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Why Do So Many Still Fail To Understand Twitter?

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I use to consider myself a computer enthusiast. I don’t any more, nowadays I like to think of myself as a tech junkie. I love my gadgets… my TiVo, my iPhone, my Garmin, and my game consoles. I enjoy reading about new technology and gadgets, and the latest trends on the social networks. I really don’t care what video card or processor I have in my system, and I can swap any component out without much of a thought. It’s pretty strange, considering I’m an administrator for OverclockersClub.com, a large computer enthusiast community.

Today is Monday, and like always I created a new “weekly poll” in the OCC forums. This week’s poll came by request from Dave, the owner and operator of OCC. He wanted to know how many people on OCC used Twitter. I knew this was going to be a one way street, but I went ahead and posted it. Continue reading →

Redesign Week

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Looks like the last week (or whenever) was “redesign week”. Both Twitter and FriendFeed made major changes to their sites. Not eactly sure when either of these happened, considering I haven’t really used these services that much in the past.

While the Twitter redesign is nice, it’s still very uninviting. However the FriendFeed update kicks ass. In fact, I’ve probably spent more time on Friendfeed this past week then I’ve spent since I first created my account. Major props to them!

View me on Twitter | FriendFeed | Plurk

Nirvana

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I’ve been using Plurk for a while now, and have rather enjoyed it. This evening, I reached a major milestone on the service called “Nirvana”. One achieves this status when their karma rises above 81.00.

Karma is a highly debated subject among Plurk users right now. Some feel that it hurts the service, while others (me included) think that it helps promote interaction, discourages spamming, and ads some fun to it. I must say, compared to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and the number of other similar services, I’ve used Plurk far more often.

What does it take to obtain the highest level of karma? Not much really… in fact, I would have been at Nirvana a lot sooner had I not had a 2 week break a few months ago due to vacation and crappy (no) Comcast service. See my karma trend.

Right now, my stats on Plurk are:

  • Total Plurks: 727
  • Total replies: 2677
  • Friends invited: 6
  • Profile Views: 2495
  • Friends: 294
  • Fans: 67
  • Member since: June 2008

As you can see, while I’ve been fairly active, I’ve not really been that active. This brings to question, is Nirvana to easy to obtain? Ask anyone who has it, and I’m sure they’ll say it’s to hard to maintain.

Plurk Update

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Sometime today a Plurk was updated and a “Responded Plurks” tab was added under the time line. Right now it looks like it only goes back to mid afternoon yesterday, which if I were to guess would be about the time they pushed the feature out to the server.

This is something a lot of us Plurkers have been waiting for. I’d expected to see a big increase in the number of plurks as people are now able to keep track of messages easier. Yet another thing that sets Plurk apart from the other services.

What Have You Done Lately?

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I posted a while back about SocialVibe, and thought with it being the 4th of July (at least for another hour or so) that it’d be appropriate to post about it again. ;)

Basically SocialVibe is a services that brings many different companies together (Apple Computer, Coca-Cola, Sprint, Nike, and UFC to name a few) in order to raise money for your favorite charity. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is the charity I’m helping raise money for. That’s just one, there are many others that you can select like WWF, Invisible Children, OLPC, and Do Something.

It’s simple to participate. Create an account, select what your cause is, select who you want to sponsor you, and then place the SocialVibe “ad” on your blog or social network profile. Each time the SocialVibe ad is viewed, you help raise money for your cause. And if that wasn’t enough, some sponsors even offer perks where you can earn or win rewards for your participation.

You know me, I wouldn’t be asking you to do something like this if I didn’t believe it was for a good cause. ;)