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Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

MG Siegler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:28:01 -0000

Excellent. Thank ya.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

Derek van Vliet — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:22:56 -0000

Full video here: http://bit.ly/18bZy6

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

MG Siegler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:19:25 -0000

Zing!

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

MG Siegler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:19:12 -0000

Haven't seen one yet Derek, lemme know if you find one and I'll embed it.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

MG Siegler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:18:38 -0000

Yeah, sounds like there weren't too many details, though Mike has some below.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

rkorba — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:47:37 -0000

clearly, Herb Caen would be proud of our babylon by the bay, complete with philandering mayor running for gov in 140 characters or less

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

MG Siegler — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:55:42 -0000

Great stuff Mike. Hilarious about the pot holes. Also good to know that is really is him using it.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

Daniel Tunkelang — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:54:41 -0000

I was going to suggest that he meant that San Francisco would see a traffic increase of 752% but no sustainable revenue model. But that would be catty. :-)

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

mdoeff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:13 -0000

I caught most of the livestream this morning. They talked quite a bit about how Twitter might be useful for local government but there were nothing was really committed to. Newsom said that he's been receiving tweets from people about pot holes and actually taking action on those requests (he made a disclaimer that he wouldn't be able to respond to every pothole complaint). He also talked about how Twitter could evolve into something like the 311 service and text message services that are currently in place. They also talked about how it could be a useful tool to do public opinion polls and use it as an emergency broadcast system. There was a funny moment where Newsom said that his staff freaked out when he told them that he had opened a Twitter account last month. they said "Don't touch that thing" but later agreed to him using it.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

Derek van Vliet — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:51:33 -0000

Did anyone catch the stream and put it on youtube?

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

xbaez — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:35:00 -0000

It's great how Twitter is growing up and how it has many uses ...