Twitter search gets a little more powerful
Now Twitter digs into shortened URLs for your search terms.
Now Twitter digs into shortened URLs for your search terms.
Pouting pinup models are no way to promote a professional-grade application.
Setting aside my bias (like I could actually do that), I think Alex rocked this talk – and the audience did too. Check out the Twitter stream.
Here are my notes on how Alex uses social media to cope (as opposed to coping with the stress of social media!):
Updated: Thanks to Mitch Cohen for this comment pointing to a one-click bookmarklet – even easier!
Blackbird Pie (kind of a gruesome name, if you’ve grown attached to the Twitter icon) is a new Twitter service that lets you post individual tweets to your blog or web site – keeping that good ol’ Twitter formatting intact, while picking up elements of your site’s design (such as the typeface) as well.
Now, because of certain style overrides we have on SocialSignal.com, the result isn’t quite as picturesque as we might like:
Finally! A tool for blogging tweets about the new tool for blogging tweets! http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/less than a minute ago via TweetDeckRob Cottingham
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There’s a certain amount of overlap and such. But it’s still pretty sweet, especially since our workflow used to be:
With Blackbird Pie, the workflow is:
So much easier. And now the text is selectable by others – not a minor issue from an SEO standpoint, either. And it preserves hyperlinks to the original tweet, the Twitter client and the originating Twitter profile.
I like that for a number of reasons, not the least of which is making it easy for people to see the larger context of a tweet: a conversation, for instance, or the user’s Twitter stream. And if you’re trying to blog about a longer Twitter conversation, citing several tweets, this could save you a whole lot of time.
There are plenty of caveats – among other things, it doesn’t work on Tumblr yet, and I keep having to fight the urge to call it “Blackberry Pie” – but it’s a handy tool to have.