Comments on: Stephen Fry and the Ascent of “Micro Blogging” http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2009/02/06/stephen-fry-and-the-ascent-of-micro-blogging Nifty Code and Random Musings Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2009/02/06/stephen-fry-and-the-ascent-of-micro-blogging/comment-page-1#comment-40665 Nick Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:16:28 +0000 http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/?p=301#comment-40665 This is a really interesting post Ian. As you know, I struggled myself to find a single tool with which to integrate multiple services. Eventually I found one and would recommend <a href="http://www.ibegin.com/labs/wp-lifestream/" rel="nofollow">wpLifestream</a> for <a href="http://wordpress.org" rel="nofollow">Wordpress</a> by <a href="http://www.ibegin.com" rel="nofollow">iBegin</a>. That said. It's read only. I agree with you about it taking the big players to make changes to see a genuine integrated tool though. It would be a real headache to take something like wpLifestream and get it to update all of the same services it reads from. Someone will do it though. Just like Stephen Fry has time to lead two lives, there are plenty of Geeks out there with nothing better to do! This is a really interesting post Ian. As you know, I struggled myself to find a single tool with which to integrate multiple services. Eventually I found one and would recommend wpLifestream for WordPress by iBegin.

That said. It’s read only.

I agree with you about it taking the big players to make changes to see a genuine integrated tool though. It would be a real headache to take something like wpLifestream and get it to update all of the same services it reads from.

Someone will do it though. Just like Stephen Fry has time to lead two lives, there are plenty of Geeks out there with nothing better to do!

]]> By: Carl Morris http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2009/02/06/stephen-fry-and-the-ascent-of-micro-blogging/comment-page-1#comment-39327 Carl Morris Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:11:00 +0000 http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/?p=301#comment-39327 <blockquote> How on earth he finds the time to live both his life virtually and as television celebrity I do not know. </blockquote> The key is that neither of those jobs requires much effort at all.

How on earth he finds the time to live both his life virtually and as television celebrity I do not know.

The key is that neither of those jobs requires much effort at all.

]]> By: Ian http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2009/02/06/stephen-fry-and-the-ascent-of-micro-blogging/comment-page-1#comment-39267 Ian Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:03:47 +0000 http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/?p=301#comment-39267 Thanks for that Boris, I didn't realise that twitter had had any problems with their counters. I am sure that he was very much helped by all the news floating around at the time. It's mildly amusing he is celebrating his 50,000th follower in one interview and less than a week later he has slmost 100,000.. Thanks for that Boris, I didn’t realise that twitter had had any problems with their counters. I am sure that he was very much helped by all the news floating around at the time. It’s mildly amusing he is celebrating his 50,000th follower in one interview and less than a week later he has slmost 100,000..

]]> By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2009/02/06/stephen-fry-and-the-ascent-of-micro-blogging/comment-page-1#comment-39266 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:00:06 +0000 http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/?p=301#comment-39266 Stephen Fry is surely one of the fastest growing Twitter users in the world. No doubt. But the jump on 27th January of 20,978 extra followers in a single day was not a what it seems. That is the day that Twitter fixed the Follower counts for high profile accounts. A lot of accounts didn't update properly and shows tens of thousands less follower than they had. Some hadn't updates in weeks. Almost everybody in the top 100 added thousands of followers in one day. That doesn't make Stephen Fry's story less interesting though. If he continues this extraordinary rise to fame he is going to have more followers than Obama in a few weeks... Stephen Fry is surely one of the fastest growing Twitter users in the world. No doubt. But the jump on 27th January of 20,978 extra followers in a single day was not a what it seems. That is the day that Twitter fixed the Follower counts for high profile accounts.

A lot of accounts didn’t update properly and shows tens of thousands less follower than they had. Some hadn’t updates in weeks. Almost everybody in the top 100 added thousands of followers in one day.

That doesn’t make Stephen Fry’s story less interesting though. If he continues this extraordinary rise to fame he is going to have more followers than Obama in a few weeks…

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