When we launched the Digg Store at http://shop.digg.com, we saw the biggest spike in traffic when the founder, Kevin Rose, twittered it.
Darrin Keller > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:17:24 -0600 > Subject: Re: [UPHPU] UPHPU on Twitter > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Whats twitter? > > > Really? :) Weird, it seems like it's everywhere. > > Anyway, Twitter is a "micro-blog" site that I have really gotten to > enjoy/use. You can find other people/groups w/similar interests and > "follow" them to get updates on said interests. Others use it as a > daily step-by-step [140 character] micro-update [blog] tool so let > people know what's going on. > > I was first introduced to Twitter at the MySQL conference about a year > ago, then again at the PhpTech conference [also about a year ago]. At > the conference[s], attendees would "tweet" [twitter-lingo for posting] > the conference sessions irt, and then coordinate "tweet-ups" > [get-togethers] during the evening. > > Anyway, I think that is a fair intro, though I may have convoluted it > a bit. :) Put simpler, Twitter asks, "What are you doing?" And it > might just be best for you to check it out. > > A working example of my twitter: http://twitter.com/thinbegin and of > the uphpu page [though just started]: http:twitter.com/uphpu > > Or just plain http://twitter.com and view their FAQ and whatnots. > > :) > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
