Micro-blogging
Life, and everything else… in 140 characters
Abhishek Baxi
www.baxiabhishek.info

I’m a geek next door, with some interesting perspectives on
technology and new media,
work with Microsoft and brought Photowalking to India.
Photowalking
www.photowalking.info
Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)
www.microsoft.com/india/mvp

2006

From Blogger guys
March, 2006
From Kevin ‘Digg’ Rose
June, 2006
Acquired by Google
July, 2006

Yeh twitter-twitter kya hai?
Yeh twitter-twitter?

It’s all about the number!
Videos > Photos > Blogging >>> Micro-blogging

River of Updates…
from people you follow

Web
RSS
Phone (SMS)
Facebook
Desktop apps
IM
Start pages
Widgets
Mashups
Sidebar gadgets
Firefox extensions
Bookmarklet (TwitThis)

-Impulsive blogging
-Events
-Questions
-News/Traffic/Weather
-Marketing
-Social Conversations
-Direct Traffic
-Personal Branding

-Research
-Personal Branding
-Promote
- Votes
-Reviews

-Promoting Events
-Building Conversations
-Press Releases (SMRs)
-Direct Traffic
-Promotions/Offers

- Replies
- Threads/Ratings
- No character limit
- No SMS
-Threads

Tracking
Bots
@
Hashtags
URLs

Twitterfeed
TwitPic
Twittervision
Tweetmeme
TwitterBlacklist
TweetScan
Summize
TweetrBoard, TweetWheel,
TweetBurner, Twubble,
Twitterholic, Terraminds, Quotably

-Privacy
-Reliability
-Abuse
-Clutter
-Addictive!

-Discretion
-Impersonation
-Profanity
-Spam
-Long tweets
-One-to-one Conversations

Abhishek Baxi
abby@baxiabhishek.info | +91 987 112 7378 | www.baxiabhishek.info
twitter.com/baxiabhishek

OK tata! Phir milenge…
In-flight view
Seattle, USA