Oscars And Online Buzz: Is Twitter Leading The Noise?
ShareThe Oscars were on the TV and while that was unfolding I was also online monitoring the tweets coming through about the Oscars. I know the ladies out there are thinking, ” how can a male be multi-tasking”? Well I know it is hard to believe but I was, mind you it was only two [...]
Twitter's Growth Still Accelerating
ShareI recently wrote an article about whether “Twitter Was Fading” and it seems that despite some of the recent negative press, Twitter’s traffic is still pumping. Twitter’s growth from March 2008 to March 2009 was over 1300%, but since then some of the facts and figures on Twitter’s upward trajectory have been patchy. With no [...]
Automating Twitter: Is It A Crime? [Poll]
ShareThis debate continues to rage and will continue for a while yet. Do you automate some of your messages on Twitter or not? How much automation should you be using, if any at all? There are essentially three camps. Yes, Why Not Absolutely Not Sometimes Twitter is great for promotion, whether it be of your [...]
Getting Intimate On Twitter?
ShareI have enjoyed and toyed with Twitter since I first signed up in December 2008, not expecting the journey to be so transformational. For the first few months I sent the occasional tweet and connected with a few friends and watched the stream pass by. In March 2009 I started my blog inspired by the [...]
Is Google Buzz The Twitter Terminator?
ShareThere is a lot of Buzz about Google Buzz with over 9 million post and comments. It was only launched on Tuesday the 9th of February, meaning that it is getting over (according to Mashable) 160,000 comments and hits per hour! So eager to try Google Buzz, I kept checking my Gmail account and was [...]
Is Twitter Tanking? An Update
Share The lack of transparency from Twitter on its traffic including its domain and API traffic from sources such as Tweetdeck and Hootsuite are surprising and mystifying unless it’s a secret strategy by the Twitter team to keep the Twittersphere guessing. Some of the comments on my recent blog “Is The Twitter Fad Fading?” regarding this [...]
Is The Twitter Fad Fading?
ShareTwitters growth from 2008 to 2009 was nothing short of stratospheric with growth headlining at over 1,300% . Shows like Oprah and celebrity users such as Ashton Kutcher also provided popular mass media promotion that fed the Twitter craze. In 2009 it went from 5 Million users to 30 Million users in 6 months. In [...]
How To Use Twitter For Business: 5 More Incredibly Interesting Case Studies
ShareIn the last post I listed 5 Twitter case studies and how companies are using Twitter for business. Due to the popularity of the post and with over 737 views in 48 hours it seems there is slight unkempt appetite for this information. So here are 5 more companies and how they have experimented, tested [...]
Twitter: 5 Business Case Studies
ShareI am still hearing this deep and meaningful question at dinner parties, social moments and musings. “I don’t understand this Twitter thing, isn’t it just people telling their friends what they had for breakfast or did last night , what’s the point of that!” In fact, for a lot of people it is exactly that…a [...]
The Top Topics On Twitter in 2009
ShareReflecting as you do at the end of one year and at the start of the new, the hottest topics on Twitter in 2009 make an interesting snapshot of what people took time out on Twitter to send messages, start conversations and spread content. If you glance over some of the top topics on the [...]
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