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  • @ Message Spam
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    @ Message Spam

    I used Twitter’s new “Report as Spam” feature today for the first time, after I got a bizarre @ message from @billy_Napper_ (Following 0, 0 Followers) about the top 10 hosting sites. I don’t pretend to know all the different kinds of spam on Twitter, but there are those spammers that follow you in order…

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  • Awesome Quote from Clay Shirky
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    Awesome Quote from Clay Shirky

    Gives you something to think about, huh? This stuff that’s so natural to us is new and game changing. Who knows what will be different in 5 years time? I can’t wait.

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    Seminar Presentation Abstract

    I’m giving a presentation at Carleton for my Seminar course on October 30th. Title and abstract is below – slides coming soon! Title: Conversation 2.0: Twitter Abstract: The advent of Web 2.0 changed the internet. It went from an information medium to a communication medium. Recent developments have made that communication increasingly real-time. Services like…

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    Mycrocosm

    Last month, I read a paper on Mycrocosm – briefly a site that facilitates “microblogging through stats”. So for the last month I’ve tracked everything I drank, see the graph linked below. Drinks So – big who cares? Well, I found it interesting! For instance, there was a big jump in liquid consumption when our…

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  • What Constitutes Spam on Twitter?
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    What Constitutes Spam on Twitter?

    I don’t know if this is particularly harsh, but I consider anyone who regularly promotes the same website without declaring an affiliation to be a spammer. Sometimes a well-disguised spammer, kudos to that, but a spammer nevertheless. Note – this doesn’t include people promoting their blog on Twitter. I tweet posts from my blog that…

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  • Twitter Graphs…cont
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    Twitter Graphs…cont

    @RebekahHarriman: @RossIGrant: @ponkey_60 – this one is interesting because usually she protects her tweets. She unprotected them for me so I could create the graph. I wonder if people with protected tweets typically have smaller networks? @douglasgresham: @tgrevatt is having a lot of conversations!! With a lot of people who have a lot of conversations.…

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  • Do Twitter Scammers Have Conversations?
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    Do Twitter Scammers Have Conversations?

    I’d like to say a big thankyou to @CoureyGetsMoney for following me (3,109 Following 2,831 Followers). His bio reads: Thanks for checking out my page im a real cool guy making 12,000 a month working from home with GDI I suspect he’s lying about his income and about being a “real cool guy”. I also…

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  • Visualizing your Twitter Conversations: Rationale
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    Visualizing your Twitter Conversations: Rationale

    I’ve frankly been amazed by the number of hits I’ve had on my Twitter Graphs since I put them up yesterday. This is the first phase of something I’m working on, so I’m going to write a little about the logic behind it here. Suggestions or thoughts are very welcome! There was a time when…

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  • Twitter Graphs
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    Twitter Graphs

    UPDATE 9/10: Insight into how this works and the rationale behind this in this post. So after my last post I received a couple of graph requests. Here’s @map_maker‘s, see how I’ve added the directionality. This one took a long time to build. She talks to a lot of people who talk to a lot…

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