Comments on: Is the retweet dead? Using the ‘favourite tag’ http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2009/11/15/is-the-retweet-dead-using-the-favourite-tag/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danny Whatmough http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2009/11/15/is-the-retweet-dead-using-the-favourite-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Danny Whatmough Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:29:31 +0000 http://www.dannywhatmough.com/?p=412#comment-676 Thanks Phil - I guess my issue with a workaround like this is that it is just another step (one that I would probably not bother with too often). I really see the value of favouriting tweets, but it needs to be more seemlessly integrated imho. Thanks Phil – I guess my issue with a workaround like this is that it is just another step (one that I would probably not bother with too often). I really see the value of favouriting tweets, but it needs to be more seemlessly integrated imho.

]]> By: philsheard http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2009/11/15/is-the-retweet-dead-using-the-favourite-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-675 philsheard Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:29 +0000 http://www.dannywhatmough.com/?p=412#comment-675 You can track people's favourites as an RSS feed, which is a hack but as these thoughts tend to be less 'realtime' and more 'bookmark'y, reading people's favourites (say) once a week would be a valid way of keeping abreast of things. Here are mine, for example - <a href="http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss</a>. There's no button for it, but open a tweet stream in Firefox and click the RSS logo in the address bar to get access.<br><br>Also take a look at Favstar if you haven't yet - a bit like Tweetmeme for favourites. It also shows you people that favourite your tweets, so useful for network analysis.<br><br>Thx for posting You can track people's favourites as an RSS feed, which is a hack but as these thoughts tend to be less 'realtime' and more 'bookmark'y, reading people's favourites (say) once a week would be a valid way of keeping abreast of things. Here are mine, for example – http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss. There's no button for it, but open a tweet stream in Firefox and click the RSS logo in the address bar to get access.

Also take a look at Favstar if you haven't yet – a bit like Tweetmeme for favourites. It also shows you people that favourite your tweets, so useful for network analysis.

Thx for posting

]]> By: Danny Whatmough http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2009/11/15/is-the-retweet-dead-using-the-favourite-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Danny Whatmough Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:31 +0000 http://www.dannywhatmough.com/?p=412#comment-636 Thanks Phil - I guess my issue with a workaround like this is that it is just another step (one that I would probably not bother with too often). I really see the value of favouriting tweets, but it needs to be more seemlessly integrated imho. Thanks Phil – I guess my issue with a workaround like this is that it is just another step (one that I would probably not bother with too often). I really see the value of favouriting tweets, but it needs to be more seemlessly integrated imho.

]]> By: philsheard http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2009/11/15/is-the-retweet-dead-using-the-favourite-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-635 philsheard Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:13:29 +0000 http://www.dannywhatmough.com/?p=412#comment-635 You can track people's favourites as an RSS feed, which is a hack but as these thoughts tend to be less 'realtime' and more 'bookmark'y, reading people's favourites (say) once a week would be a valid way of keeping abreast of things. Here are mine, for example - <a href="http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss</a>. There's no button for it, but open a tweet stream in Firefox and click the RSS logo in the address bar to get access.<br><br>Also take a look at Favstar if you haven't yet - a bit like Tweetmeme for favourites. It also shows you people that favourite your tweets, so useful for network analysis.<br><br>Thx for posting You can track people's favourites as an RSS feed, which is a hack but as these thoughts tend to be less 'realtime' and more 'bookmark'y, reading people's favourites (say) once a week would be a valid way of keeping abreast of things. Here are mine, for example – http://twitter.com/favorites/1349651.rss. There's no button for it, but open a tweet stream in Firefox and click the RSS logo in the address bar to get access.

Also take a look at Favstar if you haven't yet – a bit like Tweetmeme for favourites. It also shows you people that favourite your tweets, so useful for network analysis.

Thx for posting

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