Sore Eyes » twitter http://soreeyes.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:58:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Twittering http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 22:36:40 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/ The twitterverse according to jwz.

]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/feed/ 0 A firestorm in 140 characters http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:39:56 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/ Meg Pickard’s post about AmazonFAIL is far and away the sanest, most balanced account I’ve read of the whole sorry affair.

There’s a great deal to be learned from this fiasco; not just for Amazon, but also by users1 of social media.

  1. Where ‘users’ means both those posting messages and those reading and reacting to them.
]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/feed/ 0 The Grauniad, 140 characters at a time http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:27:05 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/ Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink:

[Celebrated Guardian editor] CP Scott would have warmly endorsed this – his well-known observation ‘Comment is free but facts are sacred’ is only 36 characters long, a spokesman said in a tweet that was itself only 135 characters long.

Almost as good an April Fool as the notion that Alan Shearer is Newcastle United’s new manager.1

[Via Qwghlm]

  1. What?!?
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