On Twitter, the short code for a quote you overheard is OH. There are two quotes I recently heard I would like to give a longer lasting attention then just a Tweet:
Let the Dataset change your Mindset
And seen on some toilet art
Women like silent men. They believe they are listening.
A couple of weeks ago my buddy Joost de Valk tweeted the following message:
Ok who can tell me where I can get a DiNovo Edge Mac edition in Holland? It's frustrating to click Adwords ads and find just the pc edition.
I know how frustrating it can be, you want to have a new gadget but you are not able to get it in The Netherlands. So I tweeted:
@yoast you need me to buy it in the US, and deliver to the NL?
So started a short conversation how we would get the keyboard from A to B.
@TheNextCorner seems like that would be a good solution... Amazon doesn't ship it to Europe... When are you here next?
@yoast my wife is traveling next week on Monday. She would be able to mail it to you...
@TheNextCorner
that'd make my day
DM me your PayPal and tell me what it'll cost
And so started a 5,000 miles journey of a designer DiNovo Edge for Mac keyboard across the world.
Eventually, it was not my wife but one of my colleagues, Chae, who took the keyboard as hand luggage to The Netherlands.
He gave it to Luke, another colleague at Marktplaats, who finally had a coffee with Joost to deliver the keyboard.
The new set up of Joost looks really sweet. I’m looking forward to all the new plug ins for WordPress and the radio shows he will deliver through this new keyboard.
The 5,000 miles journey of this keyboard would have never happened without Twitter. Maybe Joost and I would have talked over Skype or chatted through IM, or even over email and the subject would come up, but I highly doubt it.
What a plane crashed in the Hudson river and the famous picture was published on Twitpic, the phone didn't stop ringing for the maker of that picture Janis Krums. All the news agencies were trying to get an interview, and their main source of contacting the maker was through Twitter.
Today another horrible plane crash happened. This time there were casualties in the plane crash of a Turkish Airlines airplane near Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ansgar John, who I met through blogs and Twitter in The Netherlands, was driving his car and witnessed the plane crash. He jumped out and ran into the field to help people get out of the plane. In my eyes, he is a hero.
Later that day, he put some messages on Twitter, that described what he had experienced.
Saw the plane go down and entered plane to help until emergency services arrived Amsterdam Schiphol crash , lot of back injuries +/- 10 dead
going to take a shower to get rid of blood and mud #schiphol
Quite fast after these Tweets, the # of followers jumped:
Ansgarjohn Twitter follower jump
He has been contacted through Twitter by all major news agencies around the world with requests for interviews.
@ansgarjohn Hi, twittering from abc news, london-- would love to hear more about your experience...can we give you a call?
@ansgarjohn CNN International are interesting in talking to you. Please can you contact me.
@ansgarjohn wondered if you might be free to talk to SkyNews about the crash?
"NOS TV live: @ansgarjohn explaining what he saw: 40 people already left the plane when I arrived." from http://schiphol.zcapes.com
@ansgarjohn: tonight I will be on Een Vandaag Dutch television #schiphol even got twitter from Al Jazeera
@ansgarjohn can't reach you on the number you gave - we'd be very keen to talk to you at Aljazeera in next 10 mins if you can get back to me
The fact that Ansgar did not stayed at a distance but went into the plane to rescue and help people is amazing. Who knows what you would have done at a situation like that. The plane could have blow up! But Ansgar went in without thinking about himself.
What is interesting, is that the major news agencies are scanning Twitter to find eye witnesses of major news that just broke. Twitter is fast becoming the new rolodex for every journalist out there.
Twitter is a hard to miss tool for all media. If it comes to breaking news or getting in contact with eyewitnesses for an interview, Twitter is the tool that can help every journalist.
And off course Twitter is the subject in so many news stories right now, even in this one.
The ultimate experience has happened... I can now speak to God directly. Millions of people have the feeling they can do that for years, and they actually come together every Sunday morning to do so, but they hope God is listening. Those people we call Catholics.
I got a direct line since this morning. Since I got the following message in my inbox:
So what do you have to say to God if you have a direct line to him...? What would you tell him? and are you really that confident God is a him?
Like I was excited when Hammer started following me, but now, I'm super excited. But that puts the bar even higher, right. What's next? Michael Jackson will start following me, that's not excited, but rather scary.
