Tag Archive for 'twitter'

Seth’s bandwidth vs synchronicity graph: it’s a start

Published on August 5, 2009 in Web2.0, bandwidth and technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Seth Godin came up with a visualisation of ‘means of communication’: bandwidth vs sync(chronicity). He took a number of ‘old’ (postal mail, radio) and ‘new’ (blogs, Youtube and -of course- Twitter) technologies and ranked them on a 2D graph according to ‘quality’ (density or bandwidth) and ’sync’ (speed of reaction).

Although it is an interesting way of visualizing things, and I consider Seth a very bright and creative guy, I am bothered by the fact that the graph is neither clear, correct nor complete.

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Twitter spammers: Clickbank/Keynetics affiliates

Published on July 14, 2008 in advertising and spam. 7 Comments Tags: , .

I’ve been experimenting with Twitter a couple of times, and one of the results, the FM Brussel Live playlist twitter bot, seems to be rather popular. I get a couple of subscriptions per day. But recently they’re almost all of the form [name of girl][number of 2 - 4 digits]. This is what they look like:

Twitter followers: suspicious lot

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FM Brussel playlist live on Twitter

Published on April 16, 2008 in Brussel and Web2.0. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Via Pietel I heard of a Twitter account that publishes the playlist of StuBru in real-time. Interesting, but I listen to FM Brussel. How hard would it be to make the same thing for FM Brussel? Not that hard, it appears. After some twiddling with curl, twitter API and other PHP, here is the Twitter account for the playlist of FM Brussel.

http://twitter.com/fmbrussel