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I’ve decided to start collecting twitter feeds.

Feeds that have something interesting about them - linguistically or visually.

I’m going to create a page on this website to display them at some point. But for now, here are the first artifacts to be added to the collection:

@towerbridge
“I am opening for the SB Hydrogen, which is passing downstream.”

@shippingcast
“Shnn, Rckl, Mln SW bckg S or SE 5 2 7, phaps gale 8 l8r. Ruf or v.ruff. Shwrs then rain. Gd, bec. mod or pr”

@fireland
“The video poker machines burble. The casino carpet blurs into a 3D dolphin. The waitress’ lipstick, Tokyo Gutter, is smeared across my neck.”

@andy_house
“electricity meter reading: 31550 KWH”

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More here.

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Frustratingly, I can’t see a way to embed it into this post…

jenny-bee.net/2008/04/22/buzzdaq/

Hi Jenny

Thanks for looking at our Buzzdaq, it was a great idea to add an embed code. If you take a look now, you’ll notice we’ve added one one on there now!

jenny-bee.net/2008/04/22/buzzdaq/#comment-131

Nice one Refreshed Media.

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This is quite PR-y but a nice idea none-the-less.

Refreshed Media unveil their latest digital breakthrough called Buzzdaq, which … allows visitors to see, at a glance the most mentioned words from hundreds of specially selected blog and news articles.

All feeds are taken from the blogs or news items of sites relevant to the internet community… These are drawn from an RSS feed and displayed through the Buzzdaq application which can then be bookmarked to share with others.

From socialmediaportal.com

Frustratingly, I can’t see a way to embed it into this post, but you can sample the delights of Buzzdaq on the Internet World website.

I’m wondering whether something like this could be used to measure the buzz around specific conferences (related post: I want it ALL (in one place)!).

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Stowe Boyd recently invited startups to ‘Twitpitch’ him in order to arrange to meet with him at a conference…

1. All companies who would like to have a meeting with me, need to send me a Twittered description of the product. Yes, please Twitter it to me at www.twitter.com/stoweboyd. Yes, one tweet, 140 characters less the eleven used for “@stoweboyd “.
2. Optionally, send a supporting twitpitch with one link, and no other text. Could be to anything: website, video, press release, Rick Astley, etc.
3. Then, twitter me one or more suggested times/place to meet at the event, using the times on the calendar, and a location in the conference building I won’t have time to visit your nearby hotel or offices.

Nice. If you’ve got a brilliant idea it really should be communicable in 140 characters. And I’m all for using words sparingly and in a considered fashion. Any application that encourages that gets my vote.

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