Filed under: Abraham Harrison LLC, Social Graphs, Social Meda, Social Network Services, Social Networking, Social Networks, Twitter, Twittergram

I’m finding Twitter to be one of the more pleasurable experiences I’ve had on the Internet. The connections I’m making and am seeing being made are amazing. The way many of us banded together to use “peavatars” in support of Susan Reynolds was amazing. That’s the beauty of community and social media.

Twitter, to me, is not a community itself, but instead has a series of interconnected series of them. Just like the real world. But in the real world, tragedies happen.

And this week a horrendous tragedy happened on a highway in Louisiana. Ashley Spencer lost her life. She had happened to be @ashpeamomma on Twitter.

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6 Comments » Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Jonathan Trenn

Filed under: Jaiku, Online Participation, Pownce, Reputation Management, Reputation Rehabilitation, Social Graphs, Social Networking, Social Networks, Social News, Social Unrest, Social Utilities, Twitter, Twittergram

Yesterday morning I woke to find that former Pakistani president Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated. Found out on Twitter. Now Twitter didn’t break the story, nor did Twitter give extensive coverage by itself.

But Twitter as a utility showed how it is becoming has become an extremely vital vehicle of the spreading of information. People were sharing news articles, providing links, giving others access to the latest information.

If the internet is a tangled web of computer networks, then Twitter is a tangled web of human relationships and conversations. By the time I write an post this blog entry, news of an event could have reached thousands of people.

Businesses must realize that in the world of Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and others rumors, customer complaints, etc. can spread like wildfire. People can read, send, link, point to, blog about, forward, comment on YOU within a matter of a half an hour.

This goes back to the concept of reputation management. It’s a whole new ballgame and I bet most PR firms and departments haven’t a clue. It will take a few disasters for it too sink in.

2 Comments » Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Jonathan Trenn

Filed under: Twitter, Twittergram

Last night I discovered Twittergram on Twitter from Steve Rubel and gave it a try. It allows you to upload 200k sound files and have them posted via a TinyUrl link to Twitter. I needed a 200k file so I fired up Audacity and started recording. I took the creative route: Don’t Stop Believing by the Chris Abraham Choir, Do You Hear the People Sing?, I’m So Pretty, More Pretty, Happy Birthday to You, & The Hills are Alive. Here’s why I am a good technologist: I play and am curious — I have fun with it. No, I wasn’t drunk and I wasn’t that bored. But when I was done, I laughed my ass off at my own folly.

2 Comments » Posted on July 5th, 2007 by Chris Abraham


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