[UPHPU] UPHPU on Twitter

[Darrin Keller]

When we launched the Digg Store at http://shop.digg.com, we saw the biggest spike in traffic when the founder, Kevin Rose, twittered it.

Darrin Keller



> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:17:24 -0600
> Subject: Re: [UPHPU] UPHPU on Twitter
> From: thinbegin at gmail.com
> To: uphpu at uphpu.org
> 
> > Whats twitter?
> 
> 
> Really? :) Weird, it seems like it's everywhere.
> 
> Anyway, Twitter is a "micro-blog" site that I have really gotten to
> enjoy/use. You can find other people/groups w/similar interests and
> "follow" them to get updates on said interests. Others use it as a
> daily step-by-step [140 character] micro-update [blog] tool so let
> people know what's going on.
> 
> I was first introduced to Twitter at the MySQL conference about a year
> ago, then again at the PhpTech conference [also about a year ago]. At
> the conference[s], attendees would "tweet" [twitter-lingo for posting]
> the conference sessions irt, and then coordinate "tweet-ups"
> [get-togethers] during the evening.
> 
> Anyway, I think that is a fair intro, though I may have convoluted it
> a bit. :) Put simpler, Twitter asks, "What are you doing?" And it
> might just be best for you to check it out.
> 
> A working example of my twitter: http://twitter.com/thinbegin and of
> the uphpu page [though just started]: http:twitter.com/uphpu
> 
> Or just plain http://twitter.com and view their FAQ and whatnots.
> 
> :)
> 
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