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For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Twitter's Population in pie chart form"][/caption] (now that we're right-side-up again...) I've complained about Twitter's spam-to-human ratio many times before but it seems that since those posts, Twitter spam has only continued to spiral
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So Twitter is down today along with Facebook, LiveJournal, and other miscellaneous social media outages/slowdowns. Is this the finally rise of Conficker, the "sleeping bear" virus? In a word, I have no idea nor do I have confirmed reports. But, you could always go check your Aunt's computer
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...and that is the best advice any marketing, web design, or (GUI) programmer can ever have. We rant about this philosophy of web darwinism here a lot, and there's a very large reason why: the Web, like everything else in society, is not raising the intelligence bar. Instead, we are all plummeti
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So I think most geeks or curious people in general have checked out @Microsoft's long-unused Twitter account, only to find a skimpy amount of followers and no tweets to speak of. Today, that changed in what is apparently Microsoft's effort to get in on the Twitter marketing business (as 1 out of
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The loosely-described Web 2.0 has done nothing short of increasing user interest and interactivity in the Internet's content. ...And spammers are starting to realize and take advantage of this fact. Where the population surfs... ...the spammers and avid self-promoters are sure to follo
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Recall the web of the mid to late 90's: few images, largely informational, and e-commerce was just starting to take off as more and more users joined this new informational network called the Internet. Then, throughout the 2000's, Web 2.0 placed a name on a collection of design patterns to move the
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I love Twitter. I visit the site from a variety of applications, and probably during 85% of my day. It's becoming a bit of a disease for me, but I still can't get enough and have sort of generated my own set of burning, unanswered questions for the Twitter developers, listed below. They aren't meant
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Since Twitter's debut on the web, it has been one of the closest followers of the web 2.0 philosophy. It satisfied a previously unseen niche in the web, practically inventing the "Micro-blog" in a world where everything continually gets smaller and faster in order to satisfy our increasingly attenti
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