Category Archives: twitter

Reasons for a Private Twitter Stream

May
5
2009

People have often asked me why is your twitter stream is set to private.   Why don’t you just open it up to the rest of the world like everyone else does.  Don’t you get this social networking thing.  Why are you just trying to keep things private, when if you have a footprint on the web it’s just a little pointless.

Well yes there are lots if good reasons to open up a twitter stream to the public, here are a few:

  • It’s really easy for people to decide to connect with you if they can read your previous tweets.

Introduction to Twitter Mainstreaming

Mar
17
2009

Well Twitter is mainstreaming, as we all know, every man, woman and child it appears wants to be on Twitter.  They are all trying to work out what this latest crazy is all about. It’s been an interesting road with Twitter from the early days in late 2006.

For a while there it really did look like Twitter wasn’t going to make it over the fail whale. But here we are on the tail end of another South by South West conference  and Twitter isn’t missing a beat.

Open Twitter

Sep
1
2008

Rusty Gate

If you think about it Twitter is a bit of a walled garden, a closed system as Sean Carmody has pointed out.  You have to be on Twitter to use Twitter; a little like Facebook or AOL.  Maybe what we need to step beyond Twitter into an open message distribution service, this would help with the load issue if nothing else.

Stepping beyond the walled garden will allow services like Twitter to jump the shark and avoid the problems AOL had. They were popular with the early adopters to start with, then the mob got bored and moved on, the shininess and gloss just waned away.

Twitter takes Gun to Foot!

Aug
14
2008

At Paddy's Paddock, Perth Western Australia

Yeah you know I have ranted about Twitter and it’s  messaging service for a while now.  Well Twitter has had a few issues scaling and the like.   Remember it’s not your standard web application, it’s a many to many messaging service.

Anyway besides the ongoing Fail Whale saga, this morning via an email the Twitter team announce that they are turning off the SMS side of the service, except in certain countries.   And yes you guessed it Australia is one of those to get it in the neck.