Tag Archives: Twitter

Iraqi Government on Twitter

By Dhiren | Published: January 10, 2010
I’ve been meaning to check out Thorne Anderson’s work for quite some time, so today I started to browse through Unembedded. In comparison to traditional press photography, Anderson’s work movingly provides a grittier view of the war in Iraq. After flicking through the online gallery, I decided to share the site via a tweet. As [...]
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Comedians on Twitter

By Dhiren | Published: October 15, 2009
I was asked to look into which comedians are on twitter and the amount of followers that each of them has. Don’t ask, I know, I swear I do more productive things at work.
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Well hello Mr President!

By Dhiren | Published: February 24, 2009
Another fake we think, we’re not convinced by the tiny amount of followers. Btw: As Gary V would say “This is the thunder post!”, post 100 people.
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Apparently I’m not too irritating…

By Dhiren | Published: January 12, 2009
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Tweet with caution!

By Dhiren | Published: December 5, 2008
I was out partying not to so long ago and having access to twitter via mobile, whilst you’re drunk is not a good idea. I must have tweeted about how drunk I was, why? I don’t quite know, I suppose using twitter has become akin to using the phone. You often call people whilst you’re [...]
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Development Frameworks

By Dhiren | Published: November 19, 2008
With so many new web-applications and social websites on the web, I decided to take a step away from the websites themselves and instead deconstruct and analyse the technologies which power them. Most developers currently seem to use MVC architecture based frameworks (MVC stands for Model View Controller), the most talked about MVC based framework [...]
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Twedit Twunch

By Dhiren | Published: October 22, 2008
I’ve just been messing about with some of the twitter analytics tools available on the web in order to gain an idea of how people are reacting towards the credit crunch. All the tools show a recent uplift in tweets during this month and twitter spectrum shows associative phrases around the term. Twist: Twitter Spectrum: [...]
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Geek Meet

By Dhiren | Published: September 28, 2008
So I attented twestival earlier during the week, a sort of social media, web2 and netrentrepreneur gathering all organised via twitter. This was definitely the first media event I had attended, which had been organised through twitter. Some people were shocked about how many agency bods had attended but then what did they expect? A [...]
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Benefits of Microblogging – A real world example

By Dhiren | Published: September 14, 2008
Microblogging has so many versatile marketing uses, however, clients question why they should use microblogs and what are the real benefits? I could probably sit here and write 10 or more obvious reasons, however, one of the most important reasons has to be search engine visibility…I will lend you my real world example: I bought [...]
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Dawdlr – Lifestreaming for the trendies

By Dhiren | Published: August 26, 2008
dawdlr is a I service that I stumbled upon a little while ago; however, I had my interest rekindled by a mention of it in DotNet. I like this app it’s realistic…its lifestreaming at a slower pace, a kind of twitter for those that don’t really care that much. It’s powered by Tumblr family hence [...]
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Plurk another Microblog?

By Dhiren | Published: July 3, 2008
I stumbled upon Plurk the other day, a new dare I say it twitter. It is however not to be confused with twitter as it has some genuine distinguishing features...
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