Google has a new way to surf the stream of conciousness internet hive mind. I have wondered if google was responding to the need for real time search that twitter has faltered on. Would google buy twitter? Or just tap the revenue/ad stream of all social networking sites by building a search engine?   more »

Tweeters need to know that the tweople you recommend they follow actually converse like real, live humans. Celebrities usually do not respond, often they have assistants do their tweeting when they do reply. So why follow them? And why follow spam/adbots who just regurgitate tweets automatcally? Only recommend following tweople who actually reply to your tweets. They are right there on your replies list. Gather them around the #tweetablethursday hashtag, just list them and include the tag. Let's have a twitter quality revolution!!!   more »