Police in Montgomery County in Texas (Houston area) have decided to post the names of drunk drivers on Twitter. While the police in this county will only do it through New Year’s and other holiday weekends, it raises a great number of questions.
Police in Montgomery County in Texas (Houston area) have decided to post the names of drunk drivers on Twitter. While the police in this county will only do it through New Year’s and other holiday weekends, it raises a great number of questions.
Now that the holiday season has almost passed, there is no better time to look forward to 2010 and make some predictions and goals. Twitter is always seeming to improve as a platform, but there are still some changes that the service can make to drastically improve the user experience of nearly all of the [...]
The holidays are a great time for everyone—even through the yearly hassles of holiday shopping, most people find time to spend with their family and friends while taking a break from work and other obligations.
With additional free time, it leaves the question: how much do you tweet over the holidays, if at all?
Every now and then, I get a direct message from a service called TrueTwit, which provides an external link to a website featuring a captcha. The purpose: to differentiate the human followers from the spam followers.
Users who decide to implement TrueTwit send an automated direct message to all new follows asking for validation. The perceived [...]
Two days ago, Shellie Ross (@Military_Mom) tweeted as her child drowned in a pool.
“Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool.”
Five hours after sending the tweet, Shellie’s child, Bryson, was declared dead.
While countless numbers of blogs and Twitter users have expressed outrage at the incident, let’s examine two main questions [...]
Recently, I have seen some debate in my Twitter stream over whether trending topics should be removed. This is a highly debated topic, so examining trending topics from many different angles was necessary.
Here are a few of the most common criticisms of Twitter’s trending topics and why they should ultimately be removed.
Trending topics are often [...]
POLL: Is Twitter A Spiritual Experience?
I came across an interesting article this morning via the USA TODAY asking whether Twitter was a spiritual experience.
In the linked article, Frederic A. Brussat raises 25 reasons why Twitter indeed is a spiritual experience. After taking a read of his points, it seems that he took some time to develop his ideas and craft [...]
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