TheWayoftheWeb

Back in April, when I moved to Wordpress from my old Blogger home, I also started up a new blog, 140Char, to focus on microblogging, and Twitter in particular.
When I started it, it was partly due to the fact I seemed to be writing more about microblogging than marketing, and I hoped to enlist a [...]

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It’s happened again. Yet again, an earthquake has occurred, this time in the U.S. – and yet again I found out about it from Twitter as it happened, rather than from one of the news websites minutes later. In fact, I’d even reported on it, and uploaded an image from Twitter to 140char.com before the [...]

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It’s easy to compare the current and growing rivalry between Twitter and Plurk to the rivalry experienced by Myspace and Facebook. And with Facebook recently becoming the biggest social network in the world, could Plurk pull the same trick with microblogging?
Well, for starters there are some slight differences in the two rivalries. Although Myspace became [...]

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