7 posts tagged “twitter”
Friday's Bear Hug event on open microblogging was an interesting event which we filmed in a C-SPAN type of way. Here's a photo of Evan Prodromou of Laconica and identi.ca, at the Sept. 12, 2008 Bear Hug Camp at CNet in San Francisco, carried live by TWiT. Photo by
Zach Copley.
Jason Calacanis says that every time he is on TWiT, he gets more followers on Facebook and Twitter. To wit: The TWiT effect on Twitter
As you may know from following Leo and several other popular feeds on Twitter, a few are listing 65,535 followers.
Untrue. Leo only had about 7,000 followers when this bug surfaced.
But why the bug 65,535? Well, this number has some very special connotations, as some of you reading know well. if you look at the Wikipedia entry for 65,535, it's a Mersenne number, which is one less than a power of two.
When Leo switched from Twitter to Jaiku last weekend, it created more than a few tweets. Rafe Needleman described the phenomenon as the 'The Laporte Effect.' Here's some interesting pieces of the recent conversation.
Leo's gotten big into Twitter recently, which although fascinating and well named, is not related to TWiT. He now has 1453 followers watching his every move. As they say in Spanish, Uuf! (translation: that's a whole lot of people).
