Tech Essentials | What is Twitter Anyway?
The Tech Whisperer previews the best in new technology
by Scott Valentine
Three Useful Twitter Tools
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Twinfluence Keep an eye on your Social Capital rating. It tells you how influential the people who follow you are. | Twibes Browse, join or start a Twitter group. Are you into #something_completely_off_the_wall? So is @somebody else. | Tweeter Twitter on your mobile device while avoiding text message charges under most cell plans. |
Chatter on the Home Front
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@AlbertaTalks User-generated media site for Albertans. All day, all night, all Alberta. | @NHL_Oilers Official Twitter page of the Edmonton Oilers. Two minutes for checking your iPhone during the game. Advertisement | @premierstelmach Yep, Steady Eddie is something of a Twit in his own right. Recent post: “Interesting dinner – traditional Viennese, a pork schnitzel as big as a hubcap. May be digested by time we get back to Alberta.” |
No Glitter for Twitter?
It pains me to say this stuff because the Tech Whisperer loves tech. TW feeds on tech. But TW also gets paid to tell you the truth about tech and the truth ain’t always popular. TW called B.S. on Wang Computers, Y2K and Blu-ray, though you weren’t there to hear it. TW says have fun with Twitter because it’s a kitschy little technology with nice curb appeal but don’t you dare spend a penny on it. Having said that, here are three people who completely disagree with me:
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@OPRAH Talk show host, producer, crazy-rich media powerbroker. You may have heard of her. | @GUYKAWASAKI Internet marketing guru, media personality, one of the world’s top Twitterers, chick magnet. | @GOD Recent post: “It kind of sucks [for me] that the words omnipotent and impotent sound so similar. I really have to enunciate.” |
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