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I wrote this post “Twitter, are you a numbers jockey?” way back in 2009 and it still rings true today.
There still appears to be a consensus that more is more on twitter and the more followers you have the better your opinion will be.
I am watching a “respected” twitter user artificially increase their twitter followers [...]

Before Twitter there was Jaiku and thats where I started out.
It was founded by Jyri Engeström and was later acquired by Google (a lot of its features are in Google Buzz) , at the time it had quite a few problems and I decided to move over to this new start-up called Twitter.
I had already [...]

When Twitter make an announcement its time to wake up and examine the space even more closely but this weeks post of Location Location Location by twitter will change the LBS game.
With twitter now over 20 million users location services become the absolute honeypot. I wrote about the value of location based services recently and [...]

You wake up in the morning, whats your first thought?
“I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS”
Who lives like this?
Well @katelawson worries about getting to 100, @eatingLA begs to hit 1000, and @megalucklylady views @carrie as a hero because she has 10,000.
These people really completely miss the value in twitter.
“Popularity is not an indication of quality.” Vanna Bonta
Check [...]

There are a number of fantastic Twitter clients floating around at present for Blackberry, Android, Symbian and iPhone.
Here are my flavors of the month.

Symbian
Gravity has just been released and its a huge leap from what was available.This is definitely a huge personal favorite. some complaints regarding its cost of €9.46 but not an issue in [...]

I have been discussing this with anyone who will listen especially Mr Mulley over the last two years.
Yesterday Robert Scoble announced that himself and his Mrs, Maryam are having a baby. (congrats Robert and Maryam)
As you can see it set the twitter world alight.
Result
ZERO
In fairness, when we have Shel writing a book which has a [...]

It looks like last weeks twitter post was spot on given the news that twitter is now throttling its API
Does it really matter?
Twitter is now overwhelming
Its out of control, most days in the last seven I have gained 35 followers and lost 7 minimum.
People are following me for no reason,I get messages from people pushing [...]

Every so often Florian Seroussi comes up with an amazing post and guest posts it here.
This one is a stonker of an idea, its comes in a week where Tweetdeck secured $500,000 investment and the channels are alive with chatter of a twitter business plan.
Begins below
The web is full of articles based on how Twitter [...]

This post got me thinking
“93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name”
I know Zappos have done an amazing job with twitter and I have engaged with their CEO Tony Hsieh who has over 30,000 fans including me.
Shel has been interviewing a number of corporate Twitterers for his book Twitterville but I am yet [...]