on the web about service disruptions, but I never used it enough to be troubled. Nevertheless, I like to try new things and stumbled across Identi.ca yesterday and set up an account with the short, early-adopter user name [...]

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Twitter spam

Blog spam

Jessica Dolcourt writes about Twitter spam on Webware. I go through periods when I tweet regularly and then I do nothing for a week. For such an inactive and boring tweeter I was surprised to find that 15 followers had jumped on my bandwagon in the past few weeks. As Jessica points out, it’s not [...]

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