• Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Anil Dash turned his blog post on the web we lost1 into a talk at the Berkman Center at Harvard:
He posted a bunch of links on his blog that expand on the ideas put forth in his talk. Good stuff, all around.
• Cologne, Germany
As a little follow-up to yesterday’s post and with properly good timing, Twitter changed the way they render embedded Tweets:
Twitter Cards for WordPress blogs lostfocus.de/archives/2013/…
— LostFocus (@lostfocus) Januar 22, 2013
Even more reason to add Twitter Cards.
• Cologne, Germany
What Open Graph is for Facebook, Twitter Cards are for… well, Twitter:
Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpages, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a “card” added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers.
While Facebook parses Open Graph tags from every page, you have to sign up for Twitter Cards.
Before you do that, you need to have properly working Twitter Cards metatags on your page, which is fortunately not that complicated – either follow their instructions for your CMS or enjoy the fact that you are using WordPress and install Niall Kennedy’s Twitter Cards plugin. If you’re lazy like me and don’t want to fiddle around with your theme’s function.php, just use my Twitter Cards Enhancer plugin which includes the tags automatically. To get the proper attribution tags, you’ll have to fill out two (new) fields in your WordPress backend, though:
Put your blog’s twitter account under “Settings”:
And each author on your blog should put their twitter account under “Users” → “Your Profile”:
Once you’re done with that, use Twitter’s test tool and apply for inclusion. When everything works out as intended, tweets that include your posts will start to look like this:
Or probably better.
• Cologne, Germany
Millions of people use Twitter on a regular basis, but how many of them are bona fide masters of the microblogging medium? If you ask them, more than 181,000. That’s according to new data from internet marketing strategist B.L. Ochman, who recently found that as of January 2013, no less than 181,354 Twitter users include the phrase “social media” in their bios. Of these users, nearly 22,000 identify as “social media mavens,” 21,800 consider themselves “social media ninjas,” and 20,000 think of themselves as “social media evangelists.”
181,000 Twitter users think they’re really good at using Twitter
• Dusseldorf, Germany
I don’t know how this happened.
Aha: Lazy Blog Ep. 20
Siehe auch: Twitter is a machine for continual self-reinvention bzw Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook dazu dann auch Teile dieses Gesprächs mit u.A. Gina Trapani, die ThinkUp startete.
I know, I know, there’s not that much action anymore on Flickr, but I still judge every single web start-up and social network by how it fares in comparison to Flickr and hardly any get even close.
Twitter used to – we all know how that’s going.
Twttr seems to be simple sms-blogging.
— Dominik Schwind (@dominik) Juli 20, 2006
Mich erinnert das ein bisschen an den Wall Street Banker, der im Herzen tiefer und ehrlicher Marxist ist.
Why Your Complaint About Your Complaints About Twitter Is Wrong
@dominik Yo, wanna delete your dailybooth account and twitter account?My name is Dominik and you’re an old goat you fucking prick..
— Dominik (@KOTDominik) Juni 13, 2012
The kind of stuff you have to deal with when being popular, err, when having a first name as your twitter handle.
Es fing alles vor etwa einer Woche an, als Marc plötzlich meinte, es müsse seine wütenden Tweets in einen eigenen Account auslagern, selbstverständlich komplett in Großbuchstaben:
https://twitter.com/RageGoertz/status/190722699755126785
Das kam so gut an, daß sich der übliche Verdächtige auch einen Rage-Account machte:
VERDAMMT IST DAS NERVIG SICH BEI TWITTER NEU ANZUMELDEN!
— Martin Rageschneyra (@rageschneyra) April 16, 2012
Und dann ging es sowieso direkt bergab:
VERDAMMT NOCHMAL MUSS ICH AUCH JEDEN VERKACKTEN TREND MITMACHEN!
— Rageminik (@rageminik) April 16, 2012
Während die ersten beiden Herren mit viel Inbrunst vor sich hin ragen, überlege ich mir im Moment noch, wie viel Rage überhaupt aus mir herauszuholen ist.
Ich tendiere ja dann doch eher zu leiser Verzweiflung, vielleicht sollte ich mir @despairminik holen.
On Twitter I am mostly myself – or only a tiny bit more over-sharing and neurotic than the real me. And I guess most of my followers can at least guess that this is the case.1
I still often censor myself. Following many comedians on Twitter or listening to their podcasts started an urge in me to often tweet extremely offensive and/or personal stuff that does not actually represent me, but would be funny. For people with a certain kind of humor, but still funny.
So I am in a bit of a conundrum, really. Some of my followers are potential future bosses and/or2 romantic interests. And I am not too sure how well this kind of humor would go down with these people. Especially when it does not even go down well with me if I’m not in the mood for raunchy humor.
And now I have no idea what to do with my occacional outbursts of really terrible jokes™ – I’m not really willing to start a second3 twitter account for that. The people I do want to read my “funny” tweets are already following me. Which is pretty surprising in itself.
Maybe I should just post them here instead. It’s not like somebody is reading them here.
Twitter geht nach Berlin, Chef kommt von BILD.de
Wenn man sowieso schon der Überzeugung ist, daß das Internet vor die Hunde geht, dann ist dies ein weiterer Datenpunkt, um diese Theorie zu unterstützen. ᔥ@dreamseer
Twitter is a fragile and fleeting place. Give your ideas and thoughts the permanent home they deserve.
bedenklich, wie wahrscheinlich es mittlerweile ist, dass ganze kulturen oder landstriche einfach ausgelöscht werden, weil die gründer die eigene position innerhalb ihres metaspiels gewinnen oder zumindest konsolidieren wollen