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Confucius on Twitter

A small experiment on Twitter, followed from July 2009 to September 2012: an account that tweets a Confucius quote twice a day, and what makes its follower count grow. In reading order.

  1. Confucius on Twitter

    This is a quick experiment on Twitter. The idea is simple. Create a twitter account where the tweets are relevant to the followers and updated …

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  2. Confucius on Twitter – first findings

    Let’s revisit that Confucius experiment with some numbers. Confucius has 16 followers. He is following them all back. Without planned promotion this wont go very …

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  3. Confucius progress on twitter

    Time for a quick update on confucius140, my little Chinese wisdom experiment on twitter. To make Confucius more findable, I added hash tags to each …

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  4. Confucius still tweeting

    Confucius is still tweeting – or the bot behind Confucius140 twitter account is. I adapted it recently to support the new twitter API and just …

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  5. Confucius said, twitter is growing

    Time for a quite update on how Confucius140 is growing on twitter. It is a experimental account that tweet twice a day a famous quote. …

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