Comments on: Doug Haslam Chats Up Twitter and More http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/03/20/doug-haslam-chats-twitter/ Musings and analysis on marketing, buzz and communications. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wikinomics Blogroll - March 23 2008 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/03/20/doug-haslam-chats-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-40185 Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wikinomics Blogroll - March 23 2008 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:24:05 +0000 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/blog/2008/03/20/doug-haslam-chats-twitter/#comment-40185 [...] Buzz Bin is always full of interesting posts. I really enjoyed this little interview with Doug Haslam - who recently discovered the Technorati rating of his Twitter stream is ahead of his blog - as [...] [...] Buzz Bin is always full of interesting posts. I really enjoyed this little interview with Doug Haslam – who recently discovered the Technorati rating of his Twitter stream is ahead of his blog – as [...]

]]> By: Tim Allik http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/03/20/doug-haslam-chats-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-39929 Tim Allik Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:49:05 +0000 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/blog/2008/03/20/doug-haslam-chats-twitter/#comment-39929 Doug is our celebrity Twitterer at Topaz and we're extremely proud of his work in social media (not to mention amused by his quirky, off-beat sense of humor). I'd only take issue with one of his observations here, the claim that Twitter is "ephemeral." As we all know the word ephemeral comes from the Greek word "ephÄ“meros" meaning "lasting a day, daily." Just kidding - we all didn't know that, but now we do. The unephemeral thing about Twitter is that Tweets have a tendency to get picked up by search engines and by Twitter scrapers. Remember that silly old 140-character rambling you managed to drunkedly bang out at 4 a.m. about X or Y? It will live on in immortality for anyone with a search engine to find and read. And have a chuckle. Either with you, or at your expense. Doug is our celebrity Twitterer at Topaz and we’re extremely proud of his work in social media (not to mention amused by his quirky, off-beat sense of humor). I’d only take issue with one of his observations here, the claim that Twitter is “ephemeral.”

As we all know the word ephemeral comes from the Greek word “ephÄ“meros” meaning “lasting a day, daily.” Just kidding – we all didn’t know that, but now we do.

The unephemeral thing about Twitter is that Tweets have a tendency to get picked up by search engines and by Twitter scrapers. Remember that silly old 140-character rambling you managed to drunkedly bang out at 4 a.m. about X or Y? It will live on in immortality for anyone with a search engine to find and read. And have a chuckle. Either with you, or at your expense.

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