Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Trends, Tweets | Posted on 12-10-2009
“The twitter phenomenon continues to swirl unpredictably in the vortex created as technology empowers human interaction and communication, re-defining the laws of natural flow and engagement.” – Kent Beatty
#HunkAlert is the hash tag associated with the frenetic twitter activity known as, wait for it: the “HunkAlert”. This (recent) website traces it’s (recent) history back to the “hunkalert” and “babealert” tweets that Sarah Marshall and friends started just a few months ago. If you do a little analysis you can trace all this hunkalert/babealert stuff right back to the synaptic activity in Sarah Marshall’s frontal cortex. Actually, I suspect that she enhanced her theta brain waves, perhaps with the help of this audio file, resulting in an extreme state of relaxation, creativity and vivid mental twitter imagery –). Fortunately for us, this EEG of Sarah’s brain was taken just moments B4 the 1st #hunkalert tweet was released into the twitterverse -).
Sarah’s “treat for the ladies of twitter” enables “twitter ladies” to nominate their favorite twitter hunks as a #hunkalert. There are normally more than one hundred nominations per day! If you would like to take a peek into the #hunkalert and #babealert world just do a tweetdeck or twitter search on “@Americanwomannn” (Sarah Marshall’s twitter name) [notice there are three “n’s”].
The #HunkAlert site describes it’s basic purpose: “… to recognize and honor those individuals for their Twitter community participation, social interaction and outstanding qualities…”. The “outstanding qualities” are not defined and I’m afraid to ask!
To send a nomination, just post a tweet on twitter containing the nominee’s twitter username followed by #hunkalert #nominee, i.e. “#hunkalert #nominee @druckenmiller”. 4 more examples just check out @Americanwomannn’s tweet stream or see the tweets below. Confidential nominations may be sent by DM (direct message) to Sarah. She will take care of the nomination for you.
Sarah Marshall is the creative twitter genius who has brought her HunkAlert site into being. She is very Tweative and energetic. Visit her site (hunkalert) to see galleries of nominees and get in on the fun!
With the rise of Twitter, growing faster than a weed in the garden patch it is such an exciting time to be so involved and a part of the social media landscape. I love numbers and statistics. I guess that is why I am drawn to stuff like this video. I like how the information is presented. So it’s as much as style as the numbers themselves.
Did you know? 4.0 Enjoy
The lates version of their video series. Content by XPLANE, The Economist, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Laura Bestler. Design and development by XPLANE.
Posted by Kevin McIntyre | Posted in Trends, Tweets, Twitter | Posted on 18-09-2009
These numbers should leave no doubt about the meteoric rise of Twitter and other social media outlets. The thing that sets Twitter apart is that the conversation is in real time. Look at those Twitter numbers especially the number of Tweets per day.
Twitter: 23 million unique visitors/day; 3 million tweets/day
YouTube: 85 million video views/day
Facebook: 300 million active users, 122 million visits/day
LinkedIn: 43 million members; 13 million daily avg visits
Blogs: 133 million currently indexed by Technorati.
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Broadcasting, Tweets | Posted on 01-09-2009
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s family used twitter (and a website) to update details about arrangements, who would speak at the Friday memorial service and famous Edward Kennedy quotes. (Funeral photos / Funeral Program)
Through the use of twitter and their website, the family was able to keep people directly informed and make information available to people who could not attend in person. This gave the family the ability to manage events related information in a way that could not have been done had the coverage been left entirely to the press.
(This post is in no way an endorsement of Senator Edward Kennedy’s views, opinions or actions and is merely an observation of how twitter is being used as it becomes an ever more central part of how we communicate.)
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Misc, Tweets | Posted on 31-08-2009
In the early morning hours of August 27th, 2009, John Mayer (@johncmayer) took to twitter to reveal his “criminal” past and challenge famous investigative celebrity reporter Harry Levin (@HarveyLevinTMZ – editor at TMZ.com) to produce John’s mug shot.
Within 14 hours Harry produced the mug shot from when John Mayer was arrested in Atlanta on May 26, 2001 for driving with a suspended license:
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Trends, Tweets | Posted on 30-08-2009
This house in the city of Austell, Georgia, is tweeting to find a new owner. It seems to be lonely since it’s current owner decamped for Charlotte, N.C.
@PrinceSammie one person that lived here: Buccaneers fan. His wife: Carolina Panthers fan. Talk about #Drama
RT @BizWriterKristi got sort of an odd letter from Home Depot thanking me for being a loyal customer. [owner never goes-I'm in good shape]
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Tweets | Posted on 29-08-2009
Adam Goldstein’s final tweet was a poetic note: a lyric from a Grandmaster Flash song. This may have been his last message to the outside world.
According to the New York Times, Adam, 36, was found dead Friday, August 28th, 2009 with a crack pipe and prescription drugs several days after his last communication with friends – emergency workers broke down the door after friends tried for days to reach him. Friends said that he was having trouble coping with pain & stress from the plane crash he survived last year – several of his friends didn’t survive.
Many celebrities are using twitter as their broadcasting tool of choice. Was this tweet a cry for help, a last cryptic message or simply tweeting lyrics? (His twitter account was verified)Our condolences to his family.
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Tweets, Twitter | Posted on 26-07-2009
On the Isle of Wight, from a 16th Century Cottage comes tweets!
Andy Stanford-Clark, an IBM computer engineer, who lives on the Isle of Wight, in the UK, and in a 16th century thatched Elizabethan Cottage, has wired up his home to twitter!
The building ‘itself’ can tweet!
Andy wired his home with sensors to tweet status updates i.e. “A mouse has been caught in the study.” Any device in the house can send a message to twitter about what it’s doing! Andy receives tweets to his mobile phone about open windows, left-on lights, mouse traps and broken garden hoses. The house tweets it’s energy use every time an additional $16 has been spent on utilities. Andy predicts this technology will be available to every home in just two to three years.
Posted by David Druckenmiller | Posted in Facebook, Tweets, Twitter | Posted on 21-07-2009
Ever wonder what the characters "#fb" mean in a tweet? This is a technique used by a twitter user to selectively send their tweets (that contain these characters) to their Facebook status, called "Selective Twitter Status".
Did you know you can connect Facebook and Twitter? There are currently two options …
1. Use of the Facebook application "Twitter" [Everything you tweet goes to Facebook.]
Login to Facebook
Type in "twitter" in the search box at the upper tight.
Select "Twitter" application listing in the search results
Select "Go to Application"
Select "Allow"
Type in your twitter account name, password
Now all your tweets in twitter will forward automatically to your Facebook status.
2. Use of the Facebook application "Selective Twitter Status" [You decide which tweet goes to Facebook ]
Login to Facebook
Type in "Selective Twitter Status" in the search box at the upper right.
Select "Selective Twitter Status" in the search results
Select "Go to Applicaiton"
Select "Allow"
Type in your twitter account name, password
Now, when you type a twitter message and YOU WANT the post to go to your Facebook status, put the characters #fb as the last three characters in your tweet.
This post will go to facebook and only this post.
(If you DO NOT WANT the tweet to go to facebook do not type #fb)
Personally, I use "Selective Twitter Status" as my tweets tend to be more business and technology oriented where as my Facebook posts are more on the personal side. Some of my Facebook friends think my tweets and twitter are a bit wacky (go figure?) so I limit what I send to from Twitter to Facebook.
#HunkAlert is the hash tag associated with the frenetic twitter activity known as, wait for it: the “HunkAlert”. This (recent) website traces it’s (recent) history back to the “hunkalert” and “babealert” tweets that Sarah Marshall and friends started just a few months ago. If you do a little analysis you can trace all this hunkalert/babealert stuff right back to the synaptic activity in Sarah Marshall’s frontal cortex. Actually, I suspect that she enhanced her theta brain waves, perhaps with the help of this audio file, resulting in an extreme state of relaxation, creativity and vivid mental twitter imagery –). Fortunately for us, this EEG of Sarah’s brain was taken just moments B4 the 1st #hunkalert tweet was released into the twitterverse -).
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