Twitter Matters #2: Memetic Logos
October 9th, 2008 — Michael G. CayleyI like this little project.
Frank Tentler is scanning for the word “wish” in twitter streams and then he retweets the wish from the http://twitter.com/twishes profile.
This is Frank Tentlers memetic logo! It is a great little way to position Frank at the intersection of media, aspirations, communications/technology, etc.
I wish I had the code for a little widget that would display the latest tweets from twishes. I would embed it in this post and a few other places.
Update! Ask & you shall receive … Thanks Frank!
UPDATE: Another good example from Jacquelyn Cyr.
UPDATE 2 @ Nov.3, 2008 -
I have since come to think of some of the work that conferences are doing to assert their identities along these same lines.
Many now ask Twitterers at the conference to tag all of their related tweets consistently so that they can be viewed via Twitter Search and Twemes as one discussion thread. #Mesh was the first that I noticed and SoCap08 retweeted all related tweets during the conference.
It looks like defrag08 is doing the retweet thing too.
Update 4@ Nov.17, 2008: Extending Mad Men into Twitter. Make sure that you follow the links in Paul’s post.
UPDATE 3@ Nov.4, 2008:
I have turned my evolving reflections about twitter into a series of posts. Catch the other thoughts:
Why Twitter Matters #1: Follow me, Follow You on Twitter
Why Twitter Matters #3: Escalopter
Why Twitter Matters #4: social capital discussion evolving
Comment, Kim Patrick Kobza, CEO, Neighborhood America: cognitive outliers, real time group cognition
Why Twitter Matters #5: Twitter and Social Capital
Why Twitter Matters #6: Twitter Love Song
UPDATE@Nov.4, 2008 - an overview of StockTwits from Stowe Boyd.
UPDATE@Dec.1, 2008 - Tim O’Reilly “Why I Love Twitter”
November 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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November 17th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I wonder if you’ll now get superfluous “wish” tweets that just throw the word in there to get in your stream. It’s nice to see what you’ve done. Looking at the wishes is interesting.
I also love learning you can create a twitterfeed like you did and will have to think of how best to apply that technology to help others. Thank so much for that.
Best…wishes,
Roseann Higgins