Blackbird Pie: Embed your Tweets in HTML (the nice way)

on May 8th, 2010

No more screenshots and embedding them as images! Twitter has launched Blackbird Pie, a service to create a nice looking embedable tweet code in HTML, nicely making use of your awesome Twitter background. You can try it out here: http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/

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Who rules the social media

on October 8th, 2009

The awesome guys at InformationisBeautiful have come up with a an infographic that requires sharing. The brain behind these awesome visualisations is David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer with a penchant for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words.

12 Adorable Twitter Cartoons

on October 2nd, 2009

These absolutely adorable Twittertoons are the creation of Tony Gigov of Twitter Love fame.

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: the Twitter version

on September 25th, 2009

Sept. 29 @Bingley joins Twitter. @MrsBennet its a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a gd fortune must B in wnt of a wife. – Read this classic in 140 character snippets!

Twitter client review: Mixero

on September 15th, 2009

I have come across this application recently, thanks to a Twitter friend (@erosnicolau). Not being particularly happy with TweetDeck, or Twhirl, or any of the other apps I have used so far I thought I’d give it a go and fell in love. To start with, Mixero looks sexy. I’m not sure how you guys [...]

Twitter Resources

on January 15th, 2009

I have been trying for a while now to finish writing a beginner’s guide to Twitter; I suppose I will finish it, some day, but I realised it was quickly becoming a list of links to various applications and resources. So in the meanwhile I thought I should just offer those here, as a reference [...]

Using the Follow me on Twitter Badges on WordPress / Blogger

on December 13th, 2008

Since I have uploaded the Follow me on Twitter badges one question I get a lot is “How do I put them on my site/blog?”. So, this is a brief guide to using the Twitter badges – both for using a single badge or rotating a selection of badges. I hope it will make things [...]

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Copywriting for social media

on November 3rd, 2008

Do forgive me this brief rant, I just came out of yet another meeting I tried to explain blogging and mcroblogging to corporate types. Exhausting. For some reason, it seems very difficult for the corporate world to relate to social media. It’s a little like trying to convert a B2B marketer to B2C: whatever they [...]

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