Twitterfall #iranelection

#iranelection, is amazing, breathtaking, not to be missed. Feed @.5 sec can't keep up. Cached tweets are at 700 in 4 minutes.

"change yr Twitter settings to show GMT +03:30 Tehran as your timezone & change home city to Tehran; confuse Iranian censors"

"Don't RT any more request to change location and time zones to #tehran It may confuse the protesters as well , enough already STOP !"

FreePersians Proxy list here: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LET INFO OUT OF IRAN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - IN FARSI #IranElection #iran99 #gr88 #tehran HAIL XENU! RT!

"Don't RT proxy lists!"

Ed. comment--this is one disorganized, messy revolution.

Leveraging Twitter and Other Social Media

Twitter is still the hot topic among association social media followers. The discussion is moving beyond "Is it good for anything?" to discussion of how to use it. I've been a Twitter user for a couple of weeks now. My Twitter feed updates to this blog and to several other sites. I have a couple of followers. Add Tweeting to my obligations.

I came across a really nice presentation by Shaun Dakin entitled Issue Advocacy Using Social and Traditional Media - from Twitter to MSNBC in 24 Hours that I recommend. He talks about how he used Twitter in concert with other social media to establish his own authority on a topic, create buzz, and build a network around his issue.

Upshot is, you can use Twitter in combination with other social media to flood the search hive-mind for your 15 minutes. But it is hard work.. Remember the good old days when all you had to do was load a page with invisible keywords to score a page 1 search return. :<)

Kidding aside, Shaun has some good, practical advice here along with other case studies of Twitter use by companies and organizations. He also provides info on some useful tools like Twitter search and Tweetdeck and others. I won't list them all. If you are interested in how your assocaiation can use Twitter in combination with social and other media, Shaun's presentation is worth your time.

Association Twitter

Twitter is a hot topic on the ASAE Listservs. Everyone is trying to figure out how to use it. So far, it seems pretty lame if it isn't tied to a real time event.

That may change.

I regularly ask my 20-year-old son about social media. His group has yet to embrace Twitter. They are still Facebook, all the time. The Facebook chat function is powerful and familiar. In a few years, they will all have 3G phones and Twitter may be the portal for updating their blogs, Facebook, etc.

Always the explorer, I've put a Twitter feed on this blog. It simultaneously updates my Facebook status.

Guess what? Now I need 2 Twitter accounts (as if I need 1). Apparently, lots of other people need more than one Twitter account. Here's a great article on the Twitterrati blog about tools to deal with this problem. By tomorrow, I'll be a SplitTweet user.