“ Addicted to a medium in which every fleeting thought seems worthy of recording and sharing with everyone, we have stopped filtering ourselves. He says the result is disinhibition, a psychological term that describes a lack of restraint and an inability to edit our thoughts. In 150 years of electronic messaging, the problem has grown exponentially worse. In 1844, the world’s first telegram sped from Baltimore to Washington carrying the words: ”What hath God wrought?” By contrast in 1971, the first email exchange to feature the @ symbol was a meaningless jumble of letters and numbers.
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[2 years ago]
“ Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman (one of our Most-Creative People) started a new fairy tale on Twitter—and the world wrote the rest of it. Users tweeted lines for the story, helping it unfold on BBC Audiobooks America’s twitter feed. The now-finished story has been edited and released as a free audiobook available at the BBC’s site and iTunes.
“ Your profile page is the only place on Twitter where you get opportunity to showcase your visual brand and possibly communicate additional information that can last longer than a tweet. You can customize your profile page by changing background, text and link colors. It’s as simple as changing the skin, but ability to change background image has allowed designers to create really unique profile pages. Primary focus of this article is to explore various techniques to create unique, memorable and effective Twitter profile pages. However, before proceeding to the list, it is important to briefly discuss the structure of the Twitter profile page…
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[2 years ago]
“ Below, the nine most effective ways to get retweeted on Twitter:
Twitter is over-capacity.
Indeed.
Time to grow up now, Twitter.
