Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
IT
This is how the Tweet buttons looked on this blog briefly last night:  Shortly thereafter, it returned to its accustomed single-digit level. It was probably something to do with Twitterās
Blogging
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to
Blogging
The observant might have noticed the arrival of the new, official, Tweet button [http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton] and a more compact Facebook Like button on this here blog a few days ago. I tend to use OM&HB as a testing ground for things we could roll out
Blogs
Interesting piece in The Economist [http://www.economist.com/node/16432794?story_id=16432794]: > People are not tiring of the chance to publish and communicate on the internet easily and at almost no cost. Experimentation has brought innovations, such as comment threads, and the ability to mix thoughts, pictures
Iāve been playing with this on my iPad this morning (like the rest of the social web, it seems): Iāve been waiting for a game changing content app to emerge on the device since I laid hands on the iPad ā far too many apps are still rooted in
echo chambers
[![Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in P...]()](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG) The āParliament can go hang itselfā editionā¦- [Where next for the Telegraphās digital strategy?](http://paidcontent.co.uk/
BBC
So, how has the online media done on this election? The BBC has reported unprecedented levels of traffic to its site this morning, but Paul Bradshaw has a good post up, suggesting that thereās a degree ofhomogenisationĀ amongst the online news outlets [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/05/07/uk-general-election-2010-online-journalism-is-ordinary/
Politics
The reaction to my recent post to Twitter and politics has been, well, stimulating. By way of exploring this issues raised a little further, I thought Iād run a quick poll: [Would you unfollow someone for expressing support for a political party?](http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/3122577/)[Market
Blogging
I am a perpetual floating voter. I have political opinions, but no strong party loyalty ā and Iāve voted for all the main parties and some minority ones in the elections Iāve participated in over the last couple of decades. Thereās a simple reason for this: I believe
books
Stuck at home, in bed, making an exciting variety of unpleasant chesty noises. Be glad this isnāt an audio blog. Here are some things that have caught my eye: - [Twitter Media](http://media.twitter.com/) ā A blog and set of advice from Twitter to journalists about getting the
creative commons
Thereās a good rule of thumb in life: everyone makes mistakes. If you subscribe to that, you tend to allow people chance to correct their mistakes, and itās in that situation that youāll discover their true character. Take the issue of using other peopleās photographs in
chris brogan
A restaurant run for Twitterers. A hotel with blogger specials. They make you feel special. They make you feel part of a community. We love feeling special. [Chris Brogan](http://www.chrisbrogan.com/) is *entertaining* us.[