What’s a tweetwall?
A tweetwall lets you display only the tweets you’re interested in from everywhere on Twitter, use it to track hashtags, usernames, and keywords. The possibilities are up to you.
che dire? era ora.
Google Wave is the Emperors New Clothes Everyone needs to step back and get real! In a recent FreshWorks Blog post, Charlie Osmond suggests Google Wave is better than Twitter at conferences:
http://blog.freshnetworks.com/2009/11/google-wave-vs-twitter-at-conferences/ Don't get me wrong - I think Wave is interesting - but Twitter is changing the World. Wave is just a niche collaboration tool - nothing more.
Why Twitter beats Wave at conferences
There may be an advantage, under some circumstances, in a Twitter API tool that organises a #hashtag somehow (but not to the extent of Wave). As an abstract notion Wave is great - but lets think about real world situations when we would actually find it useful. Wave seems to add complexity rather than remove it.
I can see Wave being a success in some very niche cases, when they've worked out the issues. Because Google make it, millions will use it. For making wikis at conferences - for those who understand it, have a full web browser & the inclination - it may add value alongside Twitter. Historians & Archaeologists will thank us in future too.
Many people will be fiddling around with Lists, the newest shiny twitter feature for the first time, today, so it seemed an apropos launch date for 'Make a List Monday' and the related twitter hashtag, #malm
There's plenty of commentary already on the how's and why's of creating them, clever use cases, and the impact list will have on Twitter, so I'll just cover the intent and context of 'Make a List Monday' and #malm.The hope is that each Monday, my followers, your followers' followers, those on my lists, and those on the lists of those on our lists, take a second to consider their inbound and outbound twitter channels, and share their unique perspectives with others in the form of a new list to suggest.Much like Follow Friday #ff, I'm hoping #malm becomes a helpful way to learn about new people, communities, channels, and topics on twitter via these lists.Also, in the case of #ff, less is more with #malm; Rather than simply posting a litany of lists you've created, there's more immediate and ultimate value in selecting one or a few, and adding the purpose and/or rationale behind the list(s) to your fellow followers.Since each twitter account is currently limited to creating 20 lists, I know the intrinsic ceiling that we'd hit if users actually strictly made and shared a new list each week. Rather than having March 15th as the apocalypse for our nascent idea, I hope it just serves as a helpful and fun reminder each Monday to share a list (and include #malm).To walk-the-walk and not just tweet-the-tweet, I just created my newest twitter list, and will be sharing it in a tweet with the #malm hashtag, post haste. Look forward to learning your feedback. Thanks in advance!
@twistedrufus To make your tweet more easily searchable, just type # + the word in your tweet! hashtag twitter.. http://ping.fm/dLeSL
