Twitter Experiment

I've noted lots of people have started to add me to the list of followers just after a post. I'm assuming these are happening from keywords in my posts, which begs the questions:

a) why
b) how

One can only assume that the why is because if I follow you there is a good chance you will follow me. This can lead to an inflated ammount of followers but are they really useful? I guess if you have enough followers (aka listners) it could be deemed a powerfull tool and not just an ego nursing exercise. So I think I'll test this with a new twitter account on a subject which is more of a hobby to me than anthing else right now, poker. Rightly or wrongly I'm probabley just going to leave this as an automatic update system for now but I think it will be interesting to see how many followers I can get from using a service such as twollo (the how).

Twollo was supposedly developed in a day for $150 but appears to be a paid for service after a free trial, so this may be a pretty short test, but none the less I think its with a twirl.

ps. next I'll be testing out OutTwit Retweet this button on every post blogger

How to Add Twitter (Retweet) Button to Blogger Posts

Login to your blogger dashboard.

Navigate to Layout >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widget Templates

Search for and paste the following codes just before or after it. Adding the code before will show the Retweet button on the top of your post while adding after will show the Rettweet button on the bottom of your post.

For Digg like Button, use the following code.

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Flex Designs

A new toy has been beta released by Adobe called Flash Catalyst. Being beta software its not got the full feature set but it is free to use. As I'm not a Flex developer, free software for occasional use is ideal.

I'm going to assume that it won't be free for long so I'm going to save the download in my dropbox account.

Supposedly, you simply create your design in photoshop or illustrator, then import it into flash catalyst and then it make it very simple to create your designs layers for your flex app.

Update: Here's a handy post from SitePoint about using Catalyst and Twitter
Update2: Serial codes for the beta

• Windows — 1395-1003-6369-7619-0587-6556
• Macintosh — 1395-0008-4467-2145-8771-1212

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