tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947847792207402552012-02-16T19:37:26.427-08:00a piece of martingover.comecom131noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-6644577466119221382011-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:002011-09-01T21:24:34.655-07:00

Ignore the naysayers: Twitter is what you make it There is seldom a shortage of people to tell you how banal or tedious Twitter is but, as any user will tell you, the social network is only as good as the people you follow. check out daily telegraph article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8721163/Ignore-the-naysayers-Twitter-is-what-you-make-it.html 

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Kind of a cool site - see what is trending on twitter- real time - ANYWHERE Trendmap

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LONDON (AP) — The Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States set the record for tweets per second, eclipsing the wedding of Prince William and Kate and the death of Osama bin Laden. Japan rallied twice to tie the United States 2-2 after extra time before winning a penalty shootout on Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany. The U.S. was aiming for its third World Cup victory, while

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By John C Abell May 2, 2011  |  As if a service with hundreds of millions of users needed to come of age, Twitter is said to have had its

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By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer – Mon May 2, 9:14 pm ETNEW YORK – A soldier in Afghanistan learned about the death of Osama bin Laden on Facebook. A TV producer in South Carolina got a tip from comedian Kathy Griffin on Twitter. A blues musician in Denver received an email alert from The New York Times. And a Kansas woman found out as she absently

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Feb 23, 2010 at 7:45am ET by Matt McGee Twitter caused a stir Monday when it lifted its curtain enough to show us how much activity the service is seeing currently, and how it’s grown since 2007. And while many reports talk about visits to Twitter.com flattening, Twitter’s own chart showing the number of tweets its users are publishing is staggering. Twitter says it’s currently seeing about

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Courtney Love's settlement of a case sparked by online attacks on a fashion designer show that while Twitter posts may be short, they can also be costly. The singer has agreed to pay Dawn Simorangkir $430,000, plus interest, to settle a lawsuit the designer filed in March 2009 over comments Love made on Twitter and her MySpace blog. While the case didn't go to a jury, First Amendment experts

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Research firm eMarketer estimates that more than half of adult internet users in the US were logging on to Facebook at least once per month at the end of last year. In 2011, the company forecasts that 132.5 million US web users will use the site monthly. Twitter, it adds, will enjoy faster growth rates in the near future but continue to attract ‘relatively few’ online Americans. An increase of

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Here’s a telling study that measured the Year-over-year use of email across all age ranges. Not all that surprising to find that teens (12-17) are using it less than anyone considering how popular social networks and text messaging have become. Although it’s slightly surprising to see that the decline in email use carries all the way from ages 12-54. I’ve got one big, obvious takeaway from

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Twitter will earn $150 million in 2011, more than three times the $45 million it earned in 2010, according to the firm’s estimates. In 2012, Twitter’s revenue could reach $250 million, eMarketer said. The fast-growing revenue projections suggest that Twitter has the potential to be a real moneymaker, not just a nifty communications service. Ever since Twitter was founded nearly five years ago,

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From National Post Blog: Tunisia’s so-called Twitter Revolution is different than the Iranian and Moldovan ones that preceded it: Some say Twitter saved lives in Tunisia. There were tweets warning of sniper locations, tweets asking for blood donation, and tweets organizing protests. At least one man, known on Twitter as BulletSkan, says he is still breathing because of the social network. Indeed

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re remember Twitter back int the day?http://www.techeblog.com/elephant/photo.phtml?post_key=162249&photo_key=51503 

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Twitter has received a $200 million infusion led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the premier venture capital firms in the world, and a key early-stage investor in a little company called Google. Kara Swisher at AllThingsD broke the news (again). The new investment round reinforces Twitter is one of the most important communications companies in the world, often mentioned in the same

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Google is getting more and more friendly with Twitter, and the Twitterverse is awash with rumors of a Google Twitter buy-out. This is very strongly denied by Twitter-bosses but it is fair to say that Google is trying to become more social. Now, Google is running a new experiment where for a select number of users, a twitter integration box will be revealed.  from REv2 .org http://www.rev2

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There have now been more than 20 billion tweets since Twitter’s inception, according to tracking service GigaTweet. The milestone comes just two months after the service hit 15 billion tweets and about five months since it reached 10 billion, indicating that activity levels on the microblogging service continue to accelerate. While GigaTweet’s count is unofficial, Twitter indicated earlier this

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-78361180237853334312010-07-23T09:06:00.000-07:002010-07-23T09:06:22.035-07:00

Facebook reached its 500 million member milestone yesterday and celebrated the event with the launch of Facebook Stories. The monumental moment also played a role in the ABC World News report featuring a candid interview between Diane Sawyer and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  Info Graphic for facebook - click here

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Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today. That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search

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Despite massive Twitter activity due to ongoing World Cup match play, Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denwark in the World Cup. These new numbers come directly from Twitter (). You may recall that the previous

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Full image here

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According to Twitter CTO Dick Costolo, about 65 million tweets are sent on Twitter each day. This equates to roughly 1.96 billion tweets per month, a stat that’s corroborated by Pingdom’s estimate of 2 billion tweets per month.Just over a week ago, we reported that Twitter hit the 15 billion tweet mark. The service announced its ten billionth tweet just a few months before that, and hit

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Twitter COO Dick Cosotolo offered some updated stats at the Conversational Media Summit today in New York City. Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day. “We’re laying down track as fast as we can in front of the train,” says Costolo. These numbers are up slightly from 180 million self-reported unique visitors per month

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  twitter video referral  stats  shown by video measurement company TubeMogul show that Twitter is quickly growing as a top referrer for web video traffic, far outpacing Facebook, Yahoo, Google and Bing.   from mashable

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n March 21, 2006, Twitter’s founders published their first tweets. If you look at that moment as a big bang of influence in the ever-expanding Twittersphere, how does Twitter’s cosmos look today? Web design studio Information Architects aims to answer that with an enormous visualization of the Cosmic 140, or the 140 most influential users on Twitter.The map may look a bit chaotic at first,

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A few weeks ago, when it was safe and sane to go for dinner in the middle of Bangkok, some colleagues and I were in the middle of dinner at a Japanese restaurant when a loud boom was heard in the distance. All of three of us reached immediately for our BlackBerries. A year ago, we might have e-mailed our editors to see what the news wires were reporting, or checked a television set for an update

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The company finally revealed its long mysterious registered user number, and it’s surprisingly large (based on some prior outside estimates): 105 million, or to be exact, 105,779,710, according to a slide showing behind co-founder Biz Stone during his opening remarks. The growth’s not over either — Twitter says they’re still adding 300,000 users per day. Moreover, as many have speculated,

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Twitter was born in the U.S., but American users post just 30% of the tweets, a new study says. As well, English accounts for less than 44% of tweets, down from 50% in February, says the study from the Paris-based data-analysis firm Semiocast. Researchers followed the Twitter habits of users between March 21 and March 28. Japanese users accounted for 15% of messages worldwide and 95% of

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FROM 11 Points WebSiteUNgraphs on Twitter Who's Big On Twitter? - A Venn diagram breaking down different relationships between number of Twitter followers, number of people following you and number of Tweets. The Most Played Out Jokes About Twitter - Did you ever notice that the word Twitter is only a few letters away from the word twat? I noticed that while eating bad airline food,

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March 4th about 5.00pm PacificTweet #10 billion apparently belongs to a protected user, as API calls won’t allow us to see that specific status update. Via @timdorr, here is Tweet #9,999,999,999 and tweet #10,000,000,001.via mashable http://bit.ly/dv34G2

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About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.

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- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.- Facebook gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4

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JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

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New data released earlier today by web analytics firm Compete.com reveals that there has been a major shift at the top of the web charts: Facebook is now larger than Yahoo in the U.S.Yahoo for years was the world’s most popular website — its ubiquitous portal has dominated the web since the 90s. Two years ago however, Google vaulted past Yahoo and became the Internet’s most popular destination.

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A: It already is:While we can’t pinpoint an exact number, Twitter has probably around 18-25 million users worldwide. Heck, let’s say there are 30 million to be generous. Gmail has over 38 million uniques in the U.S., and that was back in September 2009. Worldwide, that number is simply larger.Yes, there are far more tweets than comments/posts on Buzz right now, but beating those engagement

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If you feel like you are getting lost in the shuffle you are not alone. Most people I talk to are trying to use between 6-10 different social sites, I say trying because when you network on multiple social sites at the same time it’s almost impossible to be effective at any of them. It’s no wonder people are lost and confused with how much time they should spend on what site, especially with new

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Just a few months ago, Twitter seemed unstoppable. We argued all the way back in August 2008 that Twitter’s growth could not be stopped. And for a long time, the numbers agreed with us. Twitter grew 752 percent in 2008, but that was nothing compared to the 1,300%+ year-over-year growth in February and March.Shaq, Oprah, Ashton and CNN all helped lead Twitter to the attention of the mainstream

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2009 was an immensely important year for Twitter. The notoriously feature-shy service was largely turned into what it is today by its users. Originally, features such as retweets and hashtags were forged by the user base, not the developers. Furthermore, third-party clients such as TweetDeck and Seesmic raced to add the features that Twitter itself was lacking.In late 2009, the folks behind

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Twitter predictions earlier this year was for Twitter to have about 18 million users by the end of 2009Although there is a slight dip in October - they have already passed 23 millionFacebook surges to nearly 129 million with the biggest growth again coming from India and China (25% increase in 3 months)By comparison MySpace dropped 65% to 59 million usersgraphs from compete.com

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from sociableblog.com1. Use it to promote new pieces of content you or your company create to drive traffic to your site. From online articles to blog posts or from videos to webinars, each time you add something to the Web that is of value, tweet about it and include a link. (Most people on Twitter use TinyURL.com to take a long URL and make it short.) 2.Use it for learning new marketing ideas,

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In December 2008 the 18- to 24-year-old age group accounted for 19% of Twitter users. In September 2009 that figure has leapt to 37% with 25- to 34-year-olds also rising swiftly from 20% to 31%.The reports said that age is a strong independent predictor for use of Twitter and other services with a status update feature. Overall, internet users age 18-44 have rapidly taken up Twitter over the past

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Comscore worldwide data says Digg, Twitter and Facebook have 32 million, 58 million and 411 million unique monthly visitors (September 2009), respectively. Google Trends says much the same thing, but the growth over time is fascinating visually. We started with Digg, then added Twitter, and then added Facebook. In the end, Digg and Twitter are just footnote blips in the chart. About a third of

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Twitter’s growth these days seems to be coming from abroad.ComScore data shows a 6.7 percent jump from August to September in worldwide vistors to 58.4 million (which translates to 949 percent increase from a year ago).The 20.9 million visitors from the U.S., in contrast, has remained flat since June.(These numbers do not include mobile or desktop usage.)Twitter’s recently announced deals with

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For full report see this link- Brian Solis - FutureworksIn the month of August, Miley Cyrus topped the charts with 256,000 mentions with Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block following with an impressive 189,000 references. Rapper Soulja Boy checked in at third with roughly 86,000 tweets, 100,000 behind the number two spot. Controversial gossip blogger Perez Hilton also earned a top spot on

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New Study from Retrevo.com The Big Enablers for the under 25sIf you want to point a finger at one of the big causes of this wave of social media addiction look no further than smartphones and other mobile devices.In the Gadgetology study only 19% of the older set (35+) use a phone as the preferred device for social media services with 81% preferring instead a desktop or laptop computer. Over on

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Your Twitter account could get suspended for one or more of these reasons User Abuse: A large number of people block the profile or write in with spam complaints. Aggressive following: Using programs out there that claim to get you 1000’s of follow in just days could get you suspended. Just remember quality is better then quantity. Misuse of the reply feature: I haven’t heard of anyone getting

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From the latest info on Twitter - here are a few facts on the Billion Dollar instrument: -As of September 1st, the actual number of live Twitter accounts was just above 50 million.Twitter's user growth is no longer accelerating. The rate of new user acquisition has plateaued at around 8 million per month.Over 14% of users don't have a single follower, and over 75% of users have 10 or fewer

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The figures for July are out and Twitter growth seems unstoppable. 51.6 million unique visitors. March was 19 million, June 44 million - so the growth grows.For those who see Twitter as a marketing/Information machine this is great news - what is even more important is the study from Rapleaf that states thosewho have large numbers of followers are the ones who are 'lifted' the most as Twitter

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The New York Times has a lengthy piece about Twitter and the teenage population, which seems to be reluctant to embark into the wonderful world of 140-character messages, hashtags and retweets. However, looking at the numbers which are the basis for the article, it seems like a wider issue, which isn’t necessarily only related to Twitter.According to comScore, only 11 percent of Twitter users are

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What Is Hummingbird? Hummingbird is a piece of software that will help you build a large Twitter list by automating the following and unfollowing of Twitter users. Over the pass two weeks, I’ve used Hummingbird to add over 10,000 followers to my Twitter account, which stood at 32,856 at the time of this post. Why would you want so many Twitter followers? Because it makes you money! Hummingbird

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An extract (via Mashable) of The Uk Governments Doc instucting the politicians on how to use Twitterfor more twitter 101-also see hereAPPENDIX AWhat is Twitter?Twitter works like this:You create an account.Your account comprises your username and password, avatar image, optional background image to display behind your pageYou find interesting people to follow, and they can choose to follow you

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What makes this site different ( and Darren has obviously put a lot of work into the site being different and truly useful from the "average' site out there) - is :- a) It didn't just have a random multi page list of twitter 'maybe' tools. He had carefully selected what he had in that site. Twitter tools that did specific jobs that make the overall a marketing machine. By tools I mean websites -

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-6138991484335090282009-07-08T09:49:00.000-07:002009-07-08T12:31:16.779-07:00

What Is Hummingbird? Hummingbird is a piece of software that will help you build a large Twitter list by automating the following and unfollowing of Twitter users. Over the pass two weeks, I’ve used Hummingbird to add over 10,000 followers to my Twitter account, which stood at 32,856 at the time of this post. Why would you want so many Twitter followers? Because it makes you money! Hummingbird

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This seems to suggest that the site (Twitter) has managed to engage a mass audience beyond those who typically engage with social media. (Sysomos)Ref: -June 2009 care of TwitterGrader. comand SysomosSummary* 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009. * 85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day * 21% of users have never posted a Tweet* 93.6% of users have

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Post by MG SieglerIn an age where we’re bombarded by tons of information, from multiple angles, all day long, there is something beautiful about brevity. Most users know by now that the 140 character limit of Twitter is actually tied to the limits of text messaging. Text messages can only be 160 characters long (Twitter needed to reserve the extra 20 characters for usernames). But do you know

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Online is a world of nearly infinite choices for ...readers, advertisers, information gathering...The difference , for news and journalists between the Internet and Hard Print Media, is the difference between scarcity and abundance.A newspaper needs a lead story, a lead page for its advertisers, and then has only a finite amount of pages it can fill.A website or a blog has almost an infinite

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Extract from AFP NEWSBy Chris Lefkow NEW YORK (AFP) — Twitter may be only two years old and not making money yet but it has definitely come of age.Just days after Time magazine put Twitter on its cover and weeks after talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey signed on as a user, Iranians turned to the service to protest the results of their presidential election and get the news out.As Iranians fired

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-76538841832616687362009-06-17T22:29:00.000-07:002009-06-18T07:36:56.920-07:00

By Skeeter Hansen and Al FerrettiThese 7 tips will show exactly how you can get the most out of your networking efforts on Twitter.1. Start by using your real name on your profile, upload a real photo of yourself and fill out your bio. Your bio is about you and not your business. People want to know they are talking to a person. Your website link will take care of your business.2. Follow people

ecom131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-14728606870272547582009-06-16T11:01:00.000-07:002009-06-17T22:35:47.655-07:00

BTW - if you want to see the amount of twitter info on Iran and 'the election' - type in #Iranelection -or just Iran into twitter searchIts not voting that is democracy - its the counting of them: Tom Stoppard1)Twitter users were posting “#CNNfail” on thousands of tweets Saturday night saying that their coverage of important news like the Iranian elections were downplayed by the cable network.2)

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Live from Tehran, it's the Twitter revolution.In the crackdown following the disputed Iranian presidential election results this weekend, the authorities shut down text messaging, blocked Facebook and YouTube and cut off the BBC Persian-language service — but they forgot about Twitter.Because of that, the simple microblogging service has become Iran's lifeline to the outside, a way for Iranians

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-13479570184852904902009-06-02T07:24:00.000-07:002009-06-02T07:36:11.732-07:00

According to the research, conducted on a random sample of about 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009, 25% of Twitter users don’t tweet at all, while 50% of users tweet less than once every 74 hours. Active users, on the other hand, tweet a lot, which makes Twitter a lot more like Wikipedia than an average social networkAlthough this may sound strange at first, Twitter really is more like Wikipedia

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-19205460808076791332009-05-22T11:46:00.000-07:002009-05-24T07:50:12.388-07:00

Twitter is Free. Twitter is everywhere . Its generates leads like crazy, its viral - - heck lets make money with it. Lets goHere's what you have to remember - the marketplace is not naive - this is not 1920. Twitter may be new (relatively) but the people who use it are savvy.So before stumbling too much read this great Post from - emailcopywriter on HubPages- he knows his stuff.Three Twitter

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-42069468736839630832009-05-20T07:53:00.000-07:002009-05-20T07:55:20.539-07:00

Post from Scott WilliamsHere is a fairly comprehensive Twitter tool list that should provide for a great resource to enhance your Twitter experience. HatTip to Online Best Colleges for compliling parts of the list. Twitter Analysis Twitter Grader: Learn your Twitter grade, your local Twitter Elite, and find new people to follow through Twitter Grader.Twitterholic: Check out the top Twitter

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from Tech Republic - Jason HinerMy name is Jason - I am a Twitter user.There’s a strange phenomenon that happens almost every time someone joins Twitter. They hate it. At least at first. But many of the people who once hated Twitter — or at least, didn’t quite get it in the beginning — are now many of its most active users and raving fans. So what’s going on here? There seems to be four natural

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The hash mark (#) before a word in a post allows you to tag that post for that word. However, in order to get tracked via a hash tag, you need to opt-in and follow http://twitter.com/hashtags. Once you’re following Hashtags, every time you make a post in Twitter and tag it with a hash mark like so: #iPhone, it will then show up as a real-time post on http://www.Hashtags.org. If you then visit

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Written by Jonathan BaileyWhen you follow people on Twitter, you are doing more than just getting their tweets, you’re also sending them a note letting them know that you are interested in what they have to say. Ideally, a good percentage of them, after looking at your profile should feel the same way and return the follow. Personally, I follow about 80% of the people who follow me. I view

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10 Lessons I’ve Learned from Twitter by Joseph DanielMay 15, 2009, 7:15 pmI have 1000 new friends, and 500 new stalkers. I’m no Aston Kutcher in terms of audience, but I’ve learned a few things during my six months on Twitter: 1. It’s less important to talk about what I had for breakfast, and better to respond to people about what they had. 2. People respond. In my travels, I have called out

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To help control spam, maintain the integrity of the network and prevent that dreaded Failed Whale from showing up too often, Twitter maintain limits on how many people you can follow and how often you can follow. For those who don’t know the limits, this post will lay them out.Maximum Following Limit: 2,000 or 110% of FollowersThe maximum number of people you can follow at any one time is 2,000

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-54901143805632509682009-05-12T19:17:00.001-07:002009-05-20T07:43:58.149-07:00

Twitter is quickly turning into the media sharing platform of choice for many people, despite the fact that it,you know, doesn’t have any actual media sharing functionality. But a variety of services are popping up to fill the need, including countless Twitter-specific sites for sharing images, music, and video.Today TwitDoc is launching what appears to be the first service for sharing documents

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from a post by Howard RheingoldOne of my students asked me online why I use Twitter. I replied off the top of my head.Openness - anyone can join, and anyone can follow anyone else (unless they restrict access to friends who request access).Immediacy it is a rolling present. You wont get the sense of Twitter if you just check in once a week. You need to hang out for minutes and hours, every day,

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-47672219717728827432009-05-09T19:06:00.000-07:002009-05-09T19:09:37.854-07:00

A rave from TechCrunchSimply put, we write about Twitter so often because right now, it matters. From news organizations to movie stars, from earthquakes to fires, from Facebook to Google — everyone seems to be talking about, to or with Twitter. In an era of mass communication, it is the latest medium. And it’s fundamentally changing the ways in which people interact with others using the web.

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function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1399435200&en=94fb0a4d5b91537b&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07basics.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('All You Need to Know to Twitter'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent('Assuming you’ve got the

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Twitter just went down. Don’t worry, it was planned. It should only be offline for about an hour today but there’s another downtime planned for Monday as well. I’m sitting here not quite sure what do with myself, as I’m sure many of you are. So I’ll go ahead a prepare a list of alternative activities for today and Monday, in order of importance/likelihood: Talk about Twitter being down on

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-10390750709568916232009-05-06T10:09:00.000-07:002009-05-07T09:10:44.734-07:00

So you're at your Home Page on Twitter -and ...what?. You have no friends?If you skipped all the 'see who's out there' pages you are at a blank Twitter page.Twitter is really a way to have a conversation with the whole world in almost real time. (and almost the whole world - the Twitter World that is growing at 3 squadrillion people a day or something - which is why Twitter freezes and crashes

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-45524276569144474612009-04-29T22:26:00.000-07:002009-04-29T22:28:40.629-07:00

from pc world Eventually, for most of us anyway, it dawns on us that Twitter is a lot more than a worldwide stream of trivial, self-promotional text bombs. And when that happens, we begin to see the beauty in Twitter's simple, terse messaging system. Used in conjunction with a good client app like TweetDeck, Twitter becomes an active massively multi-user conversation to rival any other social

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Posted by: Kenneth Yu on The Total Package Website April 28, 2009 So what’s the difference Twitter has that no other marketing medium possess? Ambient Intimacy. Let me explain. Researcher Leisa Rechelt defines Ambient Intimacy as a state where in a social media setting, users are more intimate and responsive with others - in contrast to real life.

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by Puppet Master on April 22, 2009 http://ow.ly/3yzi1. Twitter has just had the Oprah Effect As you know, Oprah is one of the most influential people on earth. Love her or hate her, her endorsements have turned otherwise obscure books into New York Times best-sellers; she is the reason why The Secret is the world-wide phenomenon it is today as opposed to a niche viral video. And now, Oprah

ecom131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194784779220740255.post-78625688697646324522009-04-27T21:26:00.001-07:002009-04-27T21:40:13.216-07:00

Twitter is the best Interenet Marketing tool to have arisen in recent times.Its fastIts directAnd its reach its unparalleled.And now because of Oprah and Ashton Kucher - its growrth is unstoppable.For instance - today April 27th Oprah has (let me look)...658,330 followers. And Ashton has 1,473,144 followers - you check when you read this. See if theres any growth there!Remember one week before

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To begin:- Twitter is a mini-blog - a blog where you can only use 140 characters (letters and spaces) to create your masterpiece.If you've been on Facebook recently its like Facebook "Whats on your Mind" without all the other stuff.Its micro-blog.Its minimalist blog.And if your blog won’t go it’s because you're over the 140 limit, edit edit edit.And if you want to add a url to

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Simply put, a Tweet is a message sent on Twitter. To send or receive a Tweet, you have to create a free account with Twitter. You also need to have friends and contacts with Twitter accounts -- otherwise you're typing to the void. Of course, you could use Twitter as a blog and keep all of your Tweets public, meaning anyone could read them on your personal Twitter profile page. But if you want to

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Removing people from your following listSometimes the following list gets a little unwieldy. Luckily it's as easy to UN-follow someone as it is to follow them. Removing someone from your following list means that you'll no longer receive their updates on the web or on your phone. To trim down your list, visit your following page to stop following more than one person at a time. Remove a

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