Archive for the 'Twitter' Category
Joining Mars Phoenix on Twitter is Cassini from the moons of Saturn. Here’s the first tweet.
“Launched in 1997 on a 2.2 billion mile journey to this jewel of the solar system. Arrived at Saturn July 2004. Now in 76th orbit of planet. 03:03 PM July 11, 2008 from web”
Here’s where <link>
Mars Phoenix tweeted:
“Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!”
http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619
MarsPhoenix Twitter showed me this great shot from Mars orbiter <link>
Follow the Mars lander here http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix or click RSS at the bottom and load it into your feed reader.
Currently there are 10,614 followers.
Updated, 13 June 2008: 20,000 followers.
Updated, 20 June 2008: water found and 24,399 followers
Readers will know that I’ve been writing about the price of oil (and food) but I’m at risk of turning my little corner of t’internet into “The Displaced Oil Barrel” so this is the last post on the subject for a while (unless something interesting happens). It’s a collection of coverage.
#1 John Maulin writes a [...]
Here’s Steve Rubel’s post on the future of Twitter <link>. I’m a Twitter fan and, while my initial ardour may have cooled, I think it has a future. But the words that stood out for me in this post were these…
“The truth is that standing out in the blogosphere has never been harder for those [...]
Wired reports that someone has “popped the question” on Twitter <link>.
“A San Francisco web designer used Twitter to pop the question Thursday, asking his co-worker to marry him in what looks like might be the microblogging service’s first-ever second marriage proposal.
Max Kiesler’s sweet tweet at 3:13 a.m. Thursday: “To @emilychang - After fifteen years [...]
I raged about Forkd. I raved about ffffound!. Now I’m presenting, without comment, the t-shirt social network - Rumplo <link>. You decide.
I like this one.
And then explored and found this site <link>.
Found Rumplo through badbanana, who found it through twitter. Thanks all.
One whole week without access to t’Internet. It’s been tough. WAP is no replacement. So what was the first thing I did when I got back online?
Check Fantasy Football table - top of the work league - all good. Even opened up a small gap on Andy in second.
Twitter! My favourite online app.
NO!!!
Twitter is down. All I get is [...]
That well-known early adopter, Santa Claus, (flying sled towed by reindeer!) has joined in on Twitter. Follow his preparations and journey across the planet here <link>.









