Category Archives: Geekery

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Local tweets for local people

Posted on 27/01/2010 by Pete

The future is local it seems. Twitter has now enabled local search for trending topics including countries and cities. Although if we’re to believe Alexa.com they’re missing out India, Germany and Japan. Not sure if it’s working out cities using … Continue reading →

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Genius christmas twitter campaign

Posted on 17/12/2009 by Pete

Came across this on twitter this morning: http://charity.further.co.uk/ By tweeting: Tweeting this message gets 10p donated to The Children’s Society charity http://bit.ly/4PcaKP #furthercharity your profile picture then appears on the page and the Christmas tree totalizer counts up the donations. … Continue reading →

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The power of a tweet…(but annoyingly I’m the only one that will ever know)

Posted on 20/07/2009 by Pete

An interesting thing happened to me a few evenings ago. I was at one of the iTunes festival gigs in the roundhouse, which featured the eclectic line-up of Mumford and Sons (yawn), the Temper Trap (not bad) and Stephen Fry … Continue reading →

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