Skittles

This week twitter took over the Skittles home page and anytime you wrote a tweet it went straight to the home page - suddenly messages like “Skittles shown to cause cancer” appeared on the home page - it takes a gutsy brand but once the fuss has died down it points to the end of the web and the rise and rise of the social web. The customer is once again king.

Skittles changed their web site to go 100% social

Twitter Clients

I have been experimenting with various twitter clients such as Twhirl, Twitter mobile and Twitter on Facebook - but it looks like the emerging winner is TweetDeck which sits very nicely on my second monitor. I love the quick URL crunching tool - which makes tweeting that bit easier.

Tweetdeck is the most usable twitter client

Profile waste of time

In the old days we used spend our downtime changing the screen colours on our Windows settings - this has been replaced by the ultimate vanity of changing the profile photos.  Read this enjoyable post from All Facebook to see all the different types of Photo styles people have come up with.

Number one of the profile photo styles