Posts Tagged "twitter"

The Twitter Bot That’s Really Good at Winning Contests

“Another very large percentage of the things I won were tickets to events. I did manage to go to an event that I won tickets to, but the majority of them were for concerts and events in other countries that I obviously couldn’t go to […] I won a lot of cool stuff too though, and getting mysterious things in my mailbox each day was pretty fun.”

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Augur, Version 2.0 – Coming Soon

To top things off, I decided to make the app free. I sold a small amount, but honestly – I started to wonder whether I really wanted to charge or not for the app. I’ve spent a lot of time on it, but ultimately I decided that I’d rather have more people see it and use it. Obscurity being the bigger challenge, right?

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On Profile Pictures and Yak Shaving

Leaving this here, as a teaser for a future project. I’m currently messing around a little bit with Node, and learning how to create a Twitter bot. Hopefully I’ll have something to show in the near future. For now though, I’ll just leave this here.

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Ted Mikulski: Tweets in Real Life

Though it’s a brief set of images, these Tweets in Real Life are a fun play on technology, curated by Ted Mikulski. Some seemed like they were easy to set up, others seemingly much tougher. I’d love to see more of these types of juxtapositions. I’m reminded a lot of my project for 20×2, where I presented a video combining…

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Luke, I Am Your… Mother

I woke up this morning to find a comment left on blog: it was from MJ Kim, who was the mother in one of the Flickr photos I used in my 20×2 presentation. What a random and lovely surprise! Turns out, she knows some of the 20×2 folks to boot. How random is that? In case you missed the Chicago…

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What If Twitter Came to Life?

Twitter users @poeks and @sween asked some of their friends to film their favorite tweets. Each snippet is a glimpse of someone’s actual Twitter post, presented in a variety of manners: acted out literally, hand puppets, you name it. Brilliant little project, and I had a few genuine LOLs. Twitter: The Criterion Collection. My favorites are at 2:01 and 6:06….

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