I got to 500 followers on Twitter fairly honestly.  Some follow everyone under the sun in the hopes they'll reciprocate.  In fact, there are even lists of people on Twitter who automatically follow back everyone, so if you follow 500 of those guys you'll hit 500 followers pretty quick.  I

Now that I've been an active member of the Twittersphere for a half year, there's one thing that still somewhat confuses me.  If it's confusing me, it's likely confusing others.  I'm referring to the value of hashtags in tweets. When I tweet from Toronto Marlies games, I try to end

Oprah has entered the Twittersphere.  It's not quite Neil Armstrong taking a step on the moon, but it'll do for a Saturday morning in April.  Here's Oprah's first tweet. HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .Ho hum.... I'm not following Oprah on Twitter, but

Oprah Winfrey now controls http://twitter.com/oprah and tomorrow, during her show, she'll make her first tweet. The ProHundreds of thousands of Oprah worshippers will learn about Twitter.  The soccer mom contingent will be gobbling up Twitter accounts and following their fearless leader in droves at about this time

When I got into Twitter, I all but abandoned my Facebook account.  In fact, my Facebook status message read "Follow me on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/torontomike." A member of my slo-pitch team asked me earlier today about updating her Facebook status messages via Twitter.  I always knew how to

The buzz this morning is that Google is in talks to buy Twitter.  Of course, it depends who you ask. Google Inc. may be in talks to buy Internet start-up Twitter, the free micro-blogging service that allows people to send short text messages to a network of friends, the TechCrunch

I follow THE_REAL_SHAQ on Twitter.  He's one of the few celebrities I follow and I only follow him because of his fun Tweets.  You can tell he loves Twitter. I often see Shaq giving away tickets to his games via Twitter.  Here's the Tweet from Shaquille O'Neal moments

If you tweet and / or follow people of Twitter, you're likely not doing it at twitter.com.  Few power users ever see their own Twitter backgrounds because it's far more convenient to tweet and follow people on Twitter via 3rd party apps. I've tried three such methods: Twhirl, TweetDeck and

Awwwww, Jason from Get Your OJ Dot Com wrote me a song! Sing this one to the tune of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack.  Actually, upon further review, the "(one time, one time)" suggests you should sing this to The Fugees cover "Killing Me Softly”. tweeting

Now that Twitter has all these eyeballs, how are they going to make money?  One way is by introducing premium accounts. Williams stressed that free accounts will still be available to all  users, and that only those wanting more services would pay.   Premium  accounts will come in four tiers: Sparrow,