The Weaponization of Social Media

Open the Future: #War

Ouch! Analyze your tweets.

Good Zed Shaw talk (in tweets)

(Covers everything from python to music to banks and economic crash.)

Interesting ... followed by a recruiter on Twitter. He just seems to twit job adverts.

Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter. :-)

Mr. Tweet is social network analysis bot you access via Twitter. Simply follow it and it searches your network for influential people.

Clever.

Though it's not necessarily obvious that just because a lot of people I follow are following someone else, I also need to be.

Compare and contrast : Laconica and NoseRub

(You do it, lazyweb, I'm too busy)

Update : and while you're about it, how 'bout a port to Application Engine too. :-)

(Once again, definitely not me.)

Diesel Tweetie

any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice

should be written on the neocons' tomb

You don't understand Twitter!

That's OK. It's kind of weird and hard to get your head round. And if you aren't using Twitter, absolutely there is no way you're going to understand it. It looks ridiculous; the most pointless thing ever,

But the hype is justified. Twitter is unlike anything else out there. A kind of Flow Internet version of del.icio.us. The most successful example of Zby's "social routing" I've seen. The nearest thing to plugging yourself live into massively parallel hive-mind.

Update : Big Scribe post on Twitter today.

I notice I've been link-blogging a lot recently ... and not in Twitter.

Don't think Twitter is for link-blogging ... these links are still something to present, not merely mention in conversation. Twitter is conversation. My blog is "performance".

Wow!

Have a look at FlickrVision and TwitterVision.


And this screensaver is gonna be amazing.

Oh, and I have a Twitter account, though I don't really get it yet.