Archive for July, 2010
July 31st, 2010
With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to help address that — “Suggestions for You”. The algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow. You’ll see these suggestions on Twitter.com and the Find People section. If you like a suggestion, click “follow”; if you don’t, click “hide,” and we’ll try not to suggest that user again.
In addition, you will begin to see recommendations for similar users when you view another account’s profile. If you’re interested in a particular user, you might be interested in these other accounts as well.
All these features will be available for developers, too. We will be launching an API so third parties can provide these suggestion features in your favorite desktop, mobile, and web applications, too.
Now, go find somebody new to follow. You never know what you might discover…
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July 30th, 2010
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Well, you can add blatant, overt censorship to Facebook’s list of crimes against humanity, tacking it right up there with supporting holocaust deniers and denying nipple supporters.
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July 30th, 2010
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Facebook announced this week that they were beta-testing a new feature on the massively popular social network, called "Questions." The concept is quite simple, and one that many of us are intimately familiar with. Facebook users can pose questions, which will show up not only…
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July 29th, 2010
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Breaking his one-time vow to never use the immensely popular microblogging platform, Kanye West joined Twitter today, posting forty-seven tweets in just seventeen hours and amassing over 200,000 followers – quite possibly a record in terms of Twitter follower growth.
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July 29th, 2010
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When word came down this week that the much-loathed DMCA had been reviewed and subsequently relaxed, iPhone hackers around the US rejoiced. But what exactly to the new changes mean for iPhone owners and their iDevices? In short: a much greater amount of legal freedom to tweak the…
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July 27th, 2010
This week should be a celebratory milestone for Facebook – the world’s largest social network just keeps getting larger and larger, although founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that growth has slowed in recent months. Instead of a celebratory atmosphere, though, Facebook is caught up in the midst of what may turn out to be the ugliest ownership fracas in the company’s history – andthat’s saying a lot, considering that Facebook has given lucrative ownership stakes to multiple individuals who claim that Zuckerberg copied key concepts and even code to create Facebook.
July 27th, 2010
By this point, nearly everyone working in the marketing and advertising world has at least hard of the power of so-called "Social Marketing" – leveraging the power of the "crowd" – that nameless and shapeless mass of internet users – to market a brand or a product. There are some empowering stories of amazing success – "viral" marketing campaigns, created at an incredibly low-cost, which have resulted in massive increases in business and profits for companies forward-thinking enough to use them.
July 27th, 2010
Coca-Cola became the latest company to completely screw up a social marketing attempt this week, joining the ranks of brands like Molson, Nestle and rival soft drink Pepsi, all of whom have tried in the past to leverage the awesome power of social media and viral marketing, only to see their experiments blow up in their faces. Coca-Cola’s faux pas this week is a particularly embarrassing failure, since it might very well result in legal action being taken against the company, which is accused of exposing minors to pornographic material following a Dr.
July 27th, 2010
Sarah Palin stepped in a big, steaming pile of twit this week when she made an inflammatory anti-Muslim remark on Twitter, stirring up a hornet’s nest of opposition to her radically ignorant perspective. The tweet centered on the planned construction of an Islamic mosque near New York’s "Ground Zero," the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Regarding the mosque, Palin tweeted Sunday, "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."
July 27th, 2010
We’ve been hearing the term "Apple fanboy" quite a bit lately, but that’s not surprising – every time Apple launches a new iDevice, there inevitably follows a backlash against the company by so-called "Apple haters," (in this latest case, people who actually expected their iPhone 4 to work when they hold it in their left hand) and an equally vehement outpouring of support by the aforementioned "Apple Fanboys" (in this case, people who think that you should shut up and love your iPhone 4 even when it dr