TimH | 2 months ago
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TimH | 14 years ago
The author of the "Five Levels" article is the CEO of Sonic.
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TimH | 15 years ago
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TimH | 15 years ago
People took out their wallets, and paid. See if you can find the 28 people who matched. It's not easy - they're not getting any PR. This was someone who on a whim decided to attempt to raise money for a charity through the Twitter medium, and he gained a lot of support. The trigger was favs, not RTs - I'd argue it's not a PR stunt.
I do share your cynicism about the Iran situation, but I think Twitter can be used as an effective tool around smaller issues as demonstrated.
What if in the future there are 2 billion twitter users instead of 170 million? Do you think there will generally be higher awareness of global issues? Before you can act on something you need to be aware of it right?
TimH | 15 years ago
28 people matched the 10c donation, and there was $8,000 of adhoc donations inspired by the action. See: http://favstar.fm/users/Mike_FTW/status/27901780152
TimH | 15 years ago
TimH | 15 years ago
From there click on the recent button to see what tweets of yours were recently faved, or the given button to see what you have faved.
I've recently started integrating RT tracking too, as tech tweeters do tend to use RT more than likes.
If you log into http://favstar.fm once, it will start collecting favs and RTs you give and receive almost instantly. Otherwise it collects them more slowly using twitter's REST api.
TimH | 15 years ago
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TimH | 16 years ago
I think it's wrong to state that Twitter is censoring, and is harmful. It should have been posted as a question instead.
[edit: The poster's reviewed it.]
TimH | 16 years ago