The New Twitter Effect. Twitter is mainstream. It was another week of Twitter getting mainstream media accolades as news of Osama Bin Laden taking one in the head from the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six unit lit the Social Media channel afire with chatter. Twitter's implications in breaking the news story was further amplified when it was revealed that Abbottabad, Pakistan resident and IT consultant, Sohaib Athar, unknowingly busted the Navy SEAL's cover when he tweeted, "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)" as the dramatic military operation was happening live and in real-time. Things got even more Twitter-centric when Keith Urbahn (former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's chief of staff) tweeted, "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn," nearly one hour prior to the official announcement from President Obama to the media and public.
Twitter is all about breaking news... or is it? By Mitch Joel. Tweeting Often & on Weekends is More Effective. Where is the Twitter Competition? So, Twitter reached the grand-old age of five this week. That practically makes it an octogenarian in digital-business terms. Twitter’s a bit of an odd beast really. We’ll stop short of saying it was the first microblog, but it was the first to create a real ripple across the world’s microblogging consciousness. Before Twitter, there was the likes of Anarchaia.org, which was essentially a stream of consciousness consisting of links and bite-sized chunks of information.
Following the Facebook model… Facebook may be the world’s number one social network now, but there was a much more gradual evolution towards the Facebook model, with the likes of MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn and Skype all helping to define what social networking was all about. Facebook capitalised on these other social networks to build something unique, user-focused and – eventually – profitable. Well, the real power of social networks lies in everyone (or, at least, most people…) using the same platform. Connect: Twitter Looks to Widen Appeal. Twitter As Utility, Like Running Water? One should be able to access Twitter anywhere, on any platform, and the interface should be instantly usable. So said Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in outlining the company’s vision for its future at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, going as far as to compare the service to running water.
“It needs to be water. It’s instantly useful. It’s simple. I don’t have to re-learn how to use water,” he told the audience. To that end, Costolo and the rest of the Twitter team are meeting with carriers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and platforms, to ensure that the service is integrated within the consumer experience on a great number of devices. Forty percent of all Tweets today are created from mobile platforms, Costolo said, adding that fifty percent of all active Twitter users are active on more than one platform. Costolo stressed Twitter’s intention of providing the user experience itself on these platforms, rather than ceding to other players. Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? New tools are at their most powerful, Clay Shirky says, once they’re ubiquitous enough to become invisible.
Twitter may be increasingly pervasive — a Pew study released yesterday shows that 13 percent of online adults use the service, which is up from 8 percent six months ago — but it’s pretty much the opposite of invisible. We talk to each other on Twitter, yes, but almost as much, it seems, we talk to each other about it. Often, we yell. The big debates about Twitter’s overall efficacy as a medium — like the one launched by, say, Bill Keller, whose resignation from The New York Times’ editorship some Twitterers have attributed (jokingly? I think?) To his Twitter-take-on columns — tend to conclude without much consensus. But why all the third-railiness? Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? Twitter versus “Twitter” The broader answer, sure, is that it shouldn’t matter. And speech, while we’re at it, is discursive and ephemeral and, importantly, continual. Twitter Is My Window To The Web - Interview With Pramit J Nathan | flockpost.com.
Is a New Delhi based Marketing Consultant, Trainer, Author and a B-school visiting faculty. Academically, Pramit is an Electronics graduate and Post Graduate in Management. Author of the book titled Pramit has a remarkable teaching experience as a B-School visiting faculty and extensive training experience across the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Web 2.0 (Social Media) has tasted great success just like Web 1.0. Even when e-commerce was the buzzword people talked of ‘Disintermediation’ (online businesses eliminating the middleman) but nothing of that sort happened. I may have joined the Web 2.0 phenomenon late due to my personal preoccupations but I was an early adopter of the Web 1.0 and am quite aware of the potential of New Media.
I come from a family of Academicians; my parents being PHDs in their respective fields of specialization and I feel teaching / training is in my genes. Yes if you consider our population, India’s presence on Social Media is very small. Is Twitter Massively Overrated | Social Media Marketing. Twitter Is The Heart Of Social Media. All Posts, Social Media, Technology <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
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First Charlie Sheen and now an established advertising firm, it begs the question: is Twitter #winning as the new LinkedIn? Twitter, the real time social network better known for introducing random thoughts in 140 characters or less, may just be moving into a new market: job search tool. Sheen, the troubled actor turned Twitter phenom, was the first to give the Twitter job search trend a boost earlier this month when he turned not to Careers.com, Monster.com or LinkedIn to advertise for an intern. He sent a Tweet. And 70,000 people applied to his #winning hashtag, while nearly 100,000 people clicked on the link in the first hour, AllTwitter reported at the time.
Remember Twitter's Best Assets. Twitter is facing a lot of scrutiny by the business press this week, its founding myth has been called deeply into question (news: not founded by angels) and its management characterized as dysfunctional and ineffective. Yet the Tweets keep flowing, the lists listing, the replies replying. No one has Direct Messaged me yet this morning but I'm sure that still works too. All this business scrutiny makes me want to pause and be thankful for Twitter's best assets - simple technologies too often unappreciated by a media world too accustomed to its own power to feel moved by the growing communication power users derive from Twitter.
Do users care about drama in the executive suite at Twitter? Not as long as the tech fundamentals remain functional, they don't. What are Twitter's most important assets? As a dedicated user of the service, I see three. Easy Publishing, Easy Access to Fascinating People TV stars Tweet live on TV and anyone can read those thoughts, in real time. Network Effect. Should You Censor Yourself On Twitter?