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The 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010

Interesting list of the 10 most powerful tweets of 2010 by Twitter. I like the simplicity of the design. How refreshing to just read a page as if it was a magazine, no sidebar, no “Subscribe to our newsletter/rss/whatever-bullshit”. Content. That’s all.

December 14, 2010 |, | Leave a comment

Twitter Engineering Blog

On the Twitter Engineering Blog, Ben made a visual representation of their development work: As a fun way to kick things off, I ran Code Swarm over a few essential production apps. Icons represent developers, and particles represent files added or modified. It doesn’t cover prototypes or contributions to open source, so it isn’t exactly scientific, but [...]

February 11, 2010 |, | Leave a comment

WordPress to Twitter Test (and mini-guide)

This is actually a blog post to test my WordPress -> Twitter setup, so I might as well explain why I attempt here, as a sort of mini-guide for those who want to do the same. What I want is to post a tweet each time I add a new blog post on this blog. [...]

February 3, 2010 |, | Leave a comment

Twitter’s Alex Payne’s desk hack

Apple recently profiled Twitter. You don’t learn a thing about Twitter or Apple in that cute video, but you get a good look at Twitter’s offices. In one shot, I noticed that Alex Payne, the lead developper, seems to have a modified desk so he can work in a standing position. I emailed him about [...]

May 1, 2009 |, , | Comments (9)

Daily Conversations

Hier j’ai lu cet article de Maureen Dowd du NY Times dans lequel Biz Stone, co-fondateur de Twitter, fait du mieux pour répondre intelligement aux questions stupides de la journaliste. L’article m’a frustré, mais j’étais incapable de formuler une réponse. Heureusement, d’autre l’ont fait, comme l’excellent Jason Kottke dans son article In defense of Twitter. [...]

April 23, 2009 |, | Leave a comment

Twitter + Tumblr = Love

Wow! Tumblr did a great job at integrating twitter in their interface. Now I can delete the best twitter client I could find but that I still don’t like to use. Woohoo!

March 20, 2009 |, | Leave a comment