Marcus Hamaker is The Sleepy Geek

I am spending a couple of hours tweeting and surfing while my buddy borrows a computer to check his email. While doing so I saw a website fly by on Twitter. Like I normally do, I hit the link and then immediately went back to Tweetdeck to read some other posts. I leave my stuff rot in Firefox sometimes for ever just because I am busy with other things. But another tab won’t hurt right?

Well this tab was there for over an hour and I had forgotten about it. Pointing to http://visibletweets.com/ I inadvertently clicked on it. It was a clean site, so I put in my twitter ID and just watched. This is an amazing thing to watch. Sit back, relax and enjoy the great programming.

After you have come back to reality, you realize that this site actually is more than just pretty. One of the animation options in the top right of the screen is “cloud”. So if you entered your ID as the search critera then you can see what other words in posts about you are being referenced more. VERY COOL.

Have fun with it! And above all, appreciate the good craftsmanship here ;)

I was chatting with @Gordonamy today and she was talking about a friend who lost of their followers. Seems like another Twitter glitch and so after some back and forth about the horrors  of it all, she asked “@thesleepygeek hopefully, its a simple fix hey, how DO we back up our lists anyway?”

Of course that prompts a searching session and it brought me here: http://tweetbackup.com/.

This service seems to provide a backup that we all probably want. The problem is that after some digging it isn’t a backup if your profile. ***UPDATE (2-May-09): Read the commend below from Jonas*** This service will simply backup all of your tweets and all you have to do it follow them. Their server will automatically follow your account and record anything that you tweet.

Cool service, but don’t be fooled. At this point the only people who are backing up twitter accounts are twitter themselves. Someone please prove me wrong and let me know!

So you’re trying to build up a following on Twitter, but things like sleep, work, and bathroom breaks are getting in the way of your goal to out-update Scoble?

via Schedule Twitter updates with Twuffer and FutureTweets.

• Bedtime, good night twit world! #

• Good morning twitter world. Today I am going to try and install OSX on a non-Mac. This is just for sport! #
• AAckkk, can’t get my wordpress to automatically update plurk.
  I just want to get my word out there as far as possible. #
• @Veronica Are ugly guys telling you that you are pretty again? Only you feel what you feel! #
• Listening to the Hip! Blow at High Dough, now Boots or Hearts. Come on all ye Cunucks! #
• Time to head home from work. Lots of things to do tonight before leaving on vacation on Saturday! #

• Had a good evening last night with my dad and family. It was his b-day. Then went for a late night swim with my wife. Pool was an awesome 80 #
• Does anyone else feel like this is the @chrisbrogan network? Chris, how do you have so much time for twitter? Keep it up :) #
• @chrispirillo ummm, no… no she can’t :( #
• Getting a Tim Horton’s coffee. They are too good! #

• Best Suzuki online dealer? www.brownspoint.com from NJ. Being from Canada that sucks but that’s not their fault :) #
• @tekknikk Where are you? #
• Watching Lewis Black on youtube. He’s so funny! #
• I agree. Pardon for George Bush? wow. #

• Why is it impossible to find Suzuki marine parts? I need it faster than online can give me. #

• On my way to the cottage for a weekend of family fun. #
• At the cottage this weekend. Took a look around at some articles this morning. You all have a good day. I am heading out on the boat :) #

• @Scobleizer How is the even useful. Shed some light on it so I can too be a twitter entrepreneur :) Isn’t too many updates unmanageable? #
• Yay, I can tweet again. Hi everyone! #
• Time to hit the hay. Did some hardcore chatting over at live.pirillo.com and now it’s 12:40am. Tomorrow is going to SUCK! Night all. #
• Just had amazing lunch on a work friend’s boat with some other friends. What an amazing day for it. Weather this weekend is going to be A1! #