Twitter

Dissecting Twitter. The future looks bright for Twitter.

After attending an informal press meeting with Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, its current statistics and revealed strategies seem to focus primarily on revenue and monetization rather than the addition of new features to the platform (if it’s not broken, why fix it, right?). The move appears to be taking Twitter along the correct path, as things only seem to be looking up for the private SF headquartered company. One of the ways Twitter measures its growth is in tweets sent per day. One year ago, users were sending 50 million tweets per day. In February of this year, this jumped to 140 million tweets sent. What do current results look like? As mentioned previously, Twitter measures its growth in several different ways. Statistics as of September 8, 2011 are as follows. In comparison to earlier this year, tweets per day are up 110%, while monthly active users has increased by 82% since January 1st.

Let’s examine this further. A Visual History of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organization’s goals.

Since its launch in the summer of 2006, Twitter has become the leader in microblogging, limiting even its most famous users to a concise 140 characters. This infographic details Twitter's most influential content creators, staggering adoption rates, and struggle to turn a profit. Curious about The Biebs' first tweet? Wondering which event caused the latest tweets-per-second record? Scroll on down for a bird's eye view (see what we did there?) Infographic design by Emily Caufield Series supported by Vocus This series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free online tool which lets you build your own custom social media framework in six easy steps.

Twitter-Mining Captures Global Mood Patterns. Hourly changes in average positive (top) and negative (bottom) affect, arrayed by time (X-axis) and day (color).

(Golder et al. /Science) An analysis of mood patterns distilled from half a billion tweets has produced a civilization-scale picture of how moods rise and fall in tandem, over time and across the world. The details seem intuitive: positive feelings peaking in the morning, dipping during work and rising at day’s end; negativity accumulated over the workweek dissipating late on Friday afternoon. But they’ve proved surprisingly tricky to measure.

“There’s a whole generation of lab work that’s been inconclusive,” said sociologist Scott Golder of Cornell University, co-author of the tweet analysis published Sept. 29 in Science. Many studies of how moods — or, more technically, positive and negative affect — change from minute to minute and day to day rely on self-reported surveys, which can be inconsistent if not misleading. Twitter users, of course, don’t represent humanity either. Topsy Experts 各領域Twitter行家搜尋引擎，誰值得你follow？ Twitter到底可以在我們獲取資訊、情報、觀點上提供哪些巨大的幫助，我想長期閱讀電腦玩物的朋友應該都看過我的心得推薦（例如：Twitter List + HootSuite如何獲取眾聲喧嘩裡的有效網路即時訊息）。

善用Twitter的方法中很重要的一點就是善用Twitter內容搜尋，而善用Twitter內容搜尋中目前最好的工具就是「Topsy」。 前幾天，這個比Twitter官方搜尋更加優秀的服務，推出了一個新功能：「Topsy Expert Search」。 Topsy Expert Search，我姑且將其翻譯成「Twitter行家搜尋引擎」。 在Twitter上，如果講到資訊的實用性，那麼最有價值之處就是各領域行家的Twitter內容，有時候可能透漏業界祕辛、有時候可能傳播即時新聞、有時候可能提出針砭議題的觀點，而這都是你在傳統媒體，甚至部落格網站中看不到的。 我把Expert翻譯成「行家」而非「專家」，是因為專家感覺聽起來有一種身分家世的權威，但行家則更貼切的體現出Twitter上那種跨界的、解構的、不世出的天才靈光。 Topsy Expert Search： 誰是「對你來說」真正值得follow的對象？

我們都知道現在註冊Twitter流程中，就會接獲到「推薦follow」的名單，而有些第三方服務也會推薦各種主題下值得follow的對象。 因此，我在之前的「如何獲取眾聲喧嘩裡的有效網路即時訊息」一文也已經提到，我們應該善用「搜尋關鍵字」來找出「對自己來說」值得關注的對象：重點不在於他是不是名人，而在於他有沒有講出對你有價值的話語內容，所以搜尋「微訊息」本身才能找到真正值得follow的對象，而非只看對方的人氣如何。 Topsy Expert Search的設計原理亦是如此。 Twitter 五歲，與讓我更愛用Twitter的五個社群即時資訊追蹤工具. 你可以不用 Twitter ，但不可不知如何挖掘 Twitter. 或許還是有朋友無法習慣微網誌（Twitter、Plurk）的使用模式，但現在的問題已經不僅僅是你要不要、喜不喜歡用微網誌？

還要加上你是否能利用Twitter或Plurk等微網誌累積的訊息量來做些什麼？ Twitter 中文版登場，開始上手新社群媒體的10個步驟. 之前我常在電腦玩物中推薦Twitter時，一些朋友對於無法上手Twitter的疑惑，主要來自於之前的Twitter網站只有英文介面。

而在啟動社群翻譯計畫後，Twitter今天終於針對華人用戶推出了繁體、簡體中文版，台灣、香港、澳門等地的用戶登入註冊Twitter時，就可以看到繁體中文的Twitter。 因為Twitter的翻譯是採用社群編輯投票制度，有興趣的朋友都可以透過「Twitter翻譯中心」一起幫忙完善內容，目前整個介面的中文化程度非常高，至於一些用語上的喜愛與否，後續都可以繼續透過翻譯中心的社群力量完善它。 其實目前幾個知名的社群網站都有獨特的定位，如果說Facebook是最緊密的朋友圈交流中心，那麼Twitter就是最快速的訊息傳播中心。 Twitter關注的重點在於「資訊」，用戶與用戶之間的關係網絡在Twitter中的意義是：「資訊報導、傳播的通路」，Twitter為世界建立起一種「元新聞」形式，你可以在這邊關注最素樸，最少修飾但最多真誠與最即時的資訊內容。