the mergy notes

With all the recent chaos over at the birdhouse, it might make sense to use TweetBackup to archive your past tweets while you still can. I did.

http://tweetbackup.com/

I’m not a fan of the advertising-based model for social media services. To use the web and social media effectively, you have to do what you can to widdle-down the feeds and noise so you can obtain and provide value. Advertising models used to support these sites and services really only hinder and distort these [...]

In late December of 2009, I decided to finally check-out Twitter. I created an account and started to play with it. Reflecting now after a couple of years spending a decent amount of time on the platform, here are some things I have learned in the process. Unfortunately, as with most things in the world, [...]

I have bought just about every Twitter client for iOS and have found them all pretty much as waste. They have features that are hit or miss and they are all probably fine for the basic user if you want to just stay within the bounds of what Twitter and the known services want to [...]