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According to the Guardian, Twitter just passed 10 billion tweets. We’re not sure what to make of that except it has us wondering how many of those 10 billion tweets are about breakfast.
Also on today’s show:
Google Buzz, a wonderful tool to find relevant people to network with on Twitter, and Google declares desktop computers will become irrelevant in 3 years. Yeah. Right.
Friday Traffic Report Radio with Jack Humphrey and Jim Stroud
Links from the show:
Follower Wonk: Twitter research tool for finding people by keywords in their Twitter bios.
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- BuzzCanTweet.com – Crossing Buzz With Twitter (killerstartups.com)
- Twitter Perceptions of Google Buzz Over Time [INFOGRAPHIC] (mashable.com)
- FollowerWonk – search twitter users by Bio, Name and Location (twi5.com)
- Top Ten Ways To Fix Google Buzz (techcrunch.com)
- BuzzAware. Yup, Now There’s An App Directory For Google Buzz (techcrunch.com)
- 3 Cool Twitter & Google Maps Mashups You Should Check Out (makeuseof.com)
- Kiss Your Desktop Goodbye Asserts Googler (arnoldit.com)
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I also don’t think desktops are going anywhere, too many people love using desktops over laptops for various reasons.
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I think a lot of people waste a lot of time on Twitter and other social networking sites. When used properly it can be good for business, and for staying connected with family and friends, but it can be addictive for some people.
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10 billion Tweets? It goes to show how much people like tweeting. I am just being caught up in tweeting recently.
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I agree that it will take a long time for desktops to be obsolete, but this is kind of the direction things are heading. However, as this is also the direction Google wants things to head, their statement isn’t too surprising. The Cloud Computing Model will likely take off, but it will be a long time before it replaces traditional computers…
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Let me add my 2sence, for the younger generation they r all about the laptop, for the older generation they r all about the desktop, and probably around 20yr from now desktop will be out of reach, as for social networking sites people r using it for the wrong perpost,
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10 billion tweets… Maybe that explains why I see the picture of that whale so often!
Quality, not quantity!
10 billion tweets? Wow. I never really got into the whole Twitter craze, just because I didn’t see the value in sending out these little tweets. People keep telling me how great it is for networking and business marketing, but I still think it’s just a fad. Facebook on the other hand is a different story…
I don’t think desktops will become irrelevant, I simply think they will evolve. People will have a multi-media monitor in their living rooms where they will watch TV, surf the ‘net, operate home businesses etc… with wireless keyboards.
I still call it a desktop computer, but maybe “multi-media” server would be more appropriate? Irrelevant…uhhh, no.
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That’s certainly some milestone, it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the general catorgorys of tweets
Cheers
graeme
10 billion Tweets…that’s a great number mate.
I think Google kinda rushes with the statement that desktop PCs will become irrelevant, that’s really not going to happen in 10 years either.
Desktop will become obsolete someday but not in 10 years. It will be a while yet. Baby Boomers are still working on how to use the desktop and much less they are not use to laptops. I like using my iPhone myself. It goes with me anywhere.
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