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Twitter.com inspired by Amplify.com ideas? #hovercards

Hmm, I just stopped myself from saying ’stealing’.

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Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we’ve been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we’re introducing a feature called Hovercards that will be a handy way to interact with the folks behind each tweet.Read more at blog.twitter.com
 

Follow Drew Carey on Twitter: you will help raise $100,000 for Lance Armstrong Foundation

First of all, it is a good intent by a celebrity.  Second, this shows another way Twitter can be so influential and useful.  Third, it wouldn’t take much for anyone to help in the cause, just follow his @drewfromtv account on Twitter and you’re ultimately helping raise money for the foundation.  Win-win situation for all.

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He’s enjoying early success: today The Price is Right host Drew Carey placed a bid for $25K, far in excess of the $10K minimum bid. What’s more, Carey says he will pay $100,000 if his current account (@drewfromTV) exceeds 100,000 followers by November 9th.
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Brilliant Idea by WH: Tweet Your Senator

Brilliant idea.

And they say Twitter was blocked in WH.

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Tweet Your Senator
We’re calling and writing letters — and now there’s a new way to contact your representatives.


Enter your zip code in the box below to “tweet” one of your senators to tell them to support real health insurance reform this year.


Please use all the hashtags provided so we can track your tweets on the map to the right.

Read more at www.barackobama.com
 

Is it just me or the world needs Twitter alternate?

How could such a huge phenomenon sustain complete downtime?

I don’t get it.

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The server at twitter.com is taking too long to respond.

Read more at twitter.com
 

Twitter Doesn’t Get Community

#fixreplies, #twitterfail

Amplify’d from fastwonderblog.com via Google Reader

This is very dangerous for Twitter, since the service only survives because of the community of people who use Twitter. By all technical measures, Identica / Laconica is a superior platform for Twitter-like conversations, but few people use it. Why? Because the community is already on Twitter, and getting a community to move to a new service is close to impossible unless the community isn’t being supported. Missteps, like this one, have the potential to drive the community away from Twitter. If the community moves away from Twitter and to a new service, Twitter will die, because without the community, Twitter has nothing.

Read more at fastwonderblog.com