Doing comments first on Twitter with Twickie

OK, so, what is the tool I was using earlier in the evening to get lots of responses from my Twitter followers and copy and paste them into my blog? Chris Pirillo’s Twickie.

How does it work?

I ask a question on Twitter.

People respond.

I log into Twickie. It lets me see the tweets I’ve posted. I click on a down arrow to see all responses.

I copy the HTML out of Twickie and I paste it into my blog editor’s HTML mode.

Real easy. Free. And demonstrates how you can use a crowd to do research.

Earlier tonight Chris told me it lets him write blog posts “backward.” See in the old world we’d write our opinions, then you’d comment. In Pirillo’s world you comment first, then he writes his blog post.

It’s a weird world and it’s Friday night, so I went with it and was amazed at the responses I got in just a few short minutes.

Thank you for participating. I’ll try other questions soon, I don’t want to overdo it.

Facebook passes 175 million users

Is it just me or is Facebook’s growth speeding up?

Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, tonight announced on Twitter/friendfeed that Facebook had passed 175 million users.

Congrats. I told a few people at Davos that Facebook would be THE story of the year in Silicon Valley. Twitter is trying to make it interesting, but Facebook really is far far ahead.

What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year?

Here’s another Twitter test. I just asked my Twitter followers this question: What is the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in the past year?

Within a couple of minutes TONS of answers came in. Here’s the results:

terrysimpson: Filofax

about 15 minutes ago

angellr: iPhone

about 15 minutes ago

photar: masturbation abstinance.

about 15 minutes ago

gadgetboy: My LIvescribe Pulse Smartpen! http://livescribe.com

about 15 minutes ago

mclaughj: Things for Mac

about 15 minutes ago

juliejulie: tweetdeck.

about 15 minutes ago

LemursManLemurs: Ubiquity.

about 15 minutes ago

TTIK: my car LOL

about 15 minutes ago

sellinggiants: smartphone

about 14 minutes ago

texaszman: GrandCentral by Google. By far.

about 14 minutes ago

sistaklein: either yammer or timebridge

about 14 minutes ago

emonome: weird answer, maybe, but iPhone.

about 14 minutes ago

charlieray: my acer aspire one

about 14 minutes ago

goaliemom31: TWEETDECK!

about 14 minutes ago

limyh: remember the milk. great GTD app, for personal productivity.

about 14 minutes ago

bicoastalite: I don&#39t have an answer! Just wanted to be part of your test!!

about 14 minutes ago

Bryceforvice: Squarespace

about 14 minutes ago

djpappas: Evernote – although I don&#39t use it enough.

about 14 minutes ago

JoeAndrieu: GoToMeeting. Hands down.

about 14 minutes ago

smashadv: this is a test of @scobleizer&#39s twitter tool without using any keywords from the question asked.

about 13 minutes ago

jaybarcelo: Re: Test new Twitter Tool

about 13 minutes ago

starobin: Best recent productivity tool – Evernote. With a close second to Dropbox.

about 13 minutes ago

MikeLizun: iPhone

about 13 minutes ago

fantomaster: MS OneNote.

about 13 minutes ago

dimensionmedia: does Freshbooks count? It&#39s made me productive in my invoices and getting payments.

about 13 minutes ago

PeterOA: Chandler

about 13 minutes ago

madpod: what are you using to paste replies?

about 13 minutes ago

aphexddb: notepad.exe

about 13 minutes ago

marcumeno: iphone for personal productivity; taking msft connector bus for work

about 13 minutes ago

Djalfy: does sleep count (Am an insomniac) and well yea its important to think with a clear mind

about 12 minutes ago

jdudley: without a doubt, “Things” for Mac is my top productivity took

about 12 minutes ago

oscarte: TweetDeck; no, kidding. For real; just a simple dashboard stickie to be always in the desktop and above all open windows

about 12 minutes ago

imusicmash: my Twitter All Bios at a Glance Greasemonkey script makes me more productive with Twitter. Check it out: http://bit.ly/oYwm

about 12 minutes ago

duilen: I think I started using Firebug early last year. It has easily saved me hundreds of hours. Much better than developers toolbar.

about 12 minutes ago

Smartalyx: Had to GMAIL checking all my other accounts and using IMAP to check GMAIL.

about 12 minutes ago

aaroneaton: A notebook and pen. Never runs out of batteries and is always synced!

about 12 minutes ago

mgasper42: As a newby on twitter its interesting to see other opinions on the greatest feature of twitter for others. Thanks for the tweet

about 12 minutes ago

Mosso: TweetDeck

about 11 minutes ago

katetribe: Having all newsletters, membership, and event emails going to a separate email address that I can check in sessions.

about 11 minutes ago

davehollis: a file cabinet.

about 11 minutes ago

adryenn: Plaxo! Syncs PC to internet, then to Mac, then to Blackberry. Google takes care of sharing so I always know where to be.

about 11 minutes ago

edelatorre: evernote

about 11 minutes ago

ajadoniz: google calendar sync, ubiquity

about 11 minutes ago

KevinCTofel: : second monitor in the home office.

about 11 minutes ago

GLENNatMHz: No question about it. . Pwnage Tool.

about 10 minutes ago

brandon_wirtz: Twitter! This guy trapped me on a bus, sang its praises, and 14 hours later I was Networking like a MoFo.

about 10 minutes ago

AuctionDirect: tie… a third monitor and ping.fm

about 10 minutes ago

mattbramanti: A stack of index cards and GTD.

about 10 minutes ago

evebutterflies: Xobni but KallOut comes in a close second

about 9 minutes ago

FreeRangeMom: believe it or not, starting to use Outlook calendar and task list was my best productivity tool (yes I&#39m slow to adopt)

about 9 minutes ago

santibarguen: The best tool I have used for a couple of weeks know is Twibeo. It lets you share photos, videos and more in twitter format.

about 9 minutes ago

Mossappeal: freshbooks

about 9 minutes ago

Schwa09: iPhone….no contest

about 8 minutes ago

lalitr: Anti-productivity tool, yet most new world opening : twitter. Best new productivity tool: Balanced Chart by Academic Writing Clb

about 8 minutes ago

ryancordell: Things by Cultured Code

about 8 minutes ago

marigo: yoga. yes, yoga is an amazing productivity tool (but nothing surpasses the good old Blackberry!)

about 8 minutes ago

mpinheir: Rememberthemilk.com

about 7 minutes ago

BasilLeaf: simpleGTD

about 7 minutes ago

soverland: Would be Remember the Milk for me…

about 7 minutes ago

dannyrobinson: #Things . Changed my life.

about 5 minutes ago

sixstringsnc: TweetDeck. Though it can eat time, I&#39ve learned more in 4 months about my craft & had eyes opened more than in past 4 years.

about 5 minutes ago

voppa: Best productivity tool? It&#39s an analog solution-A notepad on my desk. My productivity mantra has become “Make it intuitive!”

about 4 minutes ago

NinjaInDesign: the iPhone

about 4 minutes ago

myflatworld: Evernote

about 3 minutes ago

brettdusek: Microsoft Project

about 3 minutes ago

coquidesign: evernote is the best productivity tool for me! Love how iPhone and computer link with it.

about 3 minutes ago

techtweetr: Evernote

about 2 minutes ago

chimoose: a moleskine notebook

about 2 minutes ago

rgoodwin: a trash bin and a liberal sense of detachment from unnecessary objects.

59 seconds ago

dane: my best new productivity tool, the ScanSnap S510, finally reasonably paperless. Fast double side scanning to PDF, OCR indexing.

58 seconds ago

mirven: Things, without a doubt

56 seconds ago

texasgirltrix: What do you mean reply to this message on Twitter? Aren&#39t we on Twitter?? OMG……………..

36 seconds ago

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