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  • More microsyntax for Twitter from Chris Messina

    Chris Messina, founding father of the the ever-popular (and sometimes not) Hashtag, has proposed a few more syntax specific ways of doing things on Twitter. Chris is suggesting that we use /via instead of (via @cdevroe), /by for quote credits, and /cc for carbon-copying messages to specific people on Twitter. Chris gives good examples for…

  • Follow me on Twitter

    I joined Twitter in November 2006. Since then I’ve written about Twitter quite a bit and I’ve tweeted over 13,000 times. Wow. That must mean this thing is going to stick with me. So, if you feel like it (and aren’t already) – consider following me on Twitter. Inspired by Justin Blanton’s eloquent plea.

  • Twitter’s trending topics have disappeared

    Lately Twitter’s Trending topics have been full of nearly worthless junk and people asking "Why is ______ trending?". I hope that their removal from the home page is both temporary and evidence that they’re trying to address the problems related to that. Update: 8:13am EST: And they are back. Update 10:20 am EST: Twitter.com, and…

  • Using Twitter favorites to retain value and reduce distraction

    To many of you this may seem like a no brainer but I thought I’d share the way I use Twitter’s favorite feature anyway because I’ve found it very valuable over the last few months. In nearly every Twitter application, and on the site itself, you may favorite a Tweet with minimal effort. On the…

  • Problems with Twitterrific 2 caused by the Twitpocalypse

    Last night while at a bar with a friend I started getting weird errors in Twitterrific 2. I was taking down notes, saving screenshots, all because I wanted to provide a good bug report to The Iconfactory when I had the chance. This morning I quickly checked their site and read this: "We apologize for…

  • Beak, a fantastic Twitter client from Mike Rundle

    John Gruber made an excellent point in his piece called "Twitter clients are a UI design playground". The excellent point I’m talking about is made apparent within the very title of the piece. That Twitter (I’m @cdevroe, btw) is an excellent playground for designing UIs for third party clients. Mike Rundle, whom I had the…

  • Twitter replaces TinyURL with Bit.ly, will they buy it?

    According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb Twitter has "crowned Bit.ly the King of all Short Links" and replaced TinyURL as the default URL shortening service that Twitter uses. (I’m cdevroe, btw) Scaling Bit.ly to keep up with the demands of Twitter, since Twitter is growing at a remarkable rate, is an obvious concern. Will Twitter…

  • Tweetie for Mac – a new Twitter client

    Yes, another Twitter client (I’m cdevroe by the way). However, this one comes from atebits – the company that brought us the highest ranked Twitter client for the iPhone, also named Tweetie. Tweetie for Mac, which I’ve been using all morning, allows for multiple accounts, posting from the browser, auto URL shortening, and much more.…

  • Twitter should buy Bit.ly (or, Yes! URL shorteners DO suck)

    So the Internet is (was on April 3rd) ablaze with the talk of how bad URL shorteners are ever since Joshua Schachter, the guy that built and sold del.icio.us, jotted down his thoughts on them. These facts are nothing new and, I’ll bet, do not allude those that built these services. But, they see a…

  • Shaquille O’Neal encounters two Twitter followers at a diner

    Let me just start off by saying that I think this is excellent in every way. Shaquille O’Neal, the star Center from the NBA, is on Twitter and actually uses it aright. This you may have known already, but if you aren’t one of his 225,000 and counting followers yet, now you know and maybe…

  • Sampling Twitter

    DeWitt Clinton, heckuva name, recently sampled some Twitter data to determine the number of active users on Twitter. The sampling is rather exhaustive (at least for this guy with ADD ((I don’t really have ADD.)) !) and, if accurate, would shed a lot of light on a number of things. I’ve done my own, rather…

  • Wil Wheaton asked to star on Heroes via Twitter

    Wil Wheaton, geek, actor, writer, etc. etc., was asked by Greg Grunberg, the actor that plays Matt Parkman on Heroes, to star in an upcoming episode of Heroes in a cameo role. Last night Eliza and I watched the latest episode of Heroes that starred both Seth Green and Breckin Meyer as cameos (perhaps there…

  • Euro 2008 Twitter bots

    Soccer fan? Well my friend and fellow Viddler team member Kyle Slattery just released two bots for Twitter that you can follow to get both play-by-play and goal-only updates. "Now you can get Euro 2008 right on Twitter. For every update from Soccernet’s GameCasts, just follow @euro2008cup, and if you only want to get updates about goals, follow…

  • The pseudo Twitter follow through FriendFeed

    This is a simple tip on how to "follow" someone on Twitter without actually "following" them.  On Twitter I only follow a select few people.  This helps to cut down on the noise and keep me relatively productive. However, there are some Twitter accounts that I’d like to follow, but not "follow".  Take for instance…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Help Twitter! Use \”server friendly\” tools.

    I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

  • Twitter is definitely down, sorta

    digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech\_news/Not\_seeing\_your\_Twitter\_updates\_Here\_s\_the\_very\_simple\_fix‘; Over the past few days the number of Twitter statuses popping up from those I follow on Twitter have been scarce.  At first I thought it was because I was beta testing the latest version of Hahlo.  Then, I thought it was a problem with the API and so Twitterrific would also…

  • TwitterLocal

    TwitterLocal allows you to enter a city, state, and/or postal code and find people Twittering within 1, 5, 10, or 20 miles from you. A few neat things I’ve noticed while giving this service a spin: It works. Might sound strange but a lot of times when you try tools like this, they seldom work…

  • Poll: Should my site send Twitter notifications?

    Ironically you may be reading this note because you clicked on a link from my Twitter account. My site is setup to post links to Twitter, every 15 minutes, if there was a new post here on my site. I try to add a little context by adding the category before the Twitter status (e.g.…

  • Beware: Twitter updated their API a bit

    My friend Alex Hillman sent me an IM yesterday: "hey, i think twitter might have switched something up on you, on your blog your twitters are there but the time isnt" After doing a little sniffing around I’ve found that Twitter has indeed updated their JSON output for my personal timeline on Twitter and removed…

  • Re: Bluesky

    We now live in a time where many smaller social networks exist, some of them will likely exist for decades to come, and most of them may never reach hundreds of millions of monthly active users and that is a very good thing for the web. It is a bit messy, somewhat confusing, and totally…

  • An interview with Manton Reece for 2024

    I interviewed Manton Reece about his journey with Micro.blog in 2018 and again in 2019. They’ve been fun to look back on as the service matures, grows, and changes. I’m a big fan of Micro.blog and the community there (follow me there, if you’d like) and Manton was very gracious to agree to be interviewed…

  • My appearance on This Week in WordPress #285

    My thanks to Nathan Wrigley for having me as a guest on This Week in WordPress #285. (YouTube/Apple Podcasts) Show notes There are a few links on the WP Builds website for this episode but I thought I’d share some of the links I mentioned in the episode as well. It was a lot of…

  • Hello Hubbub – I’m joining NerdPress

    After a few extremely busy weeks full of rewarding and fast paced work, I’m happy to announce that I’m joining NerdPress as Senior Product Manager. We’ve acquired Grow Social from Mediavine, renamed it Hubbub, and we plan to invest in improving this popular WordPress plugin. Hubbub comes in two flavors; Lite and Pro. Hubbub Lite…

  • Using Wavelength to chat with darkroom printers

    Update July 1, 2024: Wavelength is shutting down July 31, 2024. For the past few days I’ve been testing out Wavelength – a group messaging app that is currently only available on Apple’s platforms. It reminds me a lot of Quill, the former messaging app that was swallowed whole by Twitter just prior to ……

  • I deleted my Twitter account today.

  • Doubling down on Mastodon

    The ease of Ivory on Mastodon has me sharing a lot more than I had been over the last few years. Ivory is on my phone, tablet, and my laptop. It is very easy to write a post, share an image, boost someone else’s post, link to a good blog post, etc. My homegrown static…

  • How to help Mastodon

    There have been several waves of activity on Mastodon since I signed up in 2017. Those waves have increased in frequency and intensity. Admittedly, while I did put in some effort early on, I wasn’t really part of that first wave. I rode in on a much later wave in mid-2022 and haven’t looked back…

  • Blogging is alive and well

    Oh man am I happy! People that hadn’t written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn’t been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up and published to again. And popular news outlets are publishing articles about blogging. Of course, those of us that have…

  • Disbanding the POSSE

    For the past several years I’ve been POSSE-ing. In Indieweb terms that means to publish content on my own site and syndicate it to other platforms. I’ve decided I’m going to discontinue using automation in favor of manually writing posts for each of the platforms I want to post to. I’m doing this for 3…

  • What I saw somewhat recently #97: November 22, 2022

    Enjoying a martini and Leon Bridge’s Tiny Desk concert There aren’t enough links in the world to describe the amount of information I’ve been ingesting lately. The Twitter takeover, the FTX fraud, the hacking of FTX, and the crypto winter. All while maintaining my steady diet of whacky ephemera and art inspiration topped with a…

  • Recent Mastodon vibes

    There is a lot being written about Mastodon lately. And it isn’t just being published on Mastodon. Both Time and Wired have published about Mastodon and its creator within the last week. I wanted to post my current thoughts about the platform to capture the moment. Things are changing rapidly. A lot of things are…

  • Brent Stitcher on owning your audience

    Brent Sticher, who writes a lot about my favorite programming language PHP (don’t @ me), writes about the history of his personal blog and Twitter account and how he now owns his audience. The entire post is worth a quick read. I wanted to back him on on this bit: I’ve managed to build a…

  • Wordle is showing a full cover nag screen and The NY Times is advertising the official board game in pre-roll ads on Twitter. They must be having trouble making that milly back.

  • I’m starting to like Elon’s plan for Twitter more and more. Just get it over with already.

  • Glass observations – an update

    One year ago I wrote Glass observations, a post wherein I wrote about the state of sharing photos on the web, and what I thought about the photo sharing app Glass. This morning I read that post anew to see if my opinion still stands – it does. So if you missed it and were…

  • Twitter is down hard.

  • What I saw somewhat recently #95: June 16, 2022

    It has been over a month since I posted a list of a links. I’ve been very busy lately. In some ways that’s good, in other ways not so good. But, do you know what is always good? Links!

  • How I track social media profile clicks

    Would you like to know how many people found your blog from Mastodon? How about how many people find your YouTube channel via TikTok? Back in my day, when someone clicked on a link from one website to another, the destination site could easily tell where the traffic was coming from. It was called the…

  • I would like to connect with more people that make stuff. Software, art, gadgets, blankets, music, it doesn’t matter. Please recommend RSS feeds, Twitter, Mastodon, Flickr, YouTube, anything.

  • Nyasha Green on the issues within the WordPress community

    Nyasha Green recently published a post that covers a few issues she’s seeing within the WordPress community and offers solutions on how to fix those issues. One issue she calls out is that the community relies on free labor: Paying people for their labor is simply not what the spirit of the WordPress community stands…

  • Tom MacWright on blogging

    Tom MacWright: There just aren’t as many active blogs as there were in the past. I think this has amplified the benefits of blogging: you can make more of an impact and create more of an identity with a blog than you can with Twitter or any siloed social network. I was just having this…

  • My social media bacta tank is working

    For context, you may want to read my post from early January I am quitting social media. There were two main actions I took when I decided to pull the plug on social media. First, I unsubscribed from all accounts in every platform. RSS feeds deleted. Twitter follows razed. Instagram follows flushed. YouTube subscriptions obliterated.…

  • Robin Sloan on Web3

    I’ve been meaning to link to Robin Sloan’s “counterweight to the growing hype” of Web3 for many weeks and forgotten. I think it pairs nicely with my link to Molly White’s Web3 hype damper. Robin’s piece does more than simply attempt to squash the excitement of someone curious about Web3. It is a fair and…

  • I am quitting social media

    Mostly. And, for a year. Or more. What started out as a routine flushing of my social media accounts, something I’ve done on more than one occasion in the past, has now turned into a strong desire to leave social media behind for good. And so I’m doing just that. My main reasons for waiting…