Tag: twitter

Of course Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore is using an Android smartphone

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So Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore tweeted with an Android device, to talk about a Windows Phone? Good. Yes there’s an argument that any public facing executive needs to be 100% on message, but I think it’s far more important that the top-level execs who are imparting the vision and direction on their platform have real world experience of the competing platforms. I would hope that Belfiore is a ‘power’ user on Android, iOS, and BlackBerry 10 (when it arrives) as well as Windows Phone.

I can’t see Vine video working online if it follows the Seesmic interaction model

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Vine, an application that allows you to post a six second video snipept online, is now owned by Twitter and looks ready to launch. But I come back to ‘the Seesmic question’ and have to ask who is it for and what problem does it solve? Almost any technology can find fans and a small social group who will champion it, but the tech fails to break out into a large-scale consumer success. What does Vine do differently? Peter Kafka, on All Things D: Why would you want to download Vine? Because it’s supposed to be a fun tool for

Can I trust Ev William’s new idea for a Twitter metric after the last month?

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When I read about Ev Williams talking about changing Twitter’s primary stat from ‘Followers’ to ‘Retweets’ or something more nebulous like ‘how many people saw your Tweet’, my issue is that the trust I had in Twitter’s management team to get it right for the community has been seriously damaged over issues like the degraded API and mobile clients. I’m no longer thinking ‘that sounds like a good idea’, I’m thinking ‘how will this screw up my Twitter experience?’