The ‘Twitter Effect’: Possibilities and limits

Is there a “Twitter Effect,” by which the rapid spread of information through the microblogging service can crush a Web site with traffic? As I see it, the answer is yes, but it’s not as simple as it might appear at first blush. First, the background: Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore, whose Twitter postings more than [...]

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Twittersheep tells you more about your followers

If you’re wondering about the people who subscribe to your Twitter feed, there’s a newish service out called Twittersheep that will tell you about them. It scours your list of followers and pulls together a tag cloud with various keywords to describe them. If you remember Tweetclouds, the idea is similar, except instead of going [...]

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