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Nothing but good from @badbanana
A couple of big props came out last week for Tim Siedell, Creative Director at Lincoln-based Fuse Industries, for his wit behind the Twitter account @badbanna. Thanks to consistently hilarious 140 characters or less statements like the one above, @badbanana has over 160,000 followers. That number is sure to continue growing thanks to being named…
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Web-based Twitter client CrowdLens looking for beta testers
Earlier this week, a tweet Jimmy Winter directed Nick Ashley’s way sparked my interest. “Now get me in on that crowdlens beta!” Jimmy wrote. I’m always on the lookout for beta invites or announcements in our region, so I contacted Nick for more information. CrowdLens is in public beta, so anyone can login and give…
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Kansas City and Lawrence to host twestival local events
In less than two weeks, Twestival Local, an event inspired by a group of London Twitterers’ Harvest Twestival in 2008, will be taking place in cities all over the world. On The Prairie, Lawrence will be hosting one on the 10th for the Lawrence Humane Society, and Kansas City on the 11th for the Wayside…
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Retweet This: @GabeK behind @RT_Thursday
What began as a parody of the most popular Twitter memes, #FollowFriday and #MusicMonday, has begun to gain a following of its own. In April, Omahan Gabe Kangas, @GabeK on Twitter, began manually retweeting his and his friends’ pointless tweets from the username RT_Thursday. “It was a joke,” he recalled, “and only my followers got…
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SPN is on Twitter!
Or maybe I should say, Analog the Prairie Dog is on Twitter! A couple weeks ago, our mascot sent out his first tweet: We’re excited to “officially” join the Twittersphere. As a blog that promotes the use of social media to advance business, we hope that @siliconprairie sets an example. We’ve come up with five…
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Free Air Collective launches “Trivia on Twitter” after forming partnership in the Valley
In today’s Weekly Wrap Up we linked to a story released by Mashable reviewing a new Twitter game that Grand Island-based Free Air Collective had a hand in making. From Mashable: The game is simple. Users follow @Trivia, which tweets out questions on a regular basis. The questions fall into one of 13 categories, ranging…
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Evan Williams video from UNL
As we reported, Evan Williams of Twitter was at UNL’s Raikes School last Friday afternoon. It was interesting to hear directly from Evan on his vision, history and outlook into Twitter’s future. Enjoy and stay tuned for more stories we’re going to cut of some of the outstanding students enrolled at the school.
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Webcast: founder of Twitter at UNL tomorrow
Nebraska native Evan Williams will return to his home state tomorrow to participate in a series of events at his alma mater, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Unfortunately, these events are not open to the public, but two of them will be webcasted. Evan Williams, the founder and chief executive of Twitter, will be at the University…
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Weekly Wrap Up
Every Friday, we’ll be linking to the previous week’s news that pertains to “SPNers” and listing the upcoming week’s events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 3/27 – NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by What Cheer 3/30 – OWH: Movers: Venture based on music buzz, Jimmy Winter of Music Arsenal 3/30 – Life…