Tracking Twitter reponses to Obama’s Town Hall in China
Earilier today Barack Obama had one of his famous ‘Town Hall Meetings’ in Shanghai, where he took questions from Chinese youth in attendance and from questions posed on the internet. Naturally, there were some interesting responses to all this on Twitter. As a sort of exercise in ‘Twitter coverage,’ I tried experimenting with Chris’ TwitBlog [...]
How to Build a Twitter-Powered Community Events Calendar
Recently I stumbled upon a pretty amazing service called TwitterCal. Basically what it allows you to do is add an event to your Google Calendar via Twitter using the following direct message format:
direct message to gcal:
Secret Stone Cutters Meeting at Hobgoblin Shibuya, on Monday, June 25, at 9am http://tinyurl.com/cqj5jg
After sending this message, your event [...]
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