At the moment Twitter’s web interface is only available in four languages – English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Also on the way now are Italian and German. So Twitter Inc have decided to increase support for the world’s languages, which is an excellent move. They’ll be asking users to collaborate on translating the interface, which [...]
Veteran blogger Meg Pickard wrote an insightful post last month about how the adoption of Twitter has mirrored that of blogging before it. Twitter the company never describe their service as “microblogging”. That’s a smart move from the viewpoint of marketing the service to people who might have preconceived ideas about blogging. But mainly, it [...]
Happy new half-year! Back in January I made a resolution to leave my inbox empty every night. I have partially succeeded. It’s forcing me to make those little decisions. It’s a lot more manageable. Hooray! At times I’ve let it slip. But there’s no use feeling any guilt over it. Guilt won’t motivate me, it [...]
Meet the Wordwhale. If you like solving anagrams, the Wordwhale is now pos(t)ing one daily. Follow @wordwhale to join the lexical fun. (You don’t need to be signed up to Twitter to try solving it. You can still view the webpage twitter.com/wordwhale to monitor what’s going on and try solving it. But if you’d like [...]
Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance. Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing [...]
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