Erika Romero

[on break] my mom packed me some longaniza and rice. YUM! thanks mama. i feel like im in school again. haha.
6:01 AM Jul 20th from web

In 1998, I turned 12.
4:19 AM Jul 19th from Twitterrific

Apparently the new chickens hangout is on my window grill.. While they tap their beaks on my window.
3:53 AM Jul 15th from Twitterrific

I have definitely passed down my insomnia to my brother. still BOTH awake
2:57 PM Jul 14th from web

I stuffed a tissue in one nostril. i look ridiculous. im wondering if i should take a pic of it.
12:05 PM Jul 13th from web

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Paolo Valenciano on Twitter

the cost of living a comfortable life is enough to make you feel uncomfortable. sigh.
1:50 AM Jul 20th from web

somebody nominated me as Mr Twitter of the philippines. uhhh.. i don't know how i feel about this. haha!
11:12 PM Jul 15th from web

i love my country but im not so proud of it right now.
2:46 PM May 30th from web

JOOOOOKE! la salle kulelat
3:32 AM Jul 16th from web

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A very candid Saab Magalona on Twitter

I want kisses (the hersheys kind)
about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

OMG I dont wanna make patol but its super kaasar when a girl talks maarte but is a super palengkera naman inside. Yeah you sound like that.
1:13 PM Jul 22nd from TweetDeck

With our tuition fee, you'd think ateneo could do something abt the muddy and flooded sidewalks (near the library) :(
11:40 PM Jul 16th from mobile web

Snobby girls in Stella Luna giving me crazy eyes. Hey I can buy nice shoes too, leave me alone.
4:01 AM Jun 7th

It's my first trip to the dermatologist ever. I'm scared! But it's free so why not. Haha i have baby pimples near my brows:(
12:50 AM Jun 8th from mobile web

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Alex Barles Tweets

had fried chicken and chopseuy for lunch + kamatis and toyo as sawsawan. =)
11:31 PM Jul 14th from web

God changes us little by little. :-)
11:44 PM Jun 28th from web

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Francis Brew on Twitter

a scar on Jupiter, and a partial solar eclipse... renewed interest in astronomy. if only Celestrons were affordable ;p
12:53 AM Jul 22nd from web

is in Tracks. watching Rivermaya record their new ditties :) i want a barbecue from the store across the street
3:00 AM Jul 8th from TweetDeck

Begging for shore leave is NOT the same as abandoning ship.
8:31 AM May 16th from web

When you step on smelly shit, wipe it off right away. otherwise it'll make you slip
11:06 PM May 13th from web

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Vacation: Boston

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It’s that time of year when I take my annual pilgrimage to my personal mecca: a trip home to Boston.  This year we plan to visit friends and family on Cape Cod, visit Maine for a few days and of course spend time in Boston.  Unfortunately, no time to stop at Fenway and see the Sox. 

I am planning to attend a few tweet-ups! On Thursday night, July 16, Forrester Research is sponsoring a Social CRM tweet-up at the Middlesex Lounge. It promises to be a great event and there are over 100 people signed up. They are even offering a chance to win one of these two door prizes:

• Coffee chat with Forrester’s CEO George F. Colony
• A seat at an upcoming Forrester Teleconference on a topic of your choice

The hash tag for this event is #ForrJulyTweet.

On a more personal note, prior to the Forrester event, my good friend Rachel Levy, has organized a tweet-up for me.  She is calling it the embarrassing #Warrenup. Embarrassing or not, I am excited to see friends, Gradon Tripp, Rachel Happe, Doug Haslam, Peter Kim, Jim Storer, Mike Troiano and of course, Rachel.  For some of us, it will be the first time that we have met in person, not an unusual tweet-up experience.  If you are around, I’d love to meet you too.

You can learn all about the upcoming tweet-ups in this cool video produced by BostonTweetup.

 

If you’re in Boston (Cambridge actually). I hope to see you at the tweet-ups on Thursday, July 16th. Now if we can only get the sun to come out!

Tweespeed

The success of Twitter has inspired a lot of developers to create their own Twitter mashup. TweeSpeed is an example of this phenomenon. TweeSpeed is a web service that calculates the number of Twitter messages, also called tweets, sent in the last minute. TweeSpeed is based on the public timeline, it grabs information for the 5 last minutes and calculate an average speed for one minute. The actual number of Twitter messages is higher, Twitter messages from private accounts do not show up in the public timeline.

TweeSpeed offers three views of the number of Twitter messages per unit of time. There is the gauge at the front page. There is also a view of the speed by minute for the last day. And finally there is a view of the speed by hour for the last week.


The events around the death of Michael Jackson had a strong impact on Twitter, as already reported by the traditional media such, e.g. CNN.

Looking at the graphs made available by TweeSpeed, I discovered that it was possible to show more history that just the last day or the last week. The graph below starts at June 13, 2009. The rumors and the formal announcement of the death of Michael Jackson caused a sharp increase in the number of Twitter messages on June 25, 2009. The next peak was on June 29, 2009 - when all kind of rumors concerning the cause of death and the funeral arrangements were spreading around. The funeral and memorial service on July 7, 2009 triggered the third peak.



The graph shows also a cyclical trend. The volume of Twitter messages in the past four weeks is significantly lower on Saturdays and Sundays. The peaks occur typically around 20:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which is around 16:00 US Eastern time and also 13:00 US Pacific Time. The volumes of Twitter messages are at their lowest level between 11:00 and 12:00 UTC, which is around 7:00 and 8:00 US Eastern time and also 4:00 and 5:00 US Pacific Time, when the majority of the population in the United States is probably still sleeping. It looks like Twitter users from the United States are still dominating Twitter usage. Coincidentally, the volumes of Twitter message are at their highest levels during the working hours. Does this mean that Twitter users (especially in the United States) are still allowed to Twitter during working hours ?