June 2010
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The shorturl squeeze and loosening of the 140-belt
t.co was announced today and with that the rapid growth of the shorturl the bitly-bubble has burst. Twitter is ‘asserting control’ over its link dominion. Every link, repeat “every link’ will now be wrapped in a t.co link wrapper that will redirect the user to the original link posted and since t.co links are of a predictable size the 140-character computation will be...
Jun 9th
The death of the hashtag! At #tanhf the hashtag...
At #tanhf the hashtag was diagnosed with ‘annotanitis’ a terminal illness, I’d give it 3 months said the tweet-doctor… The storied hashtag that grew to prominence in a few short years has now been diagnosed with annotanitis. This is a fatal illness that grows insiduously within the system. The first signs of annotatis are ‘attributii’ these are parasites...
Jun 2nd