Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Jul
31

Display Your Latest Tweet With PHP

I get asked, literally some times every so often, the best way to integrate your latest tweet into Wordpress. The beauty of this code is that it replaces common symbols with their appropriate equivalents, and it parses links perfectly.

 
Mar
23

Facebook vs. Twitter

Facebook content for the most part consists of secondary information about what you’re doing on Facebook. Its the ripples in the pool as you move around. Twitter content IS what you’re doing. Twitter is the actual swimming – you have to take the strokes. This distinction is important because intentional content creation has to be sustained. Secondary content creation is a side affect and just happens.

 
Jan
5

Cross-Posting

A post from about a month ago on joestump.net is incredibly critical of cross-posting. Mr. Stump disagrees that Twitter can be used for anything except 140-character posts that let him know what the user is doing. I disagree with this viewpoint, mainly after looking at my blog statistics for the first 14 hours of the launch [...]