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An Unkindness of Ravens: Thoughts on Twitter Communication

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” So #4 got me thinking about #3 – how “Twitter,” as an anthropomorphic name, perfectly describes that chaotic, disparate, competitive, showboating raucousness of #1. Gulp of Magpies. …Taking shiny stuff from other people’s feeds and tweeting it as your own. I can find examples of each group in my own feed.

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Twitter and Television: A Match Made In Heaven

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It’s so cool to see your feed explode when (GoT SPOILERS) Ned Stark loses his head or (Fargo SPOILERS) Gus shoots Malvo. My experience is that Twitter has become very intertwined with primetime television. So when NBC Universal Research Chief Alan Wurtzel had this to say about Twitter and the Olympics , I was shocked.

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What If Twitter Did Buy TweetDeck?

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around the Twitterverse last week with the news that Twitter is in talks with TweetDeck to purchase the ridiculously popular third-party service for the low, low price of just $50 million. That said, the opinion that this may not be the best of situations brewing for my all-time favorite Twitter app was quickly formed. The answer?

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On The Death Of Google Reader

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But is this just a sign of RSS feeds becoming a part of Internet Past? Before Google announced they were shutting down Reader , I hadn’t looked at my feed in months, maybe a year, or more. ” This is mainly because Twitter has become my RSS feed over the last couple of years. He also blogs.

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Are You Using Social Media to Talk to Yourself?

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Of all the people you follow on Twitter what percentage have interests or values different than your own? Once you are on a tour and covering a campaign you are looking on Twitter but the people who are on Twitter, they are junkies and so your mirror is not a window to the world,” said Hébert. They are mindblowing.

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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In this post I’m going to focus on four social platforms where any publisher can leverage distributed content to better control their social messaging: Facebook, Apple News, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Facebook also allows you to submit RSS feeds from your organic site that will parse and publish these to the Facebook platform.

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]

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To make it as easy as possible, here it is in steps: #1: Get Hootsuite and Twitter set up. #2: 3: Live out the rest of your life and let Twitter do the rest. There are stories here and there of feeds automatically updating by retweeting on automated settings. 2: Use Hootsuite to schedule messages far into the future. #3: