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I know that you’ll be stuck with that song in your head for the rest of the day. You’re welcome. Truly.

Happy Thursday. Much love, M xox

They start by discussing the Instagram integration which was launched yesterday along with SlideShare which means that these platforms will now be rendered on the righthand side of the Twitter application, without having to go off to another site, making it a seamless experience. This an area of focus that they will continue to grow.

Jason says that Twitter’s strength is that they have something for everybody – their next challenge is helping people to find relevant content more easily from the mass of content being produced. He then adds that he originally tried to persuade Biz to change Twitter’s name to Fleeting but this was never to be… rightly so!

Then comes the big announcement, Jason informs the audience that he’ll be leaving Twitter at the end of the month and staying on as an advisor. The move comes after Dick Costolo’s appointment as new CEO and given that he’s not moving to another role, I think it’s safe to assume that he had been asked to step down.

It’s clear that Jason is hugely proud of Twitter and the company that it’s become today, always staying true to it’s goals of remaining open and transparent, driving ambition with humility. The main message to have come out of the presentation was that Twitter have now built stability in their scaling and can work to continue the development of an amazing product and more great clients for use.

Apologies for being so slack at updating the blog of late, things have been crazy mental since going freelance and I’m more than aware that I’ve been neglectful. That’s all about to change, I promise – watch this space.

Now some of you may have seen that I’ve recently been working on pulling together some resources for designers. I recently created the World’s Biggest List of Design Resources…

Today I launched the World’s Biggest List of Influential Tweeters…

… and created this Twitter list to make your life just that little bit easier if you wanted to follow them.

If there’s anything else that you’d like to see that you’d find helpful, let me know and I’ll see what magic wands I can wave!

M xox

with twitter being a huge part of my life, i can’t help but pay particular interest when i notice new features. i was therefore particularly interested when i just logged in to find a shiny new box….. locations!

now as far as i’m aware, this isn’t something that’s particularly new, depending on the client that you use – but this will be a visual display of your location. much like foursquare, you’ll have to manually choose whether or not to show your location and remember to turn on and off where appropriate.

i don’t think i’ll be using locations yet…. the thing missing for me is that if i wish to show my location, this is displayed to the whole of the interwebs and not just my friends as i can currently do on the likes of foursquare. i’d love to get your thoughts on the latest addition though!

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as always, i’d love your input in the comments below and thanks to those who have already helped with the making of this on twitter

love you all xox

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i wonder if there are any help groups that exist…. hmmm….

happy thursday

xox

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now go tweet… and don’t forget me…. twitter.com/melkirk

peace out xox

of course this is the dream for many of the founders – big dollar bills and a life of comfort with the potential of your app being rolled out to the mass market for whom you might not have been able to reach. however, I often wonder how that makes those founders feel. surely there has to be something a little bit sad about letting control of your baby, the project over which you’ve poured so many hours of work into and sleepless nights?

what about those who are kept on as part of the acquisition? to deal with the  shift in culture when you’re acquired by a huge company such as google or facebook can’t be easy. where changing things on the fly and staying nimble might be easy to do when you’re a tiny startup – this isn’t as easy when you have a big boat to turn.

i’m definitely one of the grumblers, that’s for sure. i love twitter as it is. i know that the ev and the good guys there need to make money from the service but i’d be sad to see it end it’s startup journey. heck, i joined back in 2006 when you could almost hear the tumbleweed. maybe that’s just me though… after all, you’re talking to the girl that cringes every time she hears it mentioned on radio one, feeling it seep away from what was cool with the tech crowd to part of the mainstream web activity of many teenieboppers.

my social media cap tells me it’s a good thing – it’s increased reach and mass appeal can only be good for brands, but the early adopter in me sheds a little tear. no matter what happens to twitter, if it enables me to stay connected to as many people as i currently am and the failwhale (god bless his soul) only makes the occassional appearance, i’ll continue to love it. i can’t help it, it’s almost part of me. i wish ev and the team the best for whatever decisions are having to be made at the moment.

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you can see the facebook event here or alternatively click you’re coming on upcoming.

here are the details of the venue…

bocabar @paintworks
bath road
brislington
bristol
bs4 3eh

here are the directions from bristol temple meads station…
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i’d be happier than something really happy if you could make it. keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

m x

** Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies)
** Kevin Rose (kevinrose)
** Alex Albrecht (alexalbrecht)
** Jeff Cannata (jeffcannata)
** Dan Trachtenberg (dannytrs)
** Michael Arrington (techcrunch)
** Paul Boag (boagworld)
** Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman)
** Brightkite (brightkite)
** Paul Lomax (paullomax)
** James Whatley (whatleydude)
** Ryan Carson (ryancarson)
** London Events (londonevents)
** eChuckles (echuckles)

interesting that the top results kind of reflected those of the most popular twitter users published here, which makes sense if you think about it. it did get me to thinking about people that you should be following in different fields depending on your interests. then there’s the whole issue of wanting to follow someone because you respect their work even though they may send more personal tweets that tweets with gems of knowledge.

so the conclusion that i came to is that i’m going to get a study squat on and put together a list of twitterati that you need to be following under each categories. the categories that i have so far are industry, design, development, entrepreneurs and social media. please leave a comment below if there’s someone you’d like to be considered for the list or other categories you’d be interested in seeing. this is for you after all!



p.s. thanks to all you lovely folks that said me, but let’s face it you’re going to be biased as you were following me in the first place. i still love you more for it though, you’re the best!!