Tenacious tech talk and Twitter twaddle

Sciencetext Tech Talk had some rather popular posts in 2009 (and overall doubled 2008 visitor rates). Among those that brought in the most visitors were the following choice snippets. Perhaps not surprisingly the most popular seem to be about last year’s favorite website Twitter; I’ve excluded popular posts that were written before 2009:

TwitBlock Tracks Down Twitter Spammers – does what it says on the tin, analyzes your Twitter following and shows you which ones are the most likely to be nothing more than lowdown spammers.

Twitter decision flowchart – my personal algorithm for deciding who among my new Twitter followers I should follow back, somewhat tongue-in-cheek but it also seems to have captured the imagination of many Twitter users, who recognize in it elements of their own approach to the follow/not follow conundrum.

Ten brutal Twitter tips – a round up of attitudes to Twitter that will help you get the most from the service for the mutual benefit of you and other genuine users, not for the faint-hearted and certainly not for anyone who thinks they’re some kind of maverick social media guru entrepeneur.

Twitter between blogging and sending email – What did you do in 2009 when you weren’t emailing or writing blog posts? Twitter, of course. Just don’t make yourself look stoopid.

Share groups of twitter users – I spent far too much time in 2009 compiling scientwists (science types on Twitter) and when I’d aggregated some 600 of them, twitter announced its own list system, which kind of made my original list redundant but also gave me an excuse to create even more lists of scientists on twitter in different categories – Sciencebase scientific twitter lists.