I removed TuiteSweet because my blog does not need it anyway, but I think it’s a cool app. Hopefully you guys can work something out.

Not sure why I’m surprised to find out the the url-shortening business is serious biz lolz

It is written improperly. It attempts to use the tr.im bookmarklet to shorten the URL (indeed the author didn’t even have the courtesy to use the tr.im API). API like traffic for tr.im must use the API, that is what it is there for. Additionally it wouldn’t work even if he had written it improperly because he doesn’t understand how some URL shorteners such as tr.im work.

The author has refused to fix his wordpress plugin and remove tr.im. It has generated an enormous amount of traffic to a free service that we pay for out of our pocket. As a result tr.im is banning any traffic coming from a blog using this plugin. This will slow down your pageloads for several seconds before it times out on its connection to tr.im.

you def touched on one major aspect that gives HUGE value to twitter, that is, coverage during live events. But in practice, live updates dont have to be major to be useful. Could also be a traffic report, a deal of the day, bad weather across town, etc… that LIVE aspect is riveting, fast-paced and (who knew) incredibly useful!

Another valuable facet of twitter is the exchange of professional information and the things you can learn, simply by following people who have similar interests or are leaders in your field. For someone interested in technology, this is probably true times a billion, but other fields are def very active, too.

Wont deny there is a lot of noise, fukkery, funny stuff, etc, which creates what the NY Times called “ambient awareness” which is what you have when you know the minutia of your friends’ lives (i.e. all the trivial but real stuff that makes up the vast majority of the content) without rly connecting directly

Some celebrities and artists also Twitter and interact with fans. Erykah Badu and Jay Electronica just twittered the birth of their baby lol, and both do interact with fans which makes me, as a fan, just super stoked. Levar Burton is very twitter famous, too, funny guy. Anyway, that’s probably not the kind of value you meant, but, it’s fun *shrug*

dag, see, you almost made me write a whole new post here! Hope we can talk some more soon, very inspiring, thx!

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