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What Does Your Twitter Avatar Say About You?

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Tweets are short at 140 characters, but a Twitter avatar must visually represent a user in just 2304 pixels. If you’re a liberal, you have a green avatar and tweet from TweetDeck on your iPhone while driving your Prius. Tags: Social Media avatars Twitter twitter. People do crazy things.) It’s kind of creepy.

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Twitter Blocking Recurring Tweets in Realtime

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I discovered last night that Twitter is not simply blocking recurring tweets as reported elsewhere , they’ve actually implemented filters that physically block recurring tweets. I was using Tweetie , an iPhone Twitter client. Tags: Social Media Twitter recurring tweets spam tos TOS twitter.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. And the iPhone 3GS and Posterous represent the latest advances in real time communications. I used it to post an iPhone Audio Memo to my blog and it worked flawlessly. The iPhone 3GS has solved the video problem.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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And Yelp is an interesting player in this market, boasting a huge user base (huge by Foursquare standards) that it brought into the location-based world with an iPhone app earlier this year. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25 million users back in January, compared to around 500,000 today on Foursquare*. Wagers anyone? *

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. Brightkite 2.0

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Could you go social-network-free for one day a week?

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Could you get by for a full 24 hours, or more, with no access to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or any of your other favorite social media tools? And you can’t cheat and use TweetDeck to access Twitter. If Twitter or Facebook had the ability to shut you out for one or more days, would you enable it? and I feel no sense of loss.