Screencasting. ReTweets Change Everything. I spend a lot of time working on ReTweets, mostly because I believe them to be one of the most important developments in modern communications, extending far beyond the Twittersphere. “Ideas shape the course of history.” -John Maynard Keynes Ideas have been spreading from person to person for thousands of years; contagious ideas form the very foundation of human culture and history.
Like “The Matrix” was composed of computer code, the real world is made of infectious information. Your chair, your desk, the computer you’re reading this on, the food you’ll eat today, the money you’ll earn; they all began as ideas jumping from person to person. For the last few millennia people have been telling each other about which god to believe in and which laundry detergent works best. “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” Contagious ideas are the most powerful force in our world. ReTweets change all of this. Did Twitter Really 'Outshine' the Mainstream Press?
We love Twitter just as much as any tech bloggers -- that should be clear to anyone who has read this blog over the past six months. But stories like this one from the AFP are a bit rankling. Writing about how Twitter had news of this week's deadly China earthquake as it happened, the AFP implies that this is a case of "micro-blogging outshining mainstream news. " Outshine, as in "to surpass in splendor, ability, achievement, excellence" (Dictionary.com), is not something that I think Twitter did to the mainstream press.
And the bigger issue: they're not in competition. The only thing Twitter does better than the traditional news is speed. Twitter did indeed have news of the China earthquake before the press -- and that's not the first time it has beaten the press to a major story. Twitter reporting looks like this: "I felt an earthquake" -- "WOW: was that an earthquake?? " Twitter is great because it is distributed -- it puts eyes and ears on the ground everywhere. A Brief History of the Status Message. Every time you change your status on instant messenger or send a tweet, you're taking advantage of the simplicity and power of status updates. How did status updates begin and how have they evolved since their first iterations? For a brief historical analysis of how the status update as we currently know it has evolved from an early form of instant messaging in the 60s to the multifaceted, rich-media update of today, we'll take you back in time and highlight some of the important milestones as short-form messages transitioned from static to status.
This post is part of a Mashable mini-series providing analysis of social media’s smallest big trend: the status update. The series is supported by the TurboTax SuperStatus Contest, which invites you to win up to $25K for an interesting Twitter or Facebook message. A Look Back The rise of the status update in popularity has been a long time coming. Before you could tweet, update your FacebookFacebook reviews The Facebook Boom search on steroids. Got Twitter Clout? New Tools Rate You - CIO.com - Business Techn. CIO — How influential are you on Twitter? That's what several sites are now promising to judge, labeling you by doing everything from calculating your "social capital" to knocking you for a "low Twitter efficiency. " These Twitter ranking sites vary in how calculations are made—some basic sites rely solely on the number of tweets, retweets and followers, while others use more complicated algorithms to determine results.
Many Twitter users flock to these sites for an ego boost, or to gauge how they compare with their peers, says Dan Schawbel, a personal branding expert and author of Me 2.0. But these rankings also offer an interesting peek into what you can do to be more present on the microblogging site, he says. Here are my picks for five useful Twitter ranking sites, and a look at how each one determines your worth, rank and influence. 1. 2. Continue Reading. Is Twitter a Mental Vacuum? When we talk to our less technologically-inclined friends about Twitter, we often run across the objection that they really don't care what so-and-so ate for lunch today or what movie they are seeing tonight.
And every time, we try to extol all the other benefits of the world's most popular microblogging service. But could we be wrong? Is Twitter mostly people talking about themselves and what they ate for lunch? Well, SemanticHacker, the blog of contextual ad platform Textwise, has crunched some numbers and we may have to eat our hat. Parlez vous Twitterspeak? The blog used Twitter's streaming API to gather nearly 9 million tweets from over 2 million individual users. Before looking at the data for meaning, the company first took a look at the language distribution of their sample. What We're A-Twittering About The folks at SemanticHacker then took a random sample of 1,000 English-language tweets and broke them down into eight categories.
Maybe it isn't as bad as it looks, though. Be Honest: What's Your Real Twitter and Facebook ROI? A visualization of Twitter activity during the MTV Video Music A. Lo que no sabes de Facebook y Twitter. Estoy preparando unas presentaciones/charlas que tengo la semana que viene y me encontre con un monton de información que quisiera recopilar para vosotros y que de seguro os pueda servir para algo.
Empiezo por el bueno y querido amigo Facebook… Facebook - Ya somos mas de 300 millones de usuarios. En España 6.992.000 millones. . - El mayor crecimiento se encuentra en usuarios de 35 años, y el siguiente de 35 años hacia abajo. - La media de amigos por usuarios es de 130 (antes era de 120). - Mas de 6 billones de minutos se pasa el mundo al dia en Facebook. . - Se actualizan al dia mas de 40 millones de status al dia. . - Mas de 10 millones de usuarios se hacen fan de una pagina de producto /Celebrity cada dia. . - Se suben mas de 2 millones de fotos al mes.
. - Mas de 14 millones de videos se suben cada mes.Ya consideramos Facebook como una herramienta indispensable en nuestra generacion de contenido en video. - Mas de 2 billones de informacion (contenido, links, notas, etc) se suben cada semana. 7 Amazing Twitter visualizations. The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook. When did you join Twitter? Alejrozitchner. Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbo.
Trendistic - see trends in twitter. Twitter in Plain English (Subtitulado) Why I Don’t Use Twitter. A Manifesto I believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. I’m less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still, since I’m coming down to the TechCrunch 50 conference in a few weeks, and will likely be the only person attending who does not use Twitter, I felt I should furnish an explanation. Now, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been waiting for a chance to express myself on this (which may be why it is so very long (though my parenthetical style of writing shares the blame)), but it seems relevant enough and the timing is right. Tweets have no value What is a tweet?
To proceed: the “this context” I mentioned above is simply that tweets are broadcast indiscriminately. But the tweet can have a link in it, of course, which makes it more versatile — except links are subject to the same value reductions as simple text. So there you have it. It’s incomplete It’s pure vanity. Diseccionando a los usuarios más activos de Twitter :: ABADIA DI. Tori's Eye. 6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations.
Ah, Twitter. It's impossible to get away from it; it seems that everyone stopped whatever they were doing B.T. (before Twitter) and switched to doing cool stuff for and around the service, and this includes data visualizations. In the past, we've profiled unique Twitter-related visualizations, but now we're after sheer beauty. And that's exactly what we've found; here are six gorgeous Twitter visualizations.
Know of a beautiful Twitter visualization? 1. Although it's a bit too slow for everyday usage and functions better as pure eye candy, Social Collider is actually quite an interesting tool. 2. Just Landed is a beautiful geo-visualization of tweets containing the words "Just landed in... ". 3. In its exploration of Twitter, Twistori goes back to basics: to what we love, hate, believe, think, feel and wish. 4. Twitt3D would have been much better looking if it weren't for the shabby overall page design, but it's still a very interesting visual tool. 5. 6. Honorable mention - TweetWheel. Movilsur » Twitter: 10% de los usuarios genera el 90% del conten.
Twitter: 10% de los usuarios genera el 90% del contenido. Por Nicolás Falcioni El 10% de usuarios que más utiliza Twitter, genera el 90% de los mensajes o tweets que se envían en la red social según un nuevo estudio realizado por la Harvard Business Review. Con una muestra de 300 mil casos estudiada en mayo de este año, el informe sostiene que un usuario contribuye muy rara vez con la red de microblogging, y que más de la mitad de estos sólo escriben mensajes una vez cada 74 días. El estudio señala que en una típica red social en línea, el 10% de los usuarios producen el 30% del total del contenido, pero Twitter se asemeja más a lo que pasa en Wikipedia, la enciclopedia digital en la que el 15% de los más activos editores, generan el 90% de las ediciones.
Otros datos aportados por el informe señalan que el número de usuarios hombres se asemeja al de mujeres, y que ambos sexos producen un número equivalente de tweets, pero la diferencia está en el grado de seguidores. No hay comentarios. What the Heck is Twitter? - Articles - Baekdal.com. There is a bazillion articles and videos, trying to explain what Twitter is all about. There is also a ton of surveys, most noticeable a recent one telling you that only 10% of all Twitter users actually post tweets on their own.
But here is the thing... They are all giving people the wrong ideas! Twitter has changed tremendously since it was first invented. At first it was merely a place where you could tell people "what you are doing", like when you told people that you were "sitting at Starbucks having coffee". But that is not what Twitter is about anymore. Twitter is not a traditional social network. So what the heck is Twitter? Well, Twitter is... a place where you can follow interesting people You can follow business leaders, trendsetters, people who invent stuff, or create things. You follow what they think, what they do, what they find, what they like you to see, and how life is working out for them.
It is a place where you can follow companies or communities This means that... El ecosistema de Twitter. New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Convers. By Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski | 2:15 PM June 1, 2009 Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter’s purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool? We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. Our findings are very surprising.
Of our sample (300,542 users, collected in May 2009), 80% are followed by or follow at least one user. By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks’ members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Even more interesting is who follows whom. 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter. Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important ways to share information quickly, easily, and instantly over the web. Users and developers have found a lot of innovative ways to pack a ton of utility into just 140 characters, including sharing images, sharing video, and sharing documents. What about music? Turns out, there are plenty of ways to share tunes on Twitter as well. Below are ten of the best ways to tweet about what you're listening to.
If you know of any other ways to share music on Twitter that we should be aware of, please let us know in the comments. 1. Tinysong is a very basic URL shortener for music powered by P2P music sharing service Grooveshark. 2. If you want a more complete integration between Grooveshark and Twitter, you'll want to check out Twisten.fm. 3. Song.ly is a Twitter music sharing service powered by the Russian media search engine Tagoo. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. imeem 10. Qué NO ES Twitter explicado en 5 minutos. The Journalist's Guide to Twitter. Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on . Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands. The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite style reporting. I talked with some reporters about Twitter and how they use it.
Twitter enhances reporting Jason DeRusha, who’s @derushaj on Twitter, a reporter at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, uses Twitter daily as part of is his job. DeRusha uses it specifically to crowdsource stories and promote his work. He often puts his questions on Twitter at the start of the day, and then his followers (more than 2,200) help him come up with angles, or chime in with their opinions.
DeRusha’s first Twitter success story was in late 2007. Twitter tools Muck Rack is a site compiled of real-time Twitter activity by journalists. Tracking tweets. Short and Tweet: Attention Grabbers on Twitter Share Universal W. The whole world is on Twitter. Yawn. Tweets, people will tell you, rot our brains. They ruin our attention spans, inflate our egos. Maureen Dowd would rather be eaten alive by ants than be Twittering, or so she said in a recent column.
So let's keep this thesis statement short, shorter than the 140 characters allowed by the micro-blogging service: @Naysayers: Twitter is more complex than it looks. It might even be art. Almost everyone appears insanely boring on Twitter. This is because the question Twitter asks its approximately 7 million users is, What are you doing? They're waiting at the DMV. Ashton Kutcher, the much-heralded Twitterer with the most followers -- approaching 2 million -- is no exception. "We are in the middle of a tornado watch," he, as aplusk, tweeted recently, waiting for production to resume on a film set. Here's something odd: There are some non-celebrities who amass giant followings. The 100 most mentioned brands on Twitter - Brand Republic News - 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools. Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable.
But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we've picked out five great tools to get you started. For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month's article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. 1. Trying to figure out how often you're actually tweeting? Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter 2. Trendrr is a new favorite among analysts looking to keep track of trends and compare information.
Ideal for: tracking Twitter search, comparing information 3. If you're looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. 4. 5. Servicios de Estadísticas para Twitter ¿cómo gestionar la conver. "Twitter no es una red social sino una herramienta de comun. 6 Unique Twitter Visualizations. Twitter se traga tu PageRank. What is Twitter’s Vision? SayTweet: Your Twitter badge, your picture - Upload, Tag, Share. Las 5 etapas de la aceptación de Twitter. TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world. Twitter moms. Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Appli. Blip. Journalism.co.uk :: How to: master Twitter, if you're a jou.