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By: Jason Weill Web Productions » Blog Archive » What the Hell is Twitter?

Jason Weill Web Productions » Blog Archive » What the Hell is Twitter? — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:29:10 +0000

[...] The understated interface of Twitter makes the playing field surprisingly level. A few weeks ago, popular blogger Robert Scoble posted a public question to Presidential candidate John Edwards. Using Twitter, Edwards responded within minutes. The idea of text conversations between celebrities has been around since Carnegie Mellon’s infamous and now-defunct Forum 2000, where artificially intelligent SOMADs representing Ayn Rand, Pikachu, George W. Bush, Jesus Christ, and others collaborated to answer questions from the public. [...]

By: barbara

barbara — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:32:55 +0000

hi CC I’ve been listening to your podcasts at work trying to find a song i remembered from a while back and finally caught up to it today. but i can’t have it loud enough to actually hear who it is – i wanna buy the recording though, so if you can let me know? it’s on the “help me, help the biddies” episode of U turn Cafe, and the song’s lyrics (might be the title as well) go, “he’s a hell of a boy, but only half of a man”
ok? thank you CC

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:00:36 +0000

This after BusinessWeek blog post complaining that Edwards had gone "dark" on Twitter. Heh. Good to see it

By: Ioannus de Verani

Ioannus de Verani — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:28:13 +0000

I added Edwards as a friend on my twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/ioannusdeverani), and almost immediately, he befriended me. I asked him if it was a bot, or if he was just really fast, and he said, “FAST!”. I guess he is really into the twitter thing. Congratulations to him.

See more info on my post here: http://ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/update-john-edwards-on-twitter/

By: An Open Invitation to ALL 2008 Presidential Candidates

An Open Invitation to ALL 2008 Presidential Candidates — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:18:11 +0000

[...] I just watched what Senator Edwards did on Twitter and I’m still smiling from it. I was happy to see so many candidates announce their running via YouTube and such, but what’s next. Where do you take the campaign from here? How do you FULLY leverage the conversation and embrace the community? That’s what I want to talk about. [...]

By: Tao Takashi

Tao Takashi — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:07:35 +0000

I expect this to happen in 2020 in Germany
(ok, Angela Merkel has a video podcast but then again it’s not really a podcast in the sense of communicating with her)

But beside that a cool thing and hopefully I am wrong.

By: cori

cori — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:06:53 +0000

Given the tone of the twitters, and comparing it to John Edwards’s voice in his podcasts, I’ve come to believe he is writing those twitters.

And I think he’s at home today: http://twitter.com/johnedwards/statuses/7450881. It’s cool to see him respond so quickly from his dining room table, or wherever.