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Twitter as news reader?

Smoking Apple's Milind Alvares on using Twitter for news feed instead of RSS:

"with the new ‘lists’ feature in Twitter (and especially so when major clients support it), you can pretty much have an RSS client right inside your twitter client."

Goobi's Soggy Tumblr : About RSS, Twitter RSS, and 'the personal touch'

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Seinfeld. On Twitter

The cast of Seinfeld on Twitter. - By Frank Ferri - Slate Magazine

This is brilliant. As a commenter put it, a show about nothing on a medium about nothing. Characterization is flawless.

(via @dregar)

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He wrote a book on using a BlackBerry

Reblogged very loudly… :D

Tweet

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TOO SHORT!

Sent from my iPhone

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The World According to Twitter by David @Pogue - MINE!

Back in June I posted this entry. Today the book is in my hands, delivered from New York on September 18.
Thanks David, again. :D

   
Click here to download:
The_World_According_to_Twitter.zip (175 KB)

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Twitter book for beginners

A good friend of mine, @Dirgayuza Setiawan recently launched his Twitter book for beginners.

If you know anyone who's just getting into Twitter, it might be a good idea to get them this book even though most of the information is available from Twitter's own help pages.

The good thing about printed books is that you can read them when there's no Internet connection. Mashable has a really good free online guide for Twitter but it's not that useful offline. The PDF version is only readable on the latest version of Adobe Reader which I'm not a fan of.

The book is in Indonesian which helps locals understand Twitter better if they're not that fluent in English. They also won't need to dig through the help pages at http://twitter.com/help. I'm sure even many seasoned veterans haven't bothered to look through that section of the site.

It's a good guide for beginners without getting into more complicated situations.

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Twitter Meme: Failed New Peter Pan Names

So the Indonesian band formerly named Peter Pan now calls themselves Feather Band. Without missing a beat, Indonesians on Twitter caught on and came up with #failednewpeterpannames.

Here are some early ones.
Bitter Fans, Butter Brand, Baking Pan, Maxi Pants, Feather Pants, Father’s Ban, Father’s Pants, Meter Ran, Mother Brand, Father Tan, Banter Can, Foster Friend, Foster Can, Vader Pants, Shower Man, Mowing Lawn, Pinter Kan, Bulu Band, Feeder Band, Feter Fan, Writer Ran.

And here are some of the funny ones as retweeted by @tebakangaring:

Luna Pants, Peed Her Pants, "Beat Her, Man," Kangen Band, Twitter Fan, Bear Brand, Panci Peter, Feed Her Pants, Freeze Her Pants, Glitter Pants, Laler Gan, Manis Manja Group, Yes We Can, Pinter Pan, Feeder Trans, Feeder Band, Counter Pain, Peder Man, Wet My Pants, Like a Pre Band, Petir Band, Alay Band, Pulpen, Wendy

Click on this link or the hash tag above to keep up with the latest

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How to trend a topic on Twitter

Buzzgain » How many tweets does it take to be a trending topic on Twitter?

Apparently at any given time, to ensure a trending topic on Twitter you would need about 2000 tweets at once. More if you want it to be on top and maintain that position for a lengthy period.

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Twitter going mainstream

Was just discussing about Twitter going mainstream the last couple of days and how Sony Ericsson is now promoting phones with Facebook as a feature (I'll take a photo of the ad some other time). @feilisa said they'll start doing it with twitter soon, just wait.

Well, today I saw a high circulation tabloid about the cellphone market with this headline:

Use Facebook and Twitter together

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MetroTV Special Dialog on #IndonesiaUnite

What

Special Dialog on MetroTV. 

 

I've been asked to gather a list of people from Twitter who would like to be in the audience at their studio. The show will feature discussions about the bombing at Kuningan last Friday morning and the IndonesiaUnite movement that began on Twitter which has practically taken over Twitter for the past five days, as a response to the incident.

 

It will also have performances by Slank, Efek Rumah Kaca, Pandji Pragiwaksono, Oppie Andaresta, and Jose Rizal Manua.

 

IndonesiaUnite is a movement that aims to show the world that Indonesians are not afraid of terrorists and instead of hiding, will drive to protect, preserve, and advance our way of life. It is also being used to tell the world that there is more to Indonesia than they may know.

 

It is not only a movement on the internet, it is being pushed offline also to show the rest of the country that there are people who care about driving the nation forward, that there are ways to make this country a better place, and that a nation is nothing without its people.

 

Where

MetroTV Studios, Kedoya

 

When

Live show from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. 

Must be at MetroTV by 5:30 pm. 

 

How

Meet 4:00pm at Plaza Senayan, MetroTV bus will pick us up and take us back to Plaza Senayan unless you want to make your own way.

 

Please confirm your attendance by leaving a comment on this blog entry. I will not admit further submissions unless there are confirmed cancellations.

 

Who

@AndyZain, AndreasSurya, @ariefr, @astrid_amalia, @absolutraia @aulia, @boruniraja, @brettmcguire, @desta_star, @kuncoro, @mastrosiani, @patvandiest, @rnhpenna +3, @teguh_koopa, @vikingkarwur, @vmahmud, @waraney, @yoshi_f, @irsadestiwi, @gusgoose, @qronoz +2,  Inggita, @leonisecret, @adigunacakra, @andytanamas.

 

 

UPDATE

We'll be waiting around the atrium at the ground floor. Some of us will go straight to MetroTV. 

I don't think we can add any more people unless I forgot some of you.

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