Concept Twitters

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Yesterday in class we created twitter narratives in the vein of Natural History Whale and Mars Phoenix Lander. We then had a race to see who could add the most followers in an hour… Neil Patrick Harris won.

Tay Zonday: don’t run away from the heat

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Our favorite reigning chocolate just released an intimate Q&A in which he responds to fans’ burning questions. Some gems: “what’s it like to be an Internet celebrity?” no vacation time YouTube competition is getting fierce lots of pressure because “the heat is something you don’t want to run away from” “why do you think people [...]

Selling a Twitter account: how much are my friends worth?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last weekend Andrew Baron put his Twitter account (and its 1600 followers) for sale on eBay. Account sales happens all the time in World of Warcraft. Selling customer lists is semi-standard practice among headhunters, and last year a Top 100 Digger attempted to sell his account. But Andrew’s Twitter account sale is stirring up a [...]

Wear your Twitter stats

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Aram Bartholl, the man who knows no boundaries, is organizing a “group-performance/conference-intervention” for the upcoming re:publica conference in Berlin called “Follow Me!”: folks will be swapping buttons w/ their Twitter avatars on it — real-world data visualization of who you’re “following” at the conference. Bartholl’s previously made IRL-vs.-internets news with real-world Google map markers and [...]