Twit Or Fit launches today - effectively an idea borne of combining Twitter with a site like Hot Or Not, where you rate the appearance of people displayed. HotOrNot was recently sold for a rumored $20 million, but since TwitOrFit relies on Twitter and therefore has little inherent intellectual property, I somehow doubt it will attract a similar valuation. However, it is already doing a lot of traffic and the US - Twitter's biggest market outside Japan - is only just waking up right now. (The site is coming out of the UK, where Twit is slang for fool and Fit means good-looking). Full story...
This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup.
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There is a tweet being retweeted heavily within the German Twitter community right now which roughly translates as
"BEWARE Nazi-pigs on Twitter! @Heil_Hitler_88 Please block so that the account gets deleted.
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I've been thinking about this quite a bit in the past few weeks and Adam Frucci wrote something that caught my attention, concentrating my thoughts the way a seed crystal builds boules of material in the Czochralski process.