Proof Twitter Works

by Jim Duncan on July 16, 2008

Two of the best aspects of Twitter are the immediacy and the relationships that can be developed in 140 characters or less. For example:

Earlier this week I noticed a splog was stealing the content of my blog - the entire thing. Fortunately, it was hosted on Google’s Blogger service which happens to have a “flag” feature. One person flagging likely wouldn’t have an impact; many people …

I asked my friends on Twitter to flag this blog, and this is the result -

The power of one tweet leveraged into many voices


Culminating in this -

Splogger foiled
Moral of the story? Don’t underestimate the power of 140 characters.

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Jay Thompson 07.17.08 at 1:00 pm

Nice. *Very* nice! I was one (of many) who heard of this on Twitter and flagged said illegal blog.

Apparently Google got the message loud and clear!

Thanks for the follow up.

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