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Free icon set twitter icons

Blogger.Iconshock — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:53:18 +0000

Tweet tweet! This week we are giving away a free set of 5 icons with everything you need to get your blue bird flying and your followers flowing. We made a cute little fellow that can fit well with lots of web site styles, form minimalistic to colorful and overcrowded.

Oh, and BTW. don’t forget to follow us on twitter. If you people haven’t noticed, we are giving from 30% to 40% discount once a week to all our purchases through our twitter link, so if you get bored with my daily nonsense, there’s still a cool reason to follow us.

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If the Twitter community were 100 people.

Blogger.Iconshock — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:38:12 +0000

These visualizations by our friends of Information is Beautiful are always thought provoking and certainly beautiful. Check out these graphs to see what is the real relevance of the little blue bird in the entire net panorama.

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Some thoughts about Twitter by it’s founder, Jack Dorsey

Blogger.Iconshock — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:11:56 +0000

Now days I see websites saying that Twitter is going to rule the world, and in others, they say twitter is sinking faster than the Titanic. Trend? Tangible sign of human evolution? Best marketing tool ever? The first step towards the apocalypse? The only fact is that no one can be indifferent about Twitter. Check out this Q&A made by Boonsri Dickinson for Discover Magazine to Jack Dorsey, founder of little blue bird everyone is talking about.

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Greatest Twitter blunders

Blogger.Iconshock — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:38:09 +0000

It’s hard to deny how new technologies affect the way our social patterns develop and evolve. These day’s you hear things like “tweetiquette”, and see police bulletins talking about “facebook safety rules”; new concepts impossible to understand just a few years ago. Melissa Lafsky made this article for Discover Magazine, where she shows us the biggest misuses and imprudence made in twitter in various fields, like politics and entertainment. You’ll sure find some laughs here.

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When 140 characters aren’t enough

Blogger.Iconshock — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:54:56 +0000

If you ever complained about the difficulties of discussing Nietzsche and Kant on Twitter, we’ve found the right thing for you! Woofer is a “macroblogging” platform very similar to twitter, except for one thing: you have a minimum character count of 1400 characters. Are you feeling chatty?

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Twitter, But Were Afraid to Ask

Blogger.Iconshock — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:24:37 +0000

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Well, Twitter is no longer the best “next” thing. Twitter is actually THE HOT topic of the day, alongside Barak Obama, Swine Flu, and Rihanna’s buttocks.

But what the hell is Twitter? Why is it so hard to understand and harness after being around for almost three years?
We all know the general concept: What are you doing?
Can anything be simpler than that?

This is the charm of it all. Unlike my blogs, their premise is clear and straightforward. In 140 characters you are supposed to tell people what you are doing at any given time. You just have to create an account in order to begin picking up virtual friends. Either you “follow” or you be “followed”. Each time you post what you are doing, the message ends up in a stream of text available to your followers. You can also send direct messages between friends, and reply posts. All messages are sent via the Twitter page or via add-ons for your desktop, browser or mobile phone. The main difference with an Email service or instant messaging is that you don’t have to create groups or anything like that to send a single message to a massive amount of destinataries at the same time. How easy could it be from Gmail or messenger to send a message to a thousand or more recipients? Hmm, wait a sec, isn’t that spamming?

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