Couple of things I’d like to remind here:
It’s only at webpage: Twitter.com If you RT from webpage, those RTs aren’t shown anywhere else…(thinking seriously about implications for third-party services, and more importantly, for users themselves! -read below)
If you are not Twitter friends, RTs won’t visible.
You can undo retweet
You can deactivate someone’s RTs, ie. if you [...]
Remember the now-web (or flow web or live web…)? That is bringing a new type of media, what J.Pulver accordingly coins as ‘now media’.
Fears are that traditional media will disappear. Not sure about that, they will end up adapting themselves (just like the mainstream public will, ie, not us -the web savvy). Traditional media’s problem [...]
Update: It looks like twitter is a lot healthier, it raised from 20 urls/sec to 40 at once on Sunday around 8.30PM GMT+2
We track the rates of every incoming tweets that contains a URL for our MicroPlaza service. Yesterday we saw in real-time a dramatic drop from a rate close to 50 tweets a second [...]
