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The Creative Writing Twitter Community

Over the past couple of months I have been doing my best to regularly participate in creative writing groups across the web. I not only find it enjoyable to write in a fictional fashion, I also enjoy reading from the huge pool of short stories. Both Fiction Friday, by Write Anything, and #FridayFlash, by JM [...]

I Suppose The World Cup Really Is Twitter’s Kryptonite
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I Suppose The World Cup Really Is Twitter’s Kryptonite

Over the last couple of years social media has seen a tremendous boost. People who scoffed at it a year ago are embracing it today. As a result, you hear Twitter and Facebook routinely mentioned on television commercials and radio advertisements. With this increase in popularity Twitter has been going through some growing pains. Those [...]

The Stresses of being too Connected
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The Stresses of being too Connected

Have you ever had one of those days were you felt like something inside of you was just going to snap under stress? As I type this, I’m sitting in a room, alone, listening to soothing music on Slacker Radio. To go along with the music, I’ve got a CAO La Traviata burning in the [...]

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Hey, is that really you in there?

I’ve got to admit up front, when it comes to certain things, I am a gullible guy. This really shines when taking into account Twitter and Facebook. There is part of me that says, “That really is the cigar manufacturer I know, not some paid employee acting the part” The more time I spend on [...]

A Rant: Twitter and Facebook Annoyances
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A Rant: Twitter and Facebook Annoyances

It has been a good long time since I’ve done any real ranting. I don’t air dirty laundry on the internet, but I’m finding myself highly annoyed as of late from a few things I have been seeing. These things aren’t anything major, but they do tend to tug at my nerves. I won’t be [...]

Why aren’t you following me back on Twitter?
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Why aren’t you following me back on Twitter?

As Twitter becomes more and more prominent in the everyday lives of internet users, it becomes a more appealing venue for spammers. Being a bit of a twitter addict myself, I have seen a steady increase of junk follows. These junk follows, as I refer to them, are spam bots or people with an agenda [...]

Are you on Twitter?
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Are you on Twitter?

A little more than a year ago Jerry, from the Stogie Review, and mentioned to me that he was using this service called Twitter to keep up with friends and co-workers. He explained it in such a way that I viewed it as a sort of large chat room from my old AOL days. I [...]