Here is the link to Eventrack MCU2008.
Will add some more information soon.
Twitter search engine (you can search for your name or any term you want, can also subscribe to search via RSS or email (similar to Google Alert))
Have the RSS feed of your blog, Flickr, etc. update your Twitter
Twitter folks to follow depending on the topic you're interested in
Discussion Notes (added by Ayelet)
Twitter allows users to send updates, which are text based posts, up to 140 characters longs via the Twitter website, IM, cell phone or third party applications like Twiterrific or Facebook.It is like micro blogging.You can set up a following - people who want to know what you are doing.
Question: I remember the book Being Here Now about being present and when I look at Twitter, I wonder what it really is all about. It seems to me like it tracks trivial information about people—what am I missing?
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- _Being Here Now_was about connectivity with something bigger. You can learn to weed out the minutia and see things happening professionally and intellectually on Twitter. For me, it is satisfying to be able to share with my community__
- I apprise my community of developments and communicate changes in a timely manner
- It has social value for some people” “I am able to provide my family and friends abroad with updates on what I am doing”
- For some, it has been a place of intense connection with others and adds value in relationship building
- While some people believe it is the younger generation that uses this tool, demographics show it is most popular with the “middle aged” segment
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Question: Is there a domain you can scope?
- There is no group functionality; just accounts__
- You can build a following__
- You can gain access to a community and can shop for others to follow__
- Use @ to directly respond to someone specific__
- You can also search for a phrase or name and track it__
- You can choose to follow some people and they may not choose to follow you__
- It’s a choice of who you want to pay attention to and who pays attention to you__
- There was an example of a recent conversation about Guy Kawasaki on the value of Twitter. He said that he has 6,000 people who follow him.He uses it to get suggestions. The beauty of Twitter is that it is 140 characters longs and it keeps communication short and quick. It’s a fast information exchange where he can ping his community and get fast recommendations.__
Question: Do people combine work and personal information?
- Have policy of not twitting anything I wouldn’t tell a stranger
- You have to remember that it’s public
- There is the same accountability as in the real world and web 2.0
- It is an extension of you
- People tend to be successful in marketing themselves
- They provide timely, useful and some times entertaining information
- Feeding traffic in thinking
- They link their twitter to their blog
- Providing useful links and urls
Misc. Notes
- Most useful command is Track_an event like MCU08
- Text to 40404
- Twitter Vision shows twits from around the world
- People also use tags to create a following