This guy used it to get out of jail.
Personally, I’d prefer not to have the opportunity to use it in that particular fashion, but at least it sounds useful.
I’m trying to make my use of twitter both productive and fun by mentioning my blog posts but connecting them also with interesting things through the day. We;ll see if I get any followers. It may be that I’m just too boring as a person for this to work.
I’ve been on twitter for a couple of weeks now, and I find that it’s very hard for me to do. I simply don’t think in the short form that’s required. Nonetheless, it appears to be a good way to build traffic, and also has high potential for building one’s network and getting (also sharing)…
I subscribe to Inside Higher Ed’s RSS feed, which delivered notice of an article by Alex Golub titled The Flaws of Facebook. Now while I’m going to react negatively to a portion of his work, there are some valid issues he’s addressing. If you’re a professor who might need to place more than one level…
I’ve often wondered about this, and now there’s a discussion going at TechDirt. I suspect the commenter who points out that suing your customers is generally a bad decision, referencing the RIAA. I think that it’s very likely that one will make money via information delivery much more than by simple generation, and if artists,…
Using the AI Assistant I have added Jetpack’s AI assistant to my Threads blog, and today I tested it on a fairly lengthy post. I thought I’d show what it did here. I found its suggestions helpful, and I implemented most. There was another round, but they went beyond the time I was planning to…
I found a new service today via my WebProNews e-mail called Twellow.com. What Twellow.com does is let you easily find people that you might want to follow. It is, as it’s name suggests, a sort of yellow pages for Twitter. For example, it was able to connect me with Teh Ceiling Cat, and who wouldn’t…
This post has some more links on productive use of twitter.
(Note: Page author Henry Neufeld is compensated for sales made through links on this page.)