Tag: twitter

  • Twitter vs. FaceBook

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    Tom Raftery
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    While everyone talks about the power of FaceBook as a cool means of getting a message out, you hear very little about the power of Twitter as a communications tool. I inadvertantly compared the two in recent months and found that Twitter was by far the more potent communications tool (in my unscientific test, at…

  • Blame it on the Twitter!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been very quiet on this blog for the last few weeks – apologies for that but I can’t promise on the pace returning to the two or three posts a day I was averaging at times last year. Why? I have been spending a lot of time on the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Twitter…

  • Congrats to the guys in Jaiku

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may be out of luck because in the notification email sent out by Jaiku last night…

  • Twitter finally enables Twitter profile search

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    Tom Raftery
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    One of the issues with Twitter has always been, apart from straining your eyes looking at the photos in the sidebar on people’s profiles, there was no way to find people you wanted to add as friends. Twitter solved that yesterday with the addition of a Search box. How did that functionality take so long…

  • Eamon O’Brien – great to meet you again!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Eamon O’Brien was a neighbour of mine as a kid. Eamon is a couple of years older than me but we knew each other well. Before yesterday, I hadn’t seen Eamon in around 15 years but his mother and mine were very close so I was always kept up-to-speed on Eamon’s goings on. In the…