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Logic+Emotion: Twitter's Ghost In The Machine
This morning I woke up to something a bit odd. Around 20 people had sent out nearly identical messages linking to my Twitter page. I have no idea how it happened—I also heard from one user that they were getting DM's (private direct messages) with links to my blog. Also, no idea why or how. Twitter is known to be very buggy at times and incidents like this tend to happen. Here's a couple of things I noticed.
Use Twitter to Find Customers -- Twitter -- TweetDeck -- monitte
Most businesses think of Twitter as a promotional tool, but it can also be used to find sales leads. Boloco , a burrito restaurant chain with 16 locations often runs ads in a Boston newspaper. The ads contain coupons for the chain’s popular burritos for a special price of $3. It makes sense to advertise in Boston, since 13 of the chain’s 16 restaurants are there, but CEO and co-founder John Pepper wished the ads could also bring customers to Boloco restaurants in New Hampshire and Vermont. So, when he ran one recent ad, Pepper also posted a photo of the coupon on Twitter, inviting diners to bring in any image of the coupon -- a photocopy, printout, or even an image on a mobile phone -- to get the discount.The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated.
Micro Persuasion: Bring Twitter Right Into Gmail with the Amazin
Stephen's the ultimate fan but Hugh still bemused by Twitte
Though he describes his friend Stephen's comments on micro-blogging site Twitter as "the cream of the crop", in general Hugh Laurie finds posts from the rest of his circle rather banal Kingdom actor Stephen's Twitter page gained a widespread following after he posted a picture of himself stuck in a lift and Twittered his way through the hour-long enforced incarceration, which made headline news While celebs like Demi Moore and Hugh Laurie 's pal Stephen Fry are Twitter enthusiasts, the House star has revealed he's baffled by the obsession with the micro-blogging site. Speaking on BBC radio the 49-year-old actor said that although he has his own page on the site, he is "bothered by the social cost of every tweet". "As I look around my friends' tweets I see banality on all sides. I don't understand the purpose of it," he admitted.
This second thread is interesting because of the number of interesting news sources linked to by various people. Don’t miss the photos and videos. Great examples of photojournalism. ReadWriteWeb wrote a good post to CNN .
The day Twitter kicked CNN’s behind & @ev bought m
The deluge of information from 24-hour news, mobile phones, emails and social networking sites such as Twitter moves too fast for the brain's 'moral compass' to process, two studies suggest. Twitter, where people post short updates about their lives for friends to view, has soared in popularity thanks to celebrity users such as Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross. It has about 10million patrons worldwide. People are becoming so over-loaded with technology and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, that they are losing the ability to think compassionately, research reveals If brains become numbed by the stream of digital information, then people could lose the ability to feel altruism or sympathy for others, researchers claim.
How the Twitter age of rolling information has 'robbed fans
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15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends
One of the great things about Twitter Twitter reviews is that it is a great place to track emerging trends. When major events or big stories occur, people tweet about it and it inevitably ends up at the top of Twitter Search as a top trend.Words are flying out like / Endless rain into a paper cup / They slither while they pass / They slip away across the universe. These words are from the 1969 Beatles song "Across the Universe," first released on the album No One's Gonna Change Our World . They also make a good description of the e-mails, blog posts and social media updates that fly, slither and slip by every day, most recently--for me and millions of others--via Twitter. The song became a hit roughly at the same moment Americans were watching their first televised war, up close and in their living rooms.
Information Is Overrated - Forbes.com
Twitter in Active Moms Magazine I love when I see businesses who are using social marketing to its fullest potential. I particularly love to see them incorporating their social media marketing into their offline promotions. It is fun to see things I had not yet thought of. I will typically write these strategies down and keep them in my bank of ideas that I think are cool, because I know at some point I might be using the same technique for myself or a client.