What about this Grundy guy?

Posted 01.03.2010 in Twitter

Here I sit in my ivory tower passing judgment on Twitterers that I deem worthy. And by ivory tower, I mean 2nd floor bedroom. Nevertheless, I want to give you the opportunity to give my tweet stream feedback. This is an open thread for just such a purpose. Am I funny? Interesting? Linkable? Lemme know [...]

#MusicMonday: What’s Your Theme?

Posted 12.16.2009 in Twitter

A Twitter friend of mine @JennWebb recently inspired a Music Monday tradition last week. I asked my followers to sum up their day in 140 characters (or less) for me to score. No, I’m not grading your life, no judgment here. I’m the assigning a score–a theme, a soundtrack, a musical accompaniment–to your day. More [...]

The Reputation Question

Posted 10.19.2009 in Twitter

The idea of Twitter reputation has been evolving since the conception of the service. It started out in the simple form of follower counts–the more eyes on your tweets meant the more important and interesting you surely were. This was never completely true, but it was more true then than it is today. The follow/followback [...]

Mission Statement

Posted 06.22.2009 in Mission, Twitter, slider

Let’s face it, convincing your analog friends to join Twitter is an uphill ride on Lame Street. I’ve always depended on the tweets of strangers, and I plan on reviewing the strangest right here on Finer Flings. The criteria for final judgment has been painstakingly researched by an infinite number of chimps speed reading through [...]

My “Work” Flow

Posted 06.20.2009 in Twitter, slider

The key to Twitter’s success lies largely in the community behind it. Unlike Facebook, Twitter was fairly open from the onset, pushing it’s easy to use API. From it, developers have stretched out Twitter’s uses and capabilities further then I suspect even Ev and Biz thought possible. I also suspect, there are more Twitter work [...]

The Good, the Bad, and Twitter

Posted 06.20.2009 in Twitter, slider

Twitter has gone from Internet tool to real-world fad in the past month and change. CNN and that 70s guy have contributed a lot to this analog conversion, but as with most things I don’t understand, I blame Oprah. Now Twitter is swarming with accounts that are either dead or dying. The frequency of tweets [...]