Tag: Twitter
The Most Important Twitter Rule of 2011
Except for the eight days when I had a serious case of Social Media Burnout, I've been on Twitter every day since March of 2009. There are some very interesting observations I've made recently. If you have been on Twitter a long time too, I know you will relate to what I'm going to describe.
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Twitter Paper Toy: For The Seriously Addicted Tweeps
So what does it mean to be addicted to Twitter? That's a question many people have tried to answer. The scale has many ratings and what seems like perfectly normal behavior for some is considered beyond addiction to others. The fine line between these camps would be much too hard to explain, so I ...
Now We Can All Tweet At The Great Wall Of Touch!
About a year ago, I wrote an article about the Intel Touch Screen Wall at the CES which everyone, at the time, thought was the 8th wonder of the world. But, as it turns out, this year there is one better. Not only does it seem that the future is harboring some pretty cool lobby technology for us, ...
TwitnicTable: The All Knowing Twitter Table Surface!
The knowledge that is harbored by Google is probably the worlds most complete, but that doesn't mean it is the all knowing pool of answers. Humans still battle questions everyday, and it can sometimes be hard to find the exact answer you need if your question is complex and multifaceted.
The onl ...
Gift A Stranger: Hi Tech Random Acts of Kindness
Everyone loves to do and receive random acts of kindness, right? At least most people I know do. I've always been a fan of this, and I try to do things in my daily life to bring that extra sunshine to others. For example, it's always fun to pay for the car behind me at the tollbooth on Georgia 40 ...
Does My Twitter Page Make Me Look Fat?
One of the most fun aspects of Twitter is reading all the funny rhetorical questions we see floating around the Twitterverse. Somehow many of us have found a way to incorporate Twitter into our lives so much so that we can relate it to just about everything.
Today after getting dressed, I looked ...
A Tribute To Our Bit Rebels Readers
Here we are, in the month of January, and once again we are solidifying our goals for the next twelve months. Bit Rebels launched in the summer of 2009, and as we reflect over the past year and a half, and really examine the statistics, suddenly something is glaringly obvious that we need to address ...
The Oldest Known Facebook User and Geek Alive
I love little old ladies, and I think this is the cutest story ever. Lillian Lowe has two big reasons to celebrate. She is about to turn 104 years old and she has just been crowned the oldest Facebook user in the world.
The reason she is known as a cyber-granny, also known as Supergran to her f ...
A Geek’s Tombstone: Be Honored As A Geek Even After You Die
Yesterday Richard wrote an article about a service called Webwill that, after you die, will allow you to send a goodbye message to all your friends on Facebook, turn your Twitter account over to a trusted friend and send emails to inform people of your death.
I figured while we are on the topic o ...
How To: Dress Like Mark Zuckerberg
Why is it that everyone loves to poke fun at Time's 2010 Person of the Year, Mark Zuckerberg? I know he's taken a lot of heat for the privacy issues on Facebook, but my opinion on that is a little different than a lot of people. I think that if we have something we don't want the whole world to se ...
My Webwill: Add A Last Status Update After You’re Dead!
Social networking has become such a huge aspect in everyone's life that we check it out frenetically throughout the day. It has become the only sure way to always know what your friends and loved ones are up to. It doesn't matter what time, what day or where your friends are, you will always know ...
Hiding Your Facebook Page Could Be A Bad Idea
The more time that goes by, the more I realize that we really do need a "WTF" category on Bit Rebels. Some people in the world are craaaaaaaaazy, and I just love writing about them. We've all heard stories about how people can get a little nuts when it comes to their offline and online lives colli ...
How To: Auto Feed Fresh Content To Your Twitter Feed!
I have many times been asked how we auto feed our @bitrebels Twitter account with fresh content every time something gets published, and how you could do the same thing. Well, the answer is, unfortunately, not as easy as I am sure you would like it to be. Over here at Bit Rebels we're actually utili ...
Skyfire: Content And Flash Browser For Your iPad And iPhone!
The Safari browser on the iPad and iPhone has a great number of features that enable you to quickly browse content on the Internet, but the lack of the notorious Flash feature is driving people nuts. The ability to watch Flash movies when browsing the Internet is increasing, yet Apple sticks to the ...
5 Lessons I’ve Learned From Social Media
It has been such a ride this past year, and as we look forward to the coming year, we always look back at what we learned from mistakes we made in the past, or what we learned in terms of new ideas that left a mark on us. Social media has been growing steadily over the past few years, and it was the ...