66 Awesome Twitter Articles
Not too long ago, the mainstream media discovered Twitter and since have created a storm of articles and opinions on the little social network that could. Today my computer-illiterate mother asked me about Twitter for the first time, and the shock almost knocked me off my flabbergasted feet. This inspired me to filter through some of the clutter and find some quality Twitter articles.
Compiled here is a list of 66 fun, interesting, and informative articles about Twitter.
3. Demi Moore Uses Twitter to Stop Woman’s Suicide Attempt
4. Phoenix Suns Create Twackle
5. Tweeting Between Students, Faculty Gains Popularity at Princeton
6. Call in Your Tweets to Twitter With TweetCall
7. Twitter Makes National Television Debut
9. Moldova’s Twitter Revolution
10. Twitter Wouldn’t Sell for $1B: Better Make Sure It’s Worth It
11. Move Over Twitter, Make Room for Shitter
12. On Twitter, You’re Nobody Unless You’re Fake
13. Kansas City Tree Seeks Friends on Twitter
14. Should Entrepreneurs Twitter? Uh, no.
15. Astronaut Uses Twitter to Detail Training
16. Twittering for Your Business or Just Twittering the Hours Away?
17. No New Trial Over Juror’s Twittering
18. Tips for Journos or Anyone Else Wanting Better Twitter
19. Twitter Can Improve Work Productivity
20. Online Marketing Teams Take Note: Twitter Popularity is Rising
22. I Just Made a Twitter Account
24. Everyone is Twittering, But is Anyone Listening?
25. Lessons Learned from Celebrity Twitter Scandals
26. Survey U Shifts Ditches E-Newsletter in Favor of Twitter
27. Twendy Twitter Spawns New Lingo for Tweople
28. How to Search Twitter Smarter
29. All A-Twitter On Capitol Hill
30. Frisco Man Saves Woman’s Life Thanks to Twitter
31. The Best 10+ Sites To Look For Stunning (and Free) Twitter Backgrounds
32. 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009
33. The 5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance
34. Bakery Uses Twitter to Announce Freshly Baked Bread
35. How Do Celebrities Find So Much Time for Twitter?
36. Twitter Business-Small Business Ideas Through Twitter Offers Unique Marketing Opportunity
37. Using Hootsuite to Manage Corporate Twittering
38. What Twitter is Good For: Restaurants!
39. Graphic Designer’s Guide to Twitter: How to Get Twitter Followers, Increase Traffic, and Get Clients
40. 10 Reasons Why Your Company Probably Shouldn’t Tweet
41. Twitter By Voice: Use TweetCall
42. Twitter Offering Commercial Accounts For a Price
43. DealTaker.com Hand Picks Deals For Twitter
45. Fake Twittering: You’re Doing it Wrong
47. YouTube Gives Twitter Love
48. 11% Tweeting
49. Device Allows Plants to Twitter
50. Is Twitter’s Breakneck Growth Causing Backlash?
51. How and Why to Launch Business Presence on Twitter
52. Twitter Added to Federal Emergency Response Network
54. The Twitter Celebrity Ecosystem
55. Someone’s in the Kitchen With Twitter: Frontier of Foodie News
56. Physician Group joins Twitter Fad
57. Want to Feel Better About Retirement? Twitter Might Help.
58. Twitter Went Main Street Yesterday, Goes Enterprise Today
59. Google Can’t Afford Twitter, No Longer a Growth Stock
60. Field Recording, Pre-amps, and Twitter
61. Does Twitter Whale = Twitter Fail?
62. Simon Cowell Criticises Fellow Celebrities for Twitter Obsession
64. Why You Should Give a Tweet About Twitter
65. Lazy Twitter Stars Call in Ghost Writers
66. The Gay Revolution Will Be Twittered
I Just Made A Twitter Account
And it is so simple. There is nothing to it! I always thought Twitter was a website dedicated to nothing but a Facebook-style status update marquee, and I turned out to be right. I also thought it was a dull concept, but this is where I was completely wrong.
Ok, so I’m a little late to this whole Twitter thing. The website has been going for years and is now receiving a lot of attention from the mainstream media (a few nods on hip TV shows and the flocks of reporters wetting themselves over being an early adapter to the new Internet fad). 90% of you reading this probably have had a Twitter account for awhile now and have melded it into your daily lifestyle.
I can already see who the Twitterheads are on my follower/following lists, they’re filling up my tweet pages with one-liners. It’s great that upon creating my account I was able to add in contacts from various other networks. I felt right at home as soon as I was logged in for the first time, welcomed by many familiar faces and a veritable cornucopia of thoughts, ideas, and other random content. Why did I hold out for so long before joining?
This is just another one of those Web 2.0 creations that is changing the way the Internet works. We’re sharing what we find interesting with our tweets. We’re discovering new information and link destinations through the tweets of others. I’ve already found some new music, a few cool websites, and a great place to get a haircut through Twitter. We’re communicating with each other on a completely different level than we were just a few years ago. It’s all more streamlined and somehow more personal.
But let’s get back to the simplicity factor, it’s true…there is almost nothing here. My profile, all profiles are minuscule compared to most any other social network or web forum out there. Other than your tweets, the only aspects of yourself the world gets to see is your name, a tiny picture, and a bio that condenses the entirety of yourself into a single line. The tweets themselves can be no longer than your average post-it note.
All of that simplicity is just a veil though, hiding a social network that is as deep and addictive as any other. Privacy is thrown out the window as people write on twitter to share their lives and promote themselves and the creativity and beauty they find in their everyday lives. Looking at the tweets of my friends, of celebrities, of random people…it’s all a mash up of lives that are expressed in what I can only call art. It’s beautiful in its own deranged, monotonous, and creative way.
Am I getting a little too reflective for you? I see something with Twitter that I don’t with MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, blogs, etc.. In Twitter’s simplicity and restriction to expression, we are creating something unique and interesting that the world hasn’t seen before. I’ll leave it at that and let you ponder on those thoughts.
I’ve been a Twitter user for under two hours and I think I may already be addicted (between this and StumbleUpon, I don’t know when I’ll get my writing done!). The Twitterverse is still new to me and there may still be some secrets left to explore; I might be compelled to do a followup article.
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