Twitter got some big play this week: 2 good, 1 bad…let’s start with good…
USA Today had a nice feature on Twitter, Twitter took off from simple to ‘tweet’ success…this quote from the article really gets it right about Twitter these days…
Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.
The outages are the markers of a company that is experiencing success beyond its expectations…
The New York Times ran a story about how companies use Twitter, blogs and other social media to keep up with customer issues and questions…
If you’re scoring at home, that’s two mainstream, huge-circulation newspapers writing positive stories about Twitter this week…if you wonder a couple years from now how Twitter became so mainstream, remember weeks like this…
But not all was well with Twitter this week…the company inexplicably chopped off subscribers from every user…there were a lot of pissed Twitterers…people threatened to leave Twitter…but when the followers were restored?…
“Temporary retraction .. comes back up 50 more followers ? I can’t help it … it’s sticky”
Twitter’s je ne sais quoi…
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I’ve never said jailbreaking…
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SmugMug seems to have figured out FriendFeed’s visual dynamics…SmugMug pictures come thorugh big, bright and beautiful on FriendFeed, especially compared to Flickr pictures…
SmugMug pix on FriendFeed, courtesy of Dave Cohen:
Dave Cohen SmugMug Pictures
Same pix, this time Flickr on FriendFeed:
Dave Cohen Flickr Pictures
Great advertisement for SmugMug…and the little guy is cute regardless of the photo service…
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Noticed a change in my Google Reader shares these days…I’m tending to share blog posts that I haven’t already seen a few times on FriendFeed…that means fewer TechCrunch shares…more emphasis on those nuggets that haven’t seen wide circulation yet…
Figured people were seeing the big blogs enough already…
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I got to do a guest post on Louis Gray’s blog this week…really good reactions out there in the blogosphere, which was great…blogger Barry Schwartz thought enough of the post that he wrote his own post in response, Am I Losing the Connection?…
Unfortunately, Barry got the author wrong…he overlooked the “guest post” announcement at the start of the post, and naturally figured Louis wrote it…from Barry’s post…
- Louis Gray wrote a blog post named Bloggers’ Interactions With Readers Decrease With Prominence
- Louis Gray documents what are “interactions:”
- “It’s these two dynamics that cause some bloggers to head onto the next stage,” explains Louis.
Sigh…I am happy the post resonated, but it’d be nice to get a little recognition…so I left a comment on Barry’s post a few days ago:
Despite the comment, Barry hasn’t updated his blog…Barry – you’re losing touch with your readers!…
Well, I’m not alone…Rob Diana wrote a piece on Louis’s blog, Can Microblogs Just Talk to Each Other?…Dave Winer thought it was Louis’s post…such are the benefits and perils of guest blogging…
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According to Allen Stern, Mahalo employees are busily writing articles for Google Knol…Unsure of Google Knol’s future impact on his company Mahalo, Jason Calacanis is making sure they have plenty of articles with links pointing to Mahalo pages…
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Plan to buy an iPhone this week, if they have inventory…
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See this post on FriendFeed:
http://friendfeed.com/search?q=%22Weekly+Recap+072508%3A+Twittering+into+the+Mainstream%22&public=1
