Paul Jacobson

Tag: twitter

  • After Twitter and Facebook

    The latest sign of an increasingly closed and Balkanised Web is Twitter’s controversial updates to its API which further restrict anything that is not actually made by Twitter. Developers’ reactions range from disappointment to outrage Twitter remains dominant in its space because there is nothing else. Facebook also dominates the social sharing space with its…

  • Is Twitter turning (more) evil?

    Draconian suspension of #Indy journalist Guy Adams account by #Twitterfollowing criticism of #NBC #Olympics coverage independent.co.uk/sport/olympics… — Gideons Way (@Gideons_Way) July 30, 2012 The Guardian posted an article about Twitter’s suspension of a journalist’s, Guy Adams’, Twitter profile after the NBC (a US broadcaster making a complete hash of its Olympic broadcasts to the USA)…

  • We are not in Twitterville anymore, at least not how you remember it

    Twitter is most definitely not what it used to be in a number of respects: “These are the features that make Twitter Twitter,” Sippey wrote, referring to expanded tweets. For established Twitter users and developers, that statement is hard to swallow. For one thing, expanded tweets are a brand-new product that hasn’t been around long…

  • LinkedIn unfollows Twitter

    I think tweets disappearing from LinkedIn streams is a good thing. It cleans up those streams quite a bit. David Graham has a few thoughts about this little breakup which are worth reading. David is a local LinkedIn guru so he is someone you should pay attention to if you rely on LinkedIn: I wonder…

  • When you are the troll

    There are days when the filters between impulse to tweet and actually tweeting stuff take a break and I behave like a self-righteous ass. Today was one of those days. I was at Pick ‘n Pay Norwood where I am practically conditioned to be agitated and found myself in long queues with cranky kids and…

  • Twitter comes to the rescue as @PigSpotter helps co-ordinate hijack rescue

    I saw this headline this morning in The Star (read the article on IOL): An sms and social network frenzy saved a Joburg man who was trapped in his car boot after being hijacked at the weekend. What a terrific story and a great ending for the poor guy who was hijacked. I disagree that…

  • Twitter conditioned me to write badly

    The problem with using Twitter a lot is that I catch myself writing truncated sentences and leaving out words as if I still have to fit my thoughts into 140 characters. At least blogs, Facebook and Google+ let me compose complete thoughts. I know what the response to this is: Twitter’s constraints force users to…

  • I wasn't seriously complaining but @MTNSouthAfrica still came through

    All I want from @MTNSouthAfrica is ubiquitous, high speed data access everywhere I go. Is that so much to ask? — Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) February 10, 2012 I tweeted this fairly facetious complaint this morning more due to a silly mood than any real complaint about MTN’s data network coverage. Our DSL line was on…