#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 [...]

ActuallyNPH

Posted 12.11.2009 in Review, slider

There is a new celebrity on Twitter, and this one is actually funny. It is a refreshing departure from the comedians who get credit for on-screen talent but fail to translate said talent to text. 140 one-liners is a requisite to get into showbiz, but if you can’t perform in all media, people suspect that [...]

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 [...]

hotdogsladies

Posted 06.29.2009 in Review, slider

One of the early follows responsible for my continuous use of Twitter was hotdogsladies. The man behind the handle is the productivity wizard Merlin Mann, best know for his 43Folders blog which is best know for Inbox Zero which is best known for managing your email. What made me come back to Twitter in the [...]

BlueLanugo

Posted 06.25.2009 in Review, slider

With an economic recession, a growing pandemic and possible thermonuclear war making headlines, it’s no wonder that people turn to the Daily Show for the lighter side of the coming Apocalypse. I ask, is there a Twitter equivalent? I answer, yes. Does this toga make me look frat? Bluelanugo could very well be a Daily [...]

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 [...]