Cthalloween officially ended tonight about 45 minutes ago, and it was a ton of fun! Many thanks to our organizers @jaybushman, @kriskowal, @segphault, and yours truly, @joshlewis. A few stats: We had over 1000 tweets during the event itself, not to mention several hundred before and after the official start and end times. 133 people [...]
Last year, we orchestrated War of the Worlds 2.0 on Twitter. Many people had fun, and Wired wrote about it. You didn’t think we’d stop there, did you? No, of course not. You’re a reasonable person. I know many of you may be unfamiliar with the work of H.P. Lovecraft. That’s perfectly OK. In fact, [...]
I’m pretty opinionated when it comes to Twitter. I use it a lot, and I’m often annoyed by it almost as much as I’m delighted by it. Because of that, I’ve built up a list of etiquette rules in my head over time, and I’d like to share those rules with you now. I’d love to hear yours in the comments.
Recently on Twitter, I wrote a very confusingly-worded feature request. I later realized the idea made no sense after being compressed into 140 characters, and I figured I should probably just write about it here. I think it would be really useful, and I hope they implement it. When a person follows you on Twitter, [...]
The topic of how Twitter might make money is so popular these days that people are writing Onion-like parodies of news stories announcing Twitter’s plans. That particular story was a really popular link on Twitter today. But the question remains: how will Twitter make money? I think I know at least one of the ways [...]
I already wrote about the War of the Worlds 2.0 plan made by Kris Kowal (with some minor help from me) and encouraged you all to try it out. I was really happy to see that some of you did! Hundreds of people participated (including @biz, one of the co-founders of Twitter, who participated with one tweet). Most [...]
Kris Kowal; friend, former Apple coworker, and JavaScript god; has taken the ideas in my previous Twitter Fiction entry and the (much-earlier) work of Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul and he has written up a plan. You must read this plan. It sounds to me like Halloween on Twitter is going to be a blast this [...]
