Twitter: I Twink I Twove You

Today Chris Winfield published a great article on SearchEngineLand about Twitter. I was amazed to see that he was able to actually use Twitter to write an article about Twitter.

“Basically the best way to show the true power of something is to let it demonstrate it for you. That’s what I wanted to do with Twitter.” - Chris Winfield

I am always open to trying out new social communities and tools. Even though I tend to spend more time using the ones that help me business wise, I will give them all a try at least once.

Facebook was cool, but I never logged, in unless I got an email saying someone wanted to add me as a friend. MySpace was something that looked interesting, but got boring about the time I finished putting in a cool css layout.

As for real time social communities and tools, I had already jumped on Pownce, because I knew social media users had accounts. Pownce seemed more likely to have a return on my time spent using it. Twitter, on the other hand, showed no potential value to me.
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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media, Tips, Twitter | 3 Comments 

TwitterFeed & RSS2Twitter Die on the Same Day?

Edit: Twitterfeed came back online today so must have been just a coincidence.

I have been a pretty solid user of Twitterfeed since it was released, and I have seen many people using RSS2Twitter. Both are services that allow you to put in an RSS feed url and they will publish updates from the feed to your Twitter account.

Recently Twitter made some updates to their site, and today both Twitterfeed and RSS2Twitter are both down and unavailable.

So it has to be asked. Did Twitter make more than just site changes? Did they have a hand in taking out the two top “RSS to Twitter” services on the web? Or is it just purely some random coincidence?

I emailed and asked Twitter for comment, but received no response. If anyone has any additional information or knows of any additional services, related to Twittering with an RSS, that have gone down or broken recently?

More importantly, does anyone know of a service that is still up and working?

February 6, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media, Twitter | 1 Comment