I recently dug through Favstar.fm and found a bunch of the tweets over the last few months that were saved/retweeted the most. Wanted to save them here for posterity:
Teardowns
- Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, Hotmail, Blogger, Apple: How they used to look http://t.co/fL2zDHu0
- The Secret To Pinterest’s Astounding Success: A Brilliant Sign-Up Process You Should Copy http://t.co/AsGi9pBx
- Airbnb’s first pitch deck http://t.co/3BTSY6dO
- Android Gripes, Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone? http://bit.ly/h19EKL
- Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience http://bit.ly/dN3W3d
Compilations
- 11 Books Every Leader Should Read – Bob Sutton http://t.co/gwViu9DQ
- 5 Articles on Rapid Prototyping you Should Have Read – LaunchBit http://t.co/cF10LzKI
- Platforms and Networks: Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2011 http://t.co/mdeyv3wK
- 5 Former Design Trends That Aren’t Cool Anymore (So Stop Using Them) | Design Shack http://t.co/59prlt1N
Quotes
- “Success is like being pregnant: everybody congratulates you but nobody knows how many times you were fucked…” via @NatalieSEO
- “No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.” –Alan Cooper (via @destraynor)
- Very appropriate for entrepreneurs: “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” -Nietzsche
- grid is the new feed, custom cover is the new custom background, real name is the new username, and repin/reblog is the new embed code.
- “The easiest way to get 1 million people paying is to get 1 billion people using” -Phil Libin, CEO Evernote http://bit.ly/f1SY7U
Media
- Steve Jobs – 25 years old, rare footage of him presenting about early Apple http://t.co/AiNbyW0S
- INFOGRAPHIC: How rich are the superrich? http://bit.ly/hxavXB
- INFOGRAPHIC: Carbs Are Killing You http://t.co/FMdZ5pEG
- Amazing PDF with lots of conversion %s to compare your product against http://bit.ly/e2t6Ip
Articles
- Bye Bye, Long Tail http://tcrn.ch/gfTOYP
- interesting lesson on listening to customer self-reporting: Walmart’s $1.85 billon dollar mistake – Daily Artifacts http://t.co/8GLLajdx
- Design is Horseshit! http://t.co/12vw2MZN
- If You’re Competing On Features You’ve Already Lost http://bit.ly/jbfk8p
- My answer on Quora to: What are the best metrics for measuring user engagement? http://qr.ae/OyAD
- i find myself explaining scalable startups vs smallbiz / lifestyle all the time. This blog breaks it down. Via @sgblank http://t.co/DJNSkTx
- Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science | Wired.com http://t.co/Zd53Z3Bl
- The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again http://bit.ly/fjZUhk
