I just installed a plugin for Twitter’s fancy new @Anywhere service on my blog that automagically links people’s twitter names if I put an @ in front of them, and it even shows (or if you prefer, “seamlessly activates”) the new hovercard so you just hover your mouse over the name, and out of nowhere will appear a picture, a bio, their most recent tweet, and a follow button, just in case you’re too lazy to actually click through to the link that it automagically put there.

Testing this plugin seems like a good excuse to promote a few of my favorite tweeters, just in case you’re looking for friends. I’ve grouped them roughly by category.

Me

@sarahdavies

Infomaniacs (those insanely obsessed with information and how it effects humans)

@emahlee

@WebEcology

@laurenpressley

@kathy_live and @kegill

@sarterus

Nonprofits

@ACLU and @ACLU_WA

@NTENorg

@vittana

@WashingtonBus

@seafreeschool

@equalrightswa

@civicactions


The Strange yet Awesome

@unicornbooty

@awesomefound

Note: If you’re reading this through rss or Facebook, this won’t work for you. You have to be on the site. Since Facebook is amazingly good at hiding what site this came from, here’s a link for all you Facebookers. http://sarahdavies.cc/2010/04/23/we-have-been-assimilated-by-the-twitter

Second note: Damn, Twitter, way to rip off Obama’s graphic design. You guys had a great cute opaque curvy thing going. You don’t need to steal other people’s style, we like you just the way you are!

Third note: Since my twitter is in the sidebar of my blog, will my @replies on twitter come back to my blog and get hovercards linking them back to twitter in an endless recursive nightmare of microbloggy madness?

Posted by Sarah Davies, filed under twitter. Date: April 23, 2010, 11:05 am | View Comments

  • http://twitter.com/emahlee Emily Cunningham

    Let's see if @Anywhere works in the comments… For more Infomaniacs, @marshallk is a must-follow. He uses metaphors and concrete examples to demystify geek speak. In other words, he passionately makes uber geek concepts — like metadata or Big Data — uber accessible. Check out some of his writings:

    http://twitter.com/emahlee/status/12686622142
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_lo…
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_u…

  • http://twitter.com/emahlee Emily Cunningham

    It worked! Hey, on the subject of Twitter and information, finding those links below was not as seamless as it could have been. I have all of my tweets stored in my Google RSS Reader as a backup to Twitter. But. Google Reader won't let me search old tweets. I have to manually look through them (a pain when you have almost 1000 tweets). Do you know of a way for me to get old tweets out of Google Reader and put them up on the web somewhere (preferably WordPress). I now know how to get all tweets from this moment on automatically posted to WordPress. I just don't know how to get my old tweets out of Reader to make them easy for me to search. Thoughts? Feel free to Direct Message me or email me if that makes more sense.

    Thanks, Sarah. :)

    -Emily
    @emahlee

  • http://sarahdavies.cc Sarah Davies

    http://backupmytweets.com/ can export your tweets as html

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