---
title: 'Pulse of Portland begins beating'
date: '2008-01-11T16:30:13-08:00'
type: post
word_count: 203
char_count: 1312
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categories:
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - PulseOfPDX
  - Streams
  - Tools
  - Twitter
---

# Pulse of Portland begins beating

The Portland-area [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter") hits just keep on coming.

In the “links arrangement” below, I highlighted [a post that Scott Kveton published yesterday](http://kveton.com/blog/2008/01/10/power-of-pdx-twitterverse/ "Power of PDX Twitterverse"), where he mentioned an idea for following what Portland was talking about on Twitter. Today, [Josh Bancroft](http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com "Tiny Screenfuls") made it a reality.

[Pulse of PDX](http://pulseofpdx.com "Pulse of PDX") has launched.

How does it work? Anyone from Portland who is followed by [@pulseofpdx](http://twitter.com/pulseofpdx "Pulse of PDX on Twitter") on Twitter (and following [@pulseofpdx](http://twitter.com/pulseofpdx "Pulse of PDX on Twitter") is the easiest way to be added) will be added to a stream of comments that are published to the Pulse of PDX site.

So, if you’re not using Twitter (For shame! [Here’s how you get started](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/01/04/portland-a-twitter-an-editorial-opinion/ "Portland a-Twitter")), you’re still dipping your toe in the Twitter water, or you’re not really interested in following all of Portland and Vancouver, try checking out [Pulse of PDX](http://pulseofpdx.com "Pulse of PDX") and listen in on the talk of the town, today.