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href="http://twitter.com/coachdeb"><strong>Deb</strong></a>, made an interesting assertion at the <a
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url="http://blip.tv/file/get/L0ckergn0me-WhatIsTwitterGoodFor172.mp4" length="24036342" type="video/mp4" /> </item> <item><title>Who is Tweeting in Your City?</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/who-is-tweeting-in-your-city/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/who-is-tweeting-in-your-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[geo-chirp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[geochirp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[location]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category><guid
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>Yes, I&#8217;m on Twitter. I&#8217;ve been there for a few years now, and have a bajillion or so followers. I think I&#8217;ve now tweeted out around 10,000 different things. Not too shabby, eh? I&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;re on Twitter, since it seems most everyone is. But do you know who else in your city or area is also running around on Twitter? Do you know how to find them and see what they&#8217;re talking about?</p><p>If you answered no, then you need to check out <a
href="http://www.geochirp.com/">Geo Chirp</a>. GeoChirp helps you search for people Twittering for specific things in a specific area. Let&#8217;s say you want to find people in your location who are tweeting about the iPhone. Select the area in your map on Geo Chirp, and set the radius to 1-50 miles. Enter keyword <strong>iPhone</strong> and boom! You have a list of all of the people in your area who are talking about the iPhone on Twitter. This definitely makes GeoChirp the most powerful tool to connect with people of similar interests in a particular geography.</p><p>You don&#8217;t only have to search your own area, of course. What if you were attending a conference in Texas in the near future, but you live in Oregon? You might want to use Geo Chirp to find out what people in the conference area are talking about, and who the movers and shakers are in that location. Did I forget to mention that Geo Chirp gives you a list of the most popular Twitter users in any given area?</p><p>If you want to find out who is tweeting in your area, and what they&#8217;re talking about, Geo Chirp makes it exceedingly easy and fast. There honestly is no simpler way to accomplish these tasks. Everyone uses Twitter for different reasons, and there&#8217;s no one right way. Try using Geo Chirp to help you find out what&#8217;s happening in your area.</p><p><ul><li
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>Yes, I&#8217;m on Twitter. I&#8217;ve been there for a few years now, and have a bajillion or so followers. I think I&#8217;ve now tweeted out around 10,000 different things. Not too shabby, eh? I&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;re on Twitter, since it seems most everyone is. But do you know who else in your city or area is also running around on Twitter? Do you know how to find them and see what they&#8217;re talking about?</p><p>If you answered no, then you need to check out <a
href="http://www.geochirp.com/">Geo Chirp</a>. GeoChirp helps you search for people Twittering for specific things in a specific area. Let&#8217;s say you want to find people in your location who are tweeting about the iPhone. Select the area in your map on Geo Chirp, and set the radius to 1-50 miles. Enter keyword <strong>iPhone</strong> and boom! You have a list of all of the people in your area who are talking about the iPhone on Twitter. This definitely makes GeoChirp the most powerful tool to connect with people of similar interests in a particular geography.</p><p>You don&#8217;t only have to search your own area, of course. What if you were attending a conference in Texas in the near future, but you live in Oregon? You might want to use Geo Chirp to find out what people in the conference area are talking about, and who the movers and shakers are in that location. Did I forget to mention that Geo Chirp gives you a list of the most popular Twitter users in any given area?</p><p>If you want to find out who is tweeting in your area, and what they&#8217;re talking about, Geo Chirp makes it exceedingly easy and fast. There honestly is no simpler way to accomplish these tasks. Everyone uses Twitter for different reasons, and there&#8217;s no one right way. Try using Geo Chirp to help you find out what&#8217;s happening in your area.</p><p><ul><li
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/tweetdeck/" title="TweetDeck">TweetDeck</a></li><li><a
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-visualize-twitter-tweets/" title="How to Visualize Twitter Tweets">How to Visualize Twitter Tweets</a></li></ul> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://chris.pirillo.com/who-is-tweeting-in-your-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How to Get Feedback for Your Web Site via Twitter</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-feedback-for-your-web-site-via-twitter/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-feedback-for-your-web-site-via-twitter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twifeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web-site-visitor]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=13846</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-feedback-for-your-web-site-via-twitter/">How to Get Feedback for Your Web Site via Twitter</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p><object
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/> <a
href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>It seems that everyone has a Twitter account these days. If you have one, you may want to pay attention to this resource &#8211; especially if you have your own web site. Chances are, you&#8217;d like to get feedback from the people who visit your site. However, that can be quite difficult at times. The same team who created our new <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com">contest page</a> created this new application that can help you get feedback for your site via Twitter!</p><p>Paste the code for the widget into your website. As people visit, they can leave feedback through the widget that is automatically tweet&#8217;d out on their own Twitter accounts. Then, those responses can be ranked. Let&#8217;s say someone visits your site, and they think it needs to be more &#8216;Green&#8217;. Let&#8217;s say five other people think that, as well. They will then tweet out their agreements, which will allow you to see what it is people do and don&#8217;t agree on about your site.</p><p><a
href="http://twifeedback.com/">TwiFeedback</a> is simple to use. TwiFeedback is the world&#8217;s first community feedback tool that leverages the power of Twitter. A live stream of user feedback will display in your widget for community review &#038; voting.</p><p>I like this because when people are talking about you on Twitter, that&#8217;s a good thing. You want that! It&#8217;s gets your name and web site out there. Getting yourself out there is the first step towards realizing your personal and/or business goals.</p><p><ul><li
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href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>It seems that everyone has a Twitter account these days. If you have one, you may want to pay attention to this resource &#8211; especially if you have your own web site. Chances are, you&#8217;d like to get feedback from the people who visit your site. However, that can be quite difficult at times. The same team who created our new <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com">contest page</a> created this new application that can help you get feedback for your site via Twitter!</p><p>Paste the code for the widget into your website. As people visit, they can leave feedback through the widget that is automatically tweet&#8217;d out on their own Twitter accounts. Then, those responses can be ranked. Let&#8217;s say someone visits your site, and they think it needs to be more &#8216;Green&#8217;. Let&#8217;s say five other people think that, as well. They will then tweet out their agreements, which will allow you to see what it is people do and don&#8217;t agree on about your site.</p><p><a
href="http://twifeedback.com/">TwiFeedback</a> is simple to use. TwiFeedback is the world&#8217;s first community feedback tool that leverages the power of Twitter. A live stream of user feedback will display in your widget for community review &#038; voting.</p><p>I like this because when people are talking about you on Twitter, that&#8217;s a good thing. You want that! It&#8217;s gets your name and web site out there. Getting yourself out there is the first step towards realizing your personal and/or business goals.</p><p><ul><li
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url="http://blip.tv/file/get/L0ckergn0me-HowToGetFeedbackForYourWebSiteViaTwitter885.mp4" length="28003100" type="video/mp4" /> </item> <item><title>What&#8217;s the Funniest Thing You&#8217;ve Ever Read on Twitter?</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/whats-the-funniest-thing-youve-ever-read-on-twitter/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/whats-the-funniest-thing-youve-ever-read-on-twitter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter-humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter-wit]]></category><guid
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href="http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blogs/will-your-twitter-followers">Word on the street</a> is that Best Buy is now requiring applicants to not only be on Twitter &#8211; but to have at least 250 followers, as well. When I read this, my mouth hit the floor. In effect, the company thinks that hiring people with a large Twitter following will garner more business for them. How ludicrous is this? It&#8217;s not up to an employee to send out tweets and bring in business to a company like Best Buy. For one thing, what if a person chooses not to have that many followers? Not everyone is on Twitter to see if they can win the race for having the most followers. Some people actually use it only to follow interesting people and entities themselves, not caring whether others follow them back. Some of those same people never even update their own timeline. They choose, instead, to simply use Twitter to read the latest news, and keep up with what&#8217;s hot in the marketplace.</p><p>I cannot begin to understand why a company would &#8211; or can even be allowed to &#8211; require something like this. If a person&#8217;s job were going to be something along the lines of &#8220;Social Media Director&#8221;, I might be able to see the need for the applicant to already have some sort of following, establishing them as &#8220;social media savvy&#8221;. Beyond that &#8211; I&#8217;m just lost.</p><p>What are your thoughts? Is this going to become an eerie new trend in the job hunting process? Do you feel that this is just totally off the wall? Let&#8217;s hear your thoughts!</p><ul><li><a
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isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=13682</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/to-twitter-or-to-fritter-that-is-the-question/">To Twitter or to Fritter &#8211; That is the Question</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>During my travels around our community today, I came across an <a
href="http://www.lockergnome.com/jfk/2009/07/06/twittering-or-frittering/">interesting post on Lockergnome</a>. The author discusses how he signed up for Twitter in order to attempt to figure out the hype. At one point, he states that:</p><blockquote><p> By composing short, 140-character messages, you can share with the world that you are standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, eating a tuna sandwich, or watching your dog chase its tail. If compulsively posting such digital drivel is not enough of an incentive to get out of bed in the morning—which is, of course, another event you’ll want to share with others &#8211; you can also follow the mundane activities of other peoples’ uneventful lives &#8211; including neuron-numbing celebritwits. At no time in the history of interpersonal communication has the phrase “Get a life” been more appropriate.</p></blockquote><p>After a two-month immersion on Twitter, he still doesn&#8217;t quite &#8220;get it&#8221;, according to his closing paragraph. He wants to understand why <em>&#8220;anybody would feel compelled to share the excruciatingly tedious minutia of their lives&#8230; (and) why anybody would want to read it&#8221;</em>. This is our chance to show Mr. Modem what it is that he is missing.</p><p>Sure, there are plenty of mind-numbing tweets posted every nth of a second, all day, every day. However, there are also an equal number of informative and important things spread across Twitter, as well. Each day, Twitter is becoming more of a news outlet than the actual newspapers and stations. Word about a tragedy, accident, death or even a missing child will spread all across Twitter (and become a trending topic) much quicker than the same stories could possibly be posted to a place such as CNN or MSNBC.</p><p>Twitter is also used in very unconventional ways to spread a message, and raise awareness for a good cause. During last year&#8217;s Gnomedex conference, the attendees used their reach on Twitter to <a
href="http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/08/how-long-does-i.html">raise over $3700.00</a> to help send a young Cambodian woman to college. Right now, we have a good friend of our community, <a
href="http://www.drewolanoff.com">Drew</a>, who is using Twitter to <a
href="http://www.blamedrewscancer.com">blame his cancer for things</a>, thus raising awareness and money for the Livestrong Foundation.</p><p>In my eyes, Twitter is a mixed bag. It is fun, definitely. You can post short, silly little messages on a whim if you choose. Five seconds later, you can turn around and post about a life-changing event &#8211; one that may impact many thousands of people. It&#8217;s not what Twitter &#8220;is&#8221; or &#8220;is not&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s what you choose to do with it that makes the difference.</p><p>My challenge to all of you is this: if you are on Twitter (or have been in the past) &#8211; how do you answer Mr. Modem&#8217;s question? Leave a follow-up comment here, and let us know if you feel that you are Twittering &#8211; or Frittering &#8211; your time away.</p><p>Of course, while you&#8217;re pondering the answer to this question, be sure to check out what others around you have been up to today.</p><ul><li><a
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href="http://geeks.pirillo.com/forum/topics/5-reasons-why-x-reasons-why-y">Five reasons why &#8220;X is better than Y&#8221; lists are just plain dumb.</a></li><li><a
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/to-twitter-or-to-fritter-that-is-the-question/">To Twitter or to Fritter &#8211; That is the Question</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>During my travels around our community today, I came across an <a
href="http://www.lockergnome.com/jfk/2009/07/06/twittering-or-frittering/">interesting post on Lockergnome</a>. The author discusses how he signed up for Twitter in order to attempt to figure out the hype. At one point, he states that:</p><blockquote><p> By composing short, 140-character messages, you can share with the world that you are standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, eating a tuna sandwich, or watching your dog chase its tail. If compulsively posting such digital drivel is not enough of an incentive to get out of bed in the morning—which is, of course, another event you’ll want to share with others &#8211; you can also follow the mundane activities of other peoples’ uneventful lives &#8211; including neuron-numbing celebritwits. At no time in the history of interpersonal communication has the phrase “Get a life” been more appropriate.</p></blockquote><p>After a two-month immersion on Twitter, he still doesn&#8217;t quite &#8220;get it&#8221;, according to his closing paragraph. He wants to understand why <em>&#8220;anybody would feel compelled to share the excruciatingly tedious minutia of their lives&#8230; (and) why anybody would want to read it&#8221;</em>. This is our chance to show Mr. Modem what it is that he is missing.</p><p>Sure, there are plenty of mind-numbing tweets posted every nth of a second, all day, every day. However, there are also an equal number of informative and important things spread across Twitter, as well. Each day, Twitter is becoming more of a news outlet than the actual newspapers and stations. Word about a tragedy, accident, death or even a missing child will spread all across Twitter (and become a trending topic) much quicker than the same stories could possibly be posted to a place such as CNN or MSNBC.</p><p>Twitter is also used in very unconventional ways to spread a message, and raise awareness for a good cause. During last year&#8217;s Gnomedex conference, the attendees used their reach on Twitter to <a
href="http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/08/how-long-does-i.html">raise over $3700.00</a> to help send a young Cambodian woman to college. Right now, we have a good friend of our community, <a
href="http://www.drewolanoff.com">Drew</a>, who is using Twitter to <a
href="http://www.blamedrewscancer.com">blame his cancer for things</a>, thus raising awareness and money for the Livestrong Foundation.</p><p>In my eyes, Twitter is a mixed bag. It is fun, definitely. You can post short, silly little messages on a whim if you choose. Five seconds later, you can turn around and post about a life-changing event &#8211; one that may impact many thousands of people. It&#8217;s not what Twitter &#8220;is&#8221; or &#8220;is not&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s what you choose to do with it that makes the difference.</p><p>My challenge to all of you is this: if you are on Twitter (or have been in the past) &#8211; how do you answer Mr. Modem&#8217;s question? Leave a follow-up comment here, and let us know if you feel that you are Twittering &#8211; or Frittering &#8211; your time away.</p><p>Of course, while you&#8217;re pondering the answer to this question, be sure to check out what others around you have been up to today.</p><ul><li><a
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isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=13660</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/throwboy-pillows-win-one-today/">Throwboy Pillows &#8211; Win One Today!</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Each week, we do a contest on our new(ish) <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com">Contests</a> page. We&#8217;ve sadly put them on the back burner recently, due to working so hard on other projects. The good news for you all is that we&#8217;re reviving the contests, and having a great time with them! If you have ideas for future Twitter contests, or are a company interested in donating prizes, drop me a line!</p><p>This week, you have a chance to win one of two <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/throwboy-unboxing/">Throwboy pillows</a>. Two winners will be chosen at random, and each will be able to choose which of these awesome little pillows they will have sent to them! <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com/1165-What-Would-You-Do-With-a-Throwboy-.html#cheddrframe">The contest itself</a> is simple to enter:</p><ul><li>You must be following me on Twitter <strong>@chrispirillo</strong></li><li>You have to Tweet the following: @chrispirillo #throwboy [Your Entry for What You Would Do]</li></ul><p>That&#8217;s it! Honest! Seriously! Now, to be clear&#8230; make sure you don&#8217;t actually put the words [Your Entry for What You Would Do]. You need to exchange that, and tell me what it is you would do with/for a Throwboy! Be creative &#8211; and make it fun! Please keep all entries PG, though. There are a lot of younger people out there!</p><p>Even bigger news is that the folks at Throwboy have agreed to run this very same contest every other month! So if you don&#8217;t win this time, hang in there until September&#8217;s contest!</p><p>Good luck to everyone. :)<ul
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/throwboy-pillows-win-one-today/">Throwboy Pillows &#8211; Win One Today!</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Each week, we do a contest on our new(ish) <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com">Contests</a> page. We&#8217;ve sadly put them on the back burner recently, due to working so hard on other projects. The good news for you all is that we&#8217;re reviving the contests, and having a great time with them! If you have ideas for future Twitter contests, or are a company interested in donating prizes, drop me a line!</p><p>This week, you have a chance to win one of two <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/throwboy-unboxing/">Throwboy pillows</a>. Two winners will be chosen at random, and each will be able to choose which of these awesome little pillows they will have sent to them! <a
href="http://contests.pirillo.com/1165-What-Would-You-Do-With-a-Throwboy-.html#cheddrframe">The contest itself</a> is simple to enter:</p><ul><li>You must be following me on Twitter <strong>@chrispirillo</strong></li><li>You have to Tweet the following: @chrispirillo #throwboy [Your Entry for What You Would Do]</li></ul><p>That&#8217;s it! Honest! Seriously! Now, to be clear&#8230; make sure you don&#8217;t actually put the words [Your Entry for What You Would Do]. You need to exchange that, and tell me what it is you would do with/for a Throwboy! Be creative &#8211; and make it fun! Please keep all entries PG, though. There are a lot of younger people out there!</p><p>Even bigger news is that the folks at Throwboy have agreed to run this very same contest every other month! So if you don&#8217;t win this time, hang in there until September&#8217;s contest!</p><p>Good luck to everyone. :)<ul
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-play-chess-on-twitter/" title="How to Play Chess on Twitter">How to Play Chess on Twitter</a></li></ul> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://chris.pirillo.com/throwboy-pillows-win-one-today/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How to Play Chess on Twitter</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-play-chess-on-twitter/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-play-chess-on-twitter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:25:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chesstweets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter-chess]]></category><guid
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href="http://www.chesstweets.com">ChessTweets</a> is the newest type of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send your chess moves remotely, allowing you to play against someone who is located a million miles away! You can use any of the Twitter clients to play, such as TweetDeck and Twhirl.</p><p>The ChessTweets Experiment wants to try to expand on the ideas intended by <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_The_World">Kasparov</a> back in 1999. ChessTweets has created the world&#8217;s first automated and objective machine. Can something like this learn to compete with the best players in the world? The Experiment thinks so, and is out to prove it.</p><p>ChessTweets asks the community to give their input on moves. They will then examine each and every person&#8217;s relative skill, and apply a formulated weight to every suggested move. This way, everyone plays an equal and important role in the game! A novice&#8217;s opinion will be just as vital as that of someone of expert level.</p><p>This is actually an excellent &#8211; and fun &#8211; idea. It&#8217;s going to be very interesting over coming months to watch this project grow, and to see what level the &#8220;mind&#8221; can reach.</p><p><ul><li
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href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a> is now on the iPhone.  That&#8217;s right &#8211; the reversed-palate, desktop-hogging application has now gone mobile, releasing its first iPhone version today.  The TweetDeck community fervently downloaded it and <a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265879-2.html">spread the exciting news</a> that they have been waiting for since the idea was mentioned last summer.  Some of you might have tried the desktop app in the past and moved on for whatever reason.  You might want to take a second look and see what both the desktop and the iPhone applications now have to offer.</p><p>As you may know, TweetDeck is known for its multiple-column layout.  Previously, the desktop application would only allow 10 columns; the desktop version released today has no limit.</p><p>Wait, it gets better: you can retain your groups through the new account sync. \ This is, by far,  the best feature of the new TweetDeck. Your tweets, settings, and groups are saved &#8211; no matter where you are using the application &#8211; on your phone, on your desktop at work, or your computer at home.</p><p>The second best feature of Tweetdeck is multiple accounts.  Since nearly the beginning, users have pleaded for the ability to use the robust application with multiple Twitter accounts (common for marketers, bloggers, and other full-time tweeters).  Even though <a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5292867/tweetdeck-now-available-on-the-iphone">the iPhone app</a> doesn&#8217;t include EVERY feature of the desktop application, you have the ability to set up and use multiple accounts just like the desktop.  The best part about it is that if you set up your second Twitter account on your iPhone, you&#8217;ll sync your settings and be able to use it on your desktop, too.</p><ul><li>When you are in the initial setup, you may crash if you try to create or sign in to your TweetDeck account.  Click on &#8220;Skip This&#8221; as you can fix it later once you are running.  All you need to do is go into Settings and set it up.  This will probably be fixed with their first update &#8211; it&#8217;s a pretty big bug.<li>While the desktop application can have multiple columns, the iPhone app gets sluggish with too many.  I encountered a crash loop when trying to use 21 columns.  My recommendation is that you keep your phone columns at 10 or less.  If you use more, you may wish to purge old or read tweets to prevent crashing.<li>The desktop application has Facebook status integrated, but the iPhone app doesn&#8217;t. This is a bit of a downer; hopefully, they will consider adding this for their users in the next update.</ul><p>All in all, the TweetDeck app &#8211; or should we call it a &#8220;service&#8221; now, with the ability to create TweetDeck sync accounts &#8211; is evolving well. It&#8217;s far from the clunky original version &#8211; and should get better as Adobe&#8217;s AIR platform matures. You can view a full list of features for both public beta applications and download them for free from the <a
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url="http://blip.tv/file/get/L0ckergn0me-HowToFindPopularLinksOnTwitter238.mp4" length="23137677" type="video/mp4" /> </item> <item><title>How to Visualize Twitter Tweets</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-visualize-twitter-tweets/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-visualize-twitter-tweets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:42:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[visibletweets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[visualize]]></category><guid
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-visualize-twitter-tweets/">How to Visualize Twitter Tweets</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p><object
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/> <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p> Yes, that really was a tweet you saw on my screen. Each of the tweets had one thing in common &#8211; my last name. I had fun watching them assemble themselves on my screen.</p><p>Using <a
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/> <a
href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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url="http://blip.tv/file/get/L0ckergn0me-HowToShareFilesOnTwitter191.mp4" length="16384613" type="video/mp4" /> </item> <item><title>How to Create a Twitter Background Image</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-create-a-twitter-background-image/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-create-a-twitter-background-image/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:27:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[background]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter-background]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wallpaper]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=12970</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
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/> <a
href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>I have a new Twitter background. It&#8217;s awesome, but I can&#8217;t take credit for it. I&#8217;m not the one who made it. Not everyone out there is a great graphic designer, or would know how to create their own background. How do you create a custom Twitter background then?</p><p>Never fear! <a
href="http://freetwitterdesigner.com/">Free Twitter Designer</a> is here! Free Twitter Designer does exactly what the name implies &#8211; it allows you to easily create cool custom Twitter backgrounds &#8211; for free!</p><p>To create your background, choose a blank slate or one of the premade templates. You can then add shapes, text or images from your computer. It has the Twitter overlay there, so you can play with colors and see how everything will look right on your Twitter page. You can change things, such as your blend mode and style.</p><p>Nothing is saved on the site itself, so what you create is 100% yours. Once you close the browser window, your work is gone. So, keep that window open until you upload what you&#8217;ve done onto your Twitter account.</p><p>Make sure you change your page colors on Twitter itself. Changing them on Free Twitter Designer just lets you see how the colors would look with your background. You&#8217;ll still need to change them yourself once you log in to Twitter.</p><p>Once your background is created, adding it to your Twitter profile is simple. Log in to your Twitter account and click Settings, then click Design, then Select Change Background Image. Now just upload your image.</p><p><ul><li
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