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There’s barely any damage done now

Jonathan Frei — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:27:42 +0000

Jonathan Frei — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:04:21 +0000

This cheat sheet by Corey Smith can help you discover which social network is right for you. “I’m eating bacon,” simply states why I prefer Twitter to the alternatives.

The Rise of Twitter Bots

Jonathan Frei — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:12:10 +0000

The New Yorker has an interesting look at the robotic side of Twitter and the challenges the service will face as it becomes a bigger business.

As a service, Twitter’s greatest strength is that its users have total control over whom they follow and what they see. As a business, Twitter’s greatest opportunity is in violating that control with advertisements.

The @GSElevator gift guide

Jonathan Frei — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:01:46 +0000

This clever holiday gift guide is filled with all the stuff I’d buy myself if I had the money to afford more expensive taste. There are no gift suggestions in this guide for my wife. However, the writer has a good reason for his omission, which he expressed like this:

My apologies, there are no gift ideas for women in here. If you don’t know what to buy a woman for Christmas, you’re an idiot.

@GSElevator, who authored this post, is behind what is very possibly my favorite non-personal Twitter account, mostly because of his quips like this and seasonal jokes like this.

Analog social networks

Jonathan Frei — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:33:00 +0000

I guess social networks have already been around for a while.

via vintage social networking | Wrong Hands

Jonathan Frei — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:11:23 +0000

Paris is the Paris of things that other things are the thing of.

— Dan Wineman (@dwineman) January 6, 2009

Superbowl Twitter mentions visualized on Hotspots.io

Jonathan Frei — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:06 +0000

Superbowl Twitter mentions visualized on Hotspots.io

Hotspot.io gathered twitter mentions of Superbowl ads and presented them in a beautiful graph.