Archive for June, 2009
June 30th, 2009
Boston Globe Staff Photo by Yoon S. ByunThis article from my hometown newspaper is a great example of something we’re increasingly inspired by at Twitter. Small businesses—in this case restaurants—using Twitter as a low cost way to connect with patrons and ultimately improve profits.
What can you do with 140 characters or less, the length of each tweet? A lot, restaurants are discovering – everything from posting daily specials to luring followers with offers of free appetizers to offering a glimpse of kitchen life. It’s all good for business.
This quote is awesome, “You don’t need technology to be spreading your message on Twitter.” Well, you do need a bit of technology but not that much, it’s true. With a chalkboard and a mobile phone you can boost business. Is your favorite restaurant on Twitter?
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June 29th, 2009
It’s been a rough week for celebrities. With last week’s passing of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and Billy Mays, Twitter has been slammed with RIP messages and general discussion about the life and times of some of the world’s most famous celebrities. Sprinkled in with the…
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June 25th, 2009
Lately, it seems like just about everyone wants to tell you the RIGHT way to use Twitter. They want to tell you how often you should tweet, what services and applications you should use, what kinds of people you should follow and how you should go about getting your own Twitter followers.
Thing…
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June 25th, 2009
After long years of speculation, it seems that Twitter has FINALLY given some details on how they plan to make money from what has become arguably the world’s second-largest social network. As more and more third-party services have cropped up to fill in the blanks between the demands of Twitter…
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June 23rd, 2009
Trends come and go – that’s the nature of them. One of the great things about Twitter is that they show on, on the homepage and accessible through the Twitter API, the top ten “trending” topics on Twitter. Sometimes the trending topics are hashtags, and sometimes they’re just words that keep…
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June 22nd, 2009
If you’ve been on Twitter anytime in the last week, you’ve probably noticed more and more green twitter avatars showing up in people’s tweets. That’s because people who support the protests over the disputed elections in Iran, and who support Iran in general, are turning their Twitter avatar icons…
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June 21st, 2009
You might ask what a post about government matters is doing on a social media site. Well, as a social media and Internet user, it is important for us to know about this.
The NSA is routinely examining large volumes of American's domestic domestic email messages without court warrants. …
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June 20th, 2009
Anyone who uses Twitter a lot knows that downtime happens – in fact, it’s predictable. Twitter takes the site down frequently to perform scheduled maintenance, which can take anywhere from one to three or four hours. Twitter always schedules these updates to occur when their largest user base, the…
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June 19th, 2009
Anyone who uses Twitter a lot knows that downtime happens – in fact, it’s predictable. Twitter takes the site down frequently to perform scheduled maintenance, which can take anywhere from one to three or four hours. Twitter always schedules these updates to occur when their largest user base, the United States, is mostly asleep.
June 19th, 2009
Every day there are more and more “get followers” quick schemes floating around Twitter. We see them tweeted in our friends’ feeds, we see them on Twitter-based websites; in fact, we see them just about anywhere that there’s a place to advertise them.
The thing is, as the more astute of you may already have guessed, those “get followers fast” schemes tend to work out about as well as those “get rich quick” schemes do – because at their core, they’re really not very different.