As some of you might know, m’friend Roger Morris has joined that Web 2.0 band of authors what serialise their novels via Twitter. It’s true, getting a sentence or a fragment every hour – that’s how I am now scheduling my tweets – is not like sitting down and reading an extended section of the [...]
I get twitchy whenever I notice an article entitled ‘The Psychology of X’. More often than not, that phrase can be read ‘What I think about X’. So it is with twitchiness that read The Psychology of Twitter over at World of Psychology on PsychCentral.
What is Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. Via Wikipedia You’ll have [...]
I don’t need to tell you – O, fashion-conscious reader – about the raging memetic bushfire that is Twitter. (Though I’ll just mention that it is a service constantly asking ‘What are you doing?’) You can now see what I’m up to in the ‘What is Hocking up to?’ section on the left of the [...]