According to a Nielsen Online survey, Twitter grew a whopping 1,382% from February 2008 to February 2009, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month of February 2009.
Since joining Twitter back in January 2008, I had been a lukewarm user at best. Recently, I picked up the Twitter bug again and started following more people, especially local tweeters, and actively engaging in this micro blogging community. Well, I guess I’m making up for lost time.
In less than a month, I made many new friends on Twitter, shared and visited many interesting websites via links on tweets, and were surprise to find some of my tweets and replies being featured on some tweeters’ blogs. Even better, I have reason to believe these exchanges helped contribute to an increased in this blog’s traffic of 43.3% during this short time!
If you are still wondering what this Twitter craze is all about, here’s a video explanation of Twitter in plain English, not in geek speak. Additionally, make sure you equip yourself with some Twitter Terminology in order to stay on top of all the jargon and lingo.
This news article appeared in the local newspaper today, the headline says it all, isn’t it?
I felt sheepishly ironic that I’m blogging this. 2009 will be the year of Twitter, you should get on to Twitter if you haven’t already done so and you should follow me on Twitter.
I haven’t been in the meme loop for quite a while now, so I was pleasantly surprise when my Canadian friend Michael Kwan tagged me with this one. Doing this meme will hopefully reveal a little additional insight about me, on top of the 8 interesting facts meme I did last year.
5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago:
1. Starting my part-time degree course
2. Living at home with my parents
3. Contemplating the idea of marriage
4. House hunting
5. Going to the movies almost every weekend
5 Things on My To-Do List Today:
1. Get down to writing this meme
2. Reading that John Grisham novel
3. Buying lottery tickets of the million dollar draw
4. Go for a 5km run
5. Playing video games on my Xbox 360
1. Pay off my mortgage
2. Donate more money to charities
3. Take time off to travel the world
4. Make the wife quit her job and become a full-time homemaker
5. Help give my parents the retirement they deserve
5 Places I Have Lived (for various lengths of time)
1. Singapore (current permanent residence)
2. Rockhamton, Quensland Australia (while in the army)
3. Kachanaburi, Thailand (while in the army)
4. Brunei (while in the army)
5. Heng Chun, Southern Taiwan (while in the army)
5 Jobs I Have Had
1. General Worker
2. Market Research Assistant
3. Data Entry
4. Planner
5. Supply Chain Executive
You know how time really flies when you are having so much fun doing something you enjoy. And it seems only yesterday (ok, maybe longer) that I was getting a hangover from the raunchiest blog party and now we’ve come full circle and this blog had reached a milestone.
I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everybody who had visited, commented, subscribed, inspired and supported my blog throughout the past 12 months. Without your active participation and kind support, my blogging journey wouldn’t be so fun and colorful. It had been a journey littered with triumphant highs and nightmarish lows, and many valuable lessons learnt.
If the official opening one-year back marked the successful transition from a blogspot blog to self-hosted wordpress blog, then this First Anniversary blogging on Wordpress will celebrate the bonds and friendships that were forged in this community.
For those who had just joined this party, may I suggest you to check out my About page to see the face behind this blog and find out how my online alter ego was created, or have a good laugh at these interesting facts about the man behind Betshopboy.net
I’d like to thank each and everyone of you for being a part of this community and I look forward to celebrating more blog birthdays with all of you.
Those of you who has been on Twitter long enough would have at one time or another been hit by the “Twitter is down” message. Downtime has become par for the course for Twitter during big news events. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody can escape being caught in this technical mishap. Even the Third Reich got hit by this Twitter woes!
Anyone who thinks they are too cool to use Twitter can leave.
That is the funniest video parody I’ve seen in a long time, I was laughing so hard, it had me in stitches! I don’t speak Germans and don’t understand what was being said, then again I don’t Twitt in Germans. Just take note of the subtitle, the message was absolutely spot on!
