Nine years ago this evening I sent my first Tweet. I believe this was after I joined Facebook, but it’s all a blur. For years I was energized by the small pipe platform of Twitter. I saw it as a way to connect with people all over the globe. A platform to learn, gain knowledge […]
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Six Years on Twitter. How Many More?
February 22, 2014 
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I was contemplating whether or not to blog about why I’m on Twitter and how I use it. My first Tweet was February 23, 2008. For some unremebered reason I put it on my iCalendar that day with a perpetual repeat. The internal food fight of whether I should give it life here went on in […]
Continue readingFive Years on Twitter, or How I Spent 18.1 Days of my Life
April 5, 2013 3 Comments
Updated April 5, 2013. Some content previously published. I’ve been using Twitter for five years. It’s amazing to see how much Twitter has changed over that time. Actually it’s only over the last 24 months or so that they have made significant leaps, with the first years serving as setting the foundation. Twitter is about […]
Continue readingThree Years on Twitter, or How I Spent 10.2 Days of my Life in the Stream
February 23, 2011 1 Comment
Today, February 23, 2011 marks the third anniversary of my first Tweet. Honestly, I don’t remember what I Tweeted. It would be great to say it was something memorable like, “Watson (the IBM Watson), come here I need you.” But alas it probably wasn’t that profound. During those three years I have Tweeted 7,665 times. […]
Continue readingThink + Action = Results
January 17, 2011 0 Comments
Today we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a man who obviously thought long and hard about important things and how to change them so more people could have equal opportunity to pursue their dreams. Dr. King knew his actions were putting him in danger, but he calculated that risk and determined pursuit of […]
Continue readingThere is No Social Media Playbook
January 6, 2011 1 Comment
As the calendar has turned to 2011, we have been inundated with an endless barrage of Social Media predictions compiled by experts and dabblers alike. Some of what I have read are excellent and well informed perspectives backed by data and research, while others appear to be, well, nil-informed. As Yogi Berra once said, “Prediction […]
Continue readingIs Yahoo Stalking Twitter?
September 1, 2009 1 Comment
Many of us have been wondering if, or really when, someone would try to compete head to head with Twitter. We all know of Twitter’s explosive growth and we love it and hate it, but use it. To date there has yet to be a worthy competitor. Perhaps that’s changing. The blog world has been […]
Continue readingIs Twitter Losing its Value Exchange Power for the Individual?
April 24, 2009 0 Comments
It’s only 3 years old, but Twitter seems to be transforming faster than it’s adding users. Two years under the radar, one year in steady growth; the fourth year (over 14 million members) is shaping up to possibly be “thee” year it will flirt with the mainstream. And that’s when I will have to completely […]
Continue readingTweetie is now Twitter on my iPhone
January 17, 2009 2 Comments
I’ve tried several Twitter iPhone applications, Twitterific, Twitfire, Twittelator and most recently Tweetie. Here’s my take. Twitteriffic has a richly designed screen with a nice collection of settings that mirror the iPhone interface. It’s pretty fast, but unless you upgrade you get ads. Twitfire is essentially a quick way to get your Tweet out there. […]
Continue readingMumbai Tragedy will be Game-Changer for Social Media
November 27, 2008 0 Comments
I was up very late last night tracking the terrorist attacks in India on Twitter using TweetDeck and Tweet Grid. My mind flashed back to September 11th and the parallel was immediately made by dozens of people and news agencies. My wife was upstairs watching the events unfold as Breaking News on CNN. I was […]
Continue readingWhy I’m on Twitter and How I Use It
November 19, 2008 4 Comments
When I welcome my latest Twitter followers I link them (you?) to this post. If you have arrived here from that Tweet, thank you for following me. If you simply found your way to my blog, and you’re on Twitter, please feel free to follow me at twitter.com/stevefurman. If you’re not on Twitter I’m NOT […]
Continue readingAl Gore on Twitter – How About Something More
November 12, 2008 0 Comments
This is Al Gore’s Twitter Stream. Not a sample of his stream, the entire stream. 17,677 followers, following 1, with only 5 updates. If you Tweet and are trying to decide if you should follow someone you typically look at their follower/following ratio. I like to see those two numbers pretty close, which signals engagement […]
Continue readingTwitter: Marketing Platform or Online Pen Pal Service?
November 9, 2008 2 Comments
I started using Twitter on August 7th of this year. Like so many of us time is a premium and even though I am quick to try something, I will drop it like first period French if I don’t see any value for me or a path to providing value back to a community. Twitter […]
Continue readingFall Semester is in Session – What’s Your Twitter Grade?
September 15, 2008 1 Comment
If you Twitter and you’re serious about it you will want to know your grade. Mine is 25 out of a possible 100, so I’ve got some work to do. The Twitter king right now is Barack Obama. I rank way down on the list, but aspire to move up. My grade this morning was […]
Continue readingTwitter Friends Network Browser – For Those That Tweet
August 14, 2008 0 Comments
Neuro Productions, the company that created this application seems to be one person, Hris Timmerman. He lives in Antwerp (Belgium) and is a self-proclaimed Adobe flash addict, and apparently a good one. He created the Twitter network browser application. It allows you to enter a Twitter name and see their network blossom in your browser […]
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