Wisdom Of Cows

Tweeting News: Today we learned of a million-dollar tweeting scheme, something about the Twitterati and about how to follow sports teams on Twitter.

And ranking by news articles… 37,000 or so articles mentioned Twitter, 690 on FriendFeed, 80-ish about Yammer, 44 Jaiku, 33 about Plurk, 11 dealing with Pownce, and none about Twoons (yet).

Text Description of today’s Twoon cartoon: Colorful cartoon drawing of a cow with brown droppings, with the headling ‘Mweet’ and tag lines ‘Don’t follow too close to this one!’ and ‘Wisdom of Cows’

Friends Eating Friends

Dante’s Twitter Circle – No Un-Follow

Drawing of a sea of people crawling in a bleak landscape, with one person saying to another “You’re in Dante’s Twitter Circle, where there is no un-follow, only follow.”

Tweeting News: A large book advance, said to be over $10,000, has been given for a upcoming book on tweets.  And, perhaps categorized under reputation management tools, BackTweets allows searching of cloaked & shortened urls used in tweets.  And a twitter hack from this week seems to have been small in scope and duration.

Twoon #8: Million Followers – Race Ya!

Drawing of a happy-ish man saying “So you think you can get to a million followers faster than me? Race ya!”.

Tweeting News - this week it was reported that Queen Elizabeth II has started tweeting, but the twitter username has not yet surfaced. And in Wichita, Kansas it has been reported that live-tweeting has been allowed in a courtroom trial in federal court.  Finally, at least one social networking site, Facebook, has been rumored to copy the style of microblogging as the popularity of tweeting continues to skyrocket.