I compiled snapshots of the tweets Wednesday night from locals covering the Barack Obama campaign stop in Bloomington, Indiana. They included the pledges of allegiance and child bearing, as well as a fainting man (who is likely this guy from Comedy Central, so watch Thursday’s show). I’ll save commentary (except my own below, in tweet form) for a later date.
Battletweets
Like many, I got some twam (twitter + spam) on March 20 last week pointing me to Battletweets. I didn’t follow them initially, partly because their site didn’t have any information. Now it does, so now I do … at least for a little while. Whether the new Twitter game that is currently in development becomes a source of noise or community remains to be seen.
Twitter in Plain English
CommonCraft does it again. Twitter is deep enough that the LeFevers could do a couple follow-ups.
Twitosphere
Over the weekend, I finally made good on a months-long pledge to build a website that would archive tweets from local twitterers. The Indiana Twitosphere uses a WordPress platform and Charles Johnson’s great RSS plug-in, FeedWordPress, to keep tabs on the individual contributions of over 150 known Hoosier twitterers.
One Million Twitterers
In March 2007, Twitter became the darling of the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. An award-winning presence there launched the microblogging service into the Web 2.0 stratosphere, leading to capital investments and a community of developers and fans. By the time SXSW returns next month (March 7-16), Twitter almost certainly will have surpassed one million members.
TweetStats
TweetStats is a nifty way to visualize in simple bar charts our entire history of using Twitter. The metrics are going to change in the future, but these core stats are likely to persist. I ran the Makice family accounts through the TweetStat engine and confirmed that I never sleep.
Bloomington Startup Weekend is underway
I’m exhausted. I had to schedule a night of sleep before the three-day marathon at City Hall, and it was difficult to fall asleep. It was amazing to see the council chambers fill up. Not all of our hundred hoosiers made it through the front door, but we generated a bunch of ideas with merit. The one we chose deals with event search.