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Twitters of the Day: Starbucks, Han Solo, and Netscape

Written by Eric Berlin
Published March 22, 2007

Lots of great stuff coming out of Twitter (the wunderkind short, simple, and snappy tool that lets you post 140-character maximum rants, pontifications, links, and random musings about personal peccadilloes to groups of "followers"), I may have to make Twitters of the Day a regular feature.

Jason Calacanis: correcting WSJ errors at my blog. uhhhh.... dont even work there anymore and i'm fighting the good fight. i guess i need to let it go huh?

Jason is referring to his spirited defense against a Wall Street Journal piece that claims that Netscape traffic is way down since the switch over to the "new" social news-driven platform (which I have declared, with its problems and all, is the future of news). Like many arguments, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle on this one. That said, Netscape is a perfect choice to continue to lead out a broad-based general audience social news experiment. I just wish that their editors were a little less trigger happy on editing/yanking submissions and would more closely cooperate with submitters and publishers, without whom the site would have no content.

Bloggers Blog: Will newspapers/magazines make all the journalists Twitter like they made them blog?

There are a bunch of great and interesting and probing questions that sweep Twitter everyday. I think this one is a little bit tongue-and-cheek but I do think it likely that some journalists will get on board with Twitter before too long. We may see reporters in battle zones giving live on-the-ground snippets, anchors at the desk musing about life on the news set during commercial breaks, and solicitations for questions prior to interviews. Pretty cool stuff in other words, and it all lies ahead.

Bloggers Blog: Poor Han Solo. Darth Vader is crushing him in followers 1250 to 56

Bloggers Blog delivered the goods today! There are a bunch of fake Twitter profiles, which I see as a sign of the site's health and popularity. I haven't friended any of them yet, so if any of them are particularly funny, please let me know.

Robert Scoble: I told Dave to pop up some Starbucks ads on TwitterVision just to freak everyone out. http://twittermap.com/twittervision — I'm addicted.

Ah, that rascally Scobleizer. TwitterVision is a site to behold, a really easy and mesmerizing way to see how this simple little product is providing yet another short cut to instant and immersive (and even substantive, sometimes!) conversation between friends and followers and lurkers around the globe.

Drop me a line at my Twitter page. You'll be hooked before long!

EBb-dayEric Berlin is the Executive Producer of Blogcritics.org and publisher of Online Media Cultist. He's also prone to referring to himself in the third person in author bios in an attempt to make it look like someone Less Important wrote it for him. Contact: dumpsterbust@gmail.com
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Twitters of the Day: Starbucks, Han Solo, and Netscape
Published: March 22, 2007
Type: News
Section: Sci/Tech
Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Blogging, Sci/Tech: Internet
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#1 — March 23, 2007 @ 00:03AM — Keith Fletcher [URL]

Have you seen www.celebritytwitter.com. Someone has registerd all of the famous stars and follows them using twitter.

#2 — March 23, 2007 @ 00:54AM — Eric Berlin [URL]

Yes I have Keith, thanks. Lots of cool things coming out of the twitterverse!

#3 — March 25, 2007 @ 16:16PM — Michael Karesh [URL]

I've been putting so many hours into developing my site that I've been unaware of Twitter and the new Netscape. Thanks for the heads-up.

Does this mean that workaholics like myself can now have "friends?"

#4 — March 25, 2007 @ 16:26PM — Eric Berlin [URL]

Hope you enjoy, Michael. And I think twitter is a good way for workaholics to "relax"!

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