“I’m qik’n an awesome video of a protest i saw in t sq. The frosting came from a cbc camera man who got his passport stolen by police” – Noel Hidalgo
The Twitties
By the time the second annual Twitties rolls around, there will be over a billion new candidates for a handful of awards.
Twitter StreamGraph
Canadian programmer Jeff Clark released a new visualization that leverages Twitter content from Summize. The StreamGraph examines the last 200 tweets and parses them into a time-arranged stacked graph.
Monetizing Twitter
Samir Balwani noted some of the problems microblogging companies will face in monetizing their product. Stakeholders in Twitter have wondered how Union Square Ventures will get their ROI.
Twitscoop
A sure sign that Twitter is regaining good health: the third-party applications are returning. TweetScan, for example, sent me my first email summary of a few tracked words in almost a month. And we are still getting new ones. Welcome, TwitScoop.
Not Richard Dawkins
Stolen identity is not uncommon in the online world. The microblogging darling Twitter was not immune, with people spoofing tweets for everyone from Bill Gates to George Bush. Now, it is atheist Richard Dawkins’ turn.
FriendFeed-ing Frenzy
It has been a rough stretch for Twitter. Despite another influx of funding, continued downtime and issues with terms of service policies served as a final straw from some members of the community. Where Twitter seems to have held off Jaiku and Pownce, it is an uber-aggregator of microcontent—FriendFeed—that has become the destination of choice among disgruntled twitterers.