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Why Twitter Is Bigger Than You Think

In early June I’ll be presenting a track keynote at Blogworld NY that updates our Social Habit research series, a randomly sampled, representative look at how Americans 12+ use social media.
http://blog.lefigaro.fr/medias/2012/03/twitter-tournee-politique-enjeux-economiques.html (photo via @Jack ) L'opération de communication a réussi. De passage en France pour quelques rendez-vous majeurs, Jack Dorsey , co-fondateur et président de Twitter , est rapidement devenu trending topic sur la plateforme mercredi.

Twitter : une tournée politique lourde d'enjeux économiques - Etreintes digitales

Blog: Twitter turns six

Six years may not be very long in human terms, but it’s been quite an enormous span for the thing we know and love as Twitter. When @jack first sketched out his notion in March 2006, no one could have predicted the trajectory of this new communication tool. Now it seems that there are as many ways to express yourself in 140 characters as there are people doing it. http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/twitter-turns-six.html
C'était la surprise du jour : le prince saoudien Al-Walid bin Talal a investi 300 millions de dollars dans Twitter et s'arroge ainsi quelques 3,75% du capital de la start-up américaine. Il devient ainsi un des principaux actionnaires individuels de la plateforme de microblogging. L'opération n'est pas très étonnante pour le prince Al-Walid, qui a précédemment investi dans des groupes médias américains dont News Corp., Walt Disney et Time Warner, et a des parts dans Apple.

Après les Russes de Facebook, les Saoudiens débarquent chez Twitter - Etreintes digitales

http://blog.lefigaro.fr/medias/2011/12/apres-les-russes-de-facebook-l.html
http://allthingsd.com/20120416/twitter-buys-startup-to-boost-revenue-engineering-team/ Twitter has "acqhired" the team behind social media analytics start-up Hotspots.io. At least three members of the start-up have joined Twitter's "revenue engineering team" to build tools for Twitter advertisers and publishers.

Twitter Buys Hotspots.io Engineering Team - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD

http://socialtimes.com/how-twitter-employees-send-their-tweets-compared-to-you-me-and-everybody-else_b57252

How Twitter Employees Send Their Tweets (Compared To You, Me And Everybody Else) - SocialTimes.com

Using Twitter’s API, Business Insider have tapped into the last few thousand tweets of the official Twitter employee list and determined the source – that is, the specific software client used to send those tweets – and crunched the numbers, and the results are pretty interesting. As you would expect, the Twitter staff member’s client of choice appears to be Twitter.com. Or, at least, ‘web’.
How much information do Twitters users disclose about themselves? In keeping with our efforts to offer insight to the fast-growing TwitterSphere, we decided it was time to see exactly how many details Twitter users are divulging. To put together our report, we examined over a billion tweets and compared to our 2009 study . To start, we looked at whether people provided personal information within their bios. The number of Twitter users offering this information has more than doubled to 63.3%, compared with 31% in 2009. As well, 82% of Twitter users now provide a name, compared with only 33% in 2009. http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/twitter-stats-2010/

Twitter Statistics - In-depth Report by Sysomos on Twitter's Growth

http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1614407/

Twitter Finally Reveals Monetization Plan: Promoted Tweets | Dan

Aside from a few small deals with Google , Yahoo, and Microsoft to integrate Twitter updates into search results, Twitter has held off announcing any kind of real monetization plan. The founders have said that they want to follow Google's path: create a product everyone wants to use, and then figure out a way to make money from it after. Today, the New York Times revealed exactly how Twitter plans to do that--at least, how they plan to start doing it.
Here are some guides to get you started: Here's a compendium of best practices for engaging and growing your audience on Twitter using the power of the TV screen . A simple integration can drive two to ten times more Tweets from your audience while your show airs. Read more → Before the web, the water cooler was the place people would meet to talk about what happened on television.

Twitter Media

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Twitter To Musicians: Tell Your Own Story | TechCrunch

As South by Southwest transforms from a massive tech party to a massive music festival, Twitter has unveiled Twitter for Musicians and Artists, a page offering tips on how musicians can use the service to connect with their fans.
It's basically impossible for a journalist who relies on Twitter to find stories, stalk editors, rack up "whuffie" and beef with rap stars to be objective about the service. Fortunately, I don't have to be, because four researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have performed a multi-part analysis of Twitter. They conclude that it's a surprisingly interconnected network and an effective way to filter quality information. In a move unprecedented in the history of academic research on Demi Moore's chosen medium for feuding with Kim Kardashian , Kwak et al. built an array of 20 PCs to slurp down the entire contents of Twitter over the course of a month. If you were on Twitter in July 2009, you participated in their experiment. Four Degrees of Separation

Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Why Twitter Is the Future

#LeWeb : Twitter se relance en misant sur la simplicité et la découverte - Etreintes digitales

Twitter a annoncé une nouvelle version hier soir. Le patron de la plateforme du service, Ryan Sarver, est à LeWeb ce matin et en raconte un peu plus. De la stratégie de Twitter. " Dans un monde où Google et Facebook sont en concurrence et rendent leur produits toujours plus complexes, Twitter veut se concentrer sur la simplicité, la rapidité, et la facilité.

CIA's 'vengeful librarian' team monitor Facebook, Twitter and report to Obama | Mail Online

At the agency's Open Source Center in McLean, a team known affectionately as the 'vengeful librarians' also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms – anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House, giving a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.