Support :: The Official Twitter Text Commands. A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter. If you're relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you're limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution, but if you're going to communicate original ideas, you'll need a blog (or something similar).
The most influential people on Twitter are either already celebrities, create their own content, or both. Who do you see most often retweeted? Major news outlets like CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Mashable. Guy Kawasaki. Robert Scoble. Here are a handful of the many reasons a blog gives you more control and more power: With a blog, you control the agenda, whether you're communicating on behalf of a company, or for personal reasons.
There are many popular blogging applications. A developer-hosted blog, such as a WordPress.com blog, takes just a few minutes to set up and is free for basic use with optional paid enhancements. A great application that offers nearly all of the functionality of a blog is Tumblr. Twitter opens up retweets! Have you got’em? 10 November '09, 11:17pm Follow One lucky Twitter user and Next Web reader Malcolm Coles has managed to get his hands on Twitter RT’s early. While most of us sit with baited breath, Coles has kindly shared screenshots of the new functionality with us. This is how it all looks and works. If you’re invited to join the RT beta, you see this. And here’s a new-style RT close up. When you do a RT This is what happens if you want to retweet using the new functionality. Hover over a message and you see a retweet link, bottom right: Then a confirmation appears if you click it: You then see the message in your stream, showing you retweeted it (at the bottom): And you can undo it if you want (bottom right): You also get a retweets menu item in the right hand column, which shows you a screen showing what you’ve retweeted, who has retweeted you etc.
Twitter as a Business Tool « Lauren Shild. Twitter Traffic: 3 Solutions to Twitter's Growth Problem. In the span of one up-and-down week, Twitter lost one of their most influential teen Twitterers in Miley Cyrus, and then almost immediately found new life in the tween market with the launch of the Twilight Twitter account. It may sound silly, but these 140 character pop culture dramas do matter to Twitter, because their US traffic is flat, and that's a problem. At the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this week Twitter's Co-Founder and CEO, Evan Williams, openly admitted that traffic has stalled in the US. He then went on to say that new features should help solve the problem. Likely not coincidentally, the very next day Twitter announced search deals with both Bing and Google. Those deals, coupled with the new Twitter Lists, and the roll out of location-aware tweets, make up what we deem to be Twitter's trifecta traffic strategy. 1.
Both Bing and Google have tapped Twitter to serve up real-time tweets as a part of search results pages. 2. Twitter is not your average social network. 3. Twitter Users Are An Advertiser's Dream Come True. Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The P. On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter documents and screenshots landed in our inbox. We said we were going to post a handful of them only, and we’ve spent much of the last 36 hours talking directly to Twitter about the right way to go about doing that. We’ll have more to say on that process in a couple of days. The documents include employment agreements, calendars of the founders, new employee interview schedules, phone logs and bills, alarm settings, a financial forecast, a pitch for a Twitter TV show, confidentiality agreements with companies such as AOL, Dell, Ericsson, and Nokia, a list of employee dietary restrictions, credit card numbers, Paypal and Gmail screen shots, and much more.
These are the last two documents we are going to share: a subset of the detailed notes from a set of executive meetings that took place between February 12 and June 9, 2009. Let’s start with a key strategy meeting which took place on February 25, 2009. Mother Teresa, MLK, The Dalai Lama And Twitter. All But One Have. Remember a few weeks ago when we wrote about former Deputy National Security Advisor Mark Pfeifle saying that the founders of Twitter should get the Nobel Peace Prize? Most everyone thought it was just a half-serious comment made on the fly. But it turns out, Pfeifle wasn’t joking. At all. In an op-ed today in the Christian Science Monitor, Pfeifle lays out exactly why he thinks Twitter should get the prize.
He continues, “When traditional journalists were forced to leave the country, Twitter became a window for the world to view hope, heroism, and horror. While the idea of Twitter getting the same prize that Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr. have all received may sound utterly absurd, when you think about it, it’s really not that bad of a point. Pushed By Celebrities, Twitter Is Poised To Double Its Monthly T. I know, you’re sick of Twitter data. But more keeps rolling in showcasing just how massive last week was for Twitter. The Kutcher/CNN race to a million on top of Oprah showcasing the service on Friday, likely was the biggest week ever for the service. And here’s some data to back that up. The week before the Kutcher/CNN race, Kutcher’s Twitter page got about 176,000 pageviews, according to numbers provided to us by Compete. Last week, his pageviews rose to an incredible 3.2 million — yes, that is just for his Twitter profile page. In the same time span, CNNbrk (the account racing Kutcher) went from 61,000 pageviews to over 900,000.
And Oprah, the latecomer, went from 5,000 pageviews (before she ran the account), to over 980,000 — which is perhaps even more incredible considering she made her debut on Friday of last week. Now, Compete’s numbers are sometimes quite a bit off, but the trends are the key here. The media's fake Twitter backlash begins | The Industry Sta. Will Twitter Be Acquired in 2009? You Can Bet On It. - washingto. With Oprah Onboard, Twitter Grows. Gaga-Technik: Programmierer baut erste Fototwitter-Katzenklappe. 285 Mal haben Gus und Penny seit dem 20. März ihre Wohnung verlassen. Die beiden Katzen leben in der Garage neben dem Vororthäuschen des US-Programmierers Ioan Ghip. Nach draußen kommen sie, wann immer ihnen danach ist, durch eine Katzenklappe in der verspiegelten Eingangstür auf die betonierte Einfahrt und dann raus in die Vororte von Salem in Oregon.
Im Durchschnitt schleicht jeder der Einwohner täglich 5,71 Mal nach draußen. Ioan Ghip weiß noch mehr über die Spaziergänge seiner Katzen: Gus, der puschelige schwarze Kater mit den gelben Augen, bleibt gerne länger draußen - ein paar Stunden ist er oft unterwegs. Einmal erfolgreich identifiziert, aktivieren die Funkchips nicht nur den Türöffner, sondern gleich auch eine Kamera und einen Twitter-Bot (Erklärung zu Twitter im Kasten unten), der das Katzentürfoto um einen zufällig ausgewählten Kommentar ergänzt und auf dem Mikroblog der beiden Katzen veröffentlicht. 14.
Zehn Arbeitsstunden und 100 US-Dollar fürs Material. The Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to Compete) We’ve accumulated a list of the twenty most popular Twitter applications, based on monthly unique visitor data from Compete. Twitpic, an app that lets users share photos on Twitter, took the top spot with 1,236,828 unique visitors in January. Tweetdeck, which came in second with 285,864 monthly visits, is a Twitter app that streamlines notifications and tweets. Third place went to Digsby (with 233,472 monthly visitors), an application that centralizes e-mail, IM and social networking accounts into one desktop program. With 149,812 visits, the fourth most popular app, Twitterfeed, offers to automatically tweet posts published on a user’s blog using RSS. Interestingly, two of the top twenty apps – Digsby and Hellotxt, an application that allows users to update their status across social networks – are not exclusively focused on Twitter. Jack Dorsey on the Twitter ecosystem, journalism and how to redu.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. (Credit: Joi Ito via Flickr) On Wednesday we posted the first half of an interview with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (@jack), in which he talked about the conceptual roots of the site. This is the second half of that talk. Here Dorsey speaks more about Twitter's contours as a communications medium, its evolution and how its strong suit -- so far, at least -- is in exposing the present moment, rather than the past. In the first part of the interview you talked a lot about how both the inspiration and architecture of Twitter came largely from the mobile world.
But it seems like more and more people are using it from static locations -- laptops and desktops -- where all the Web's info and tool sets are much more accessible. The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. A lot of different [geographic] markets are using SMS [text messaging] more than here in the U.S. How do you think of Twitter? I feel that it's something new. Got it. Become A Twitter Ninja. Nearby tweets - instantly find twitterers nearby (or anywhere fo. Celebrities on Twitter -- plus a few MPs and porn stars | Techno.
When The Sun followed the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and other papers in writing about Twitter, I thought the headline was just a touch misleading: Fancy a Twitter with Britney? Sure, they wanted to use a pic of Britney, but Ms Spears doesn't Twitter: she has people to do that for her. (Wanna job?) By recounting the twittering of Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry, John Cleese and others, the article might have given readers the impression that they could chat with a galaxy of stars. That's not really the case. On the other hand, I have to admit there are more than I thought, and a brief list follows. (Special thanks to @girlonetrack and @mi for contributing the largest number of names, and anon for the porn stars.) I'll expand it if there are any more. There are, of course, large numbers of "celebrity fakers" and fictional characters on Twitter as well.
Celebrity Tweeters Popular music Sport UK Politics 10 Downing Street -- @DowningStreetBoris Johnson -- @MayorOfLondon US politics Porn stars. Tweetabix. USGovernment. Home | 140it. Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys? - John Battelle's. Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008. 2008 proved to a historic year for Twitter both in adoption through the sheer number of twitter users signing up to the services, but also as evidenced by many influencers writing about using Twitter for PR, Social Media, Branding and other such purposes. With such an influx of great information, it often becomes difficult to distill signal from noise. This round up of the Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008 provides another valuable meta-list to bookmark and refer back to, as Twitter continues to grow exponentially in 2009.
Twitter-Feeds: SPIEGEL ONLINE zwitschert Ihnen Nachrichten - SPI. Microblogging-Dienst "Twitter": Botschaften aus 140 Zeichen Twitter ist eine Art Kurzmitteilungs-Abo im Internet. Wer sich auf www.twitter.com anmeldet und als Abonnent ("Follower") eines anderen Twitter-Nutzers einträgt, bekommt regelmäßig kurze Botschaften von diesem mitgeteilt - von "trinke gerade Kaffee" bis hin zu "klick' mal auf diesen Link, interessanter Artikel". Maximallänge de Textes: 140 Zeichen. Hunderttausende Menschen nutzen diese Mitteilungsplattform bereits, um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben, was ihre Bekannten gerade so treiben. Oder um zum Beispiel Surftipps mitgeteilt zu bekommen, denn jeder Nutzer kann auch Internet-Links "twittern" - wörtlich zwitschern, also seinen Followern mitteilen ( mehr zu Twitter auf SPIEGEL WISSEN...).
Was twittert mir SPIEGEL ONLINE? Auf Twitter können Sie ab sofort SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Updates abonnieren - also eine kurze Mitteilung bekommen, sobald wir einen neuen Artikel veröffentlicht haben. Alle Topmeldungen - die wichtigsten Artikel des Tages. Is There Anything Twitter Can't Do? - Digital Life Blog - I. Getting help, growing networks: Twitter | AccMan. I know many of my professional readers look at Twitter and go ‘Uh?’ That’s OK. I did once as well, casting it as a complete waste of time. In recent times the service has proven itself incredibly valuable. As always with technology, it’s not the tech itself but how it is used that delivers value. That’s both a function of the ‘extras’ you can bolt into a service and the manner in which you exploit its capabilities.
Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook - Bits Blog. For now, a marriage between Twitter and Facebook is not meant to be — but the courtship between the two Web 2.0 companies could be rekindled in the future. That was one message from Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, in a talk at the Churchill Club in San Francisco Tuesday night. Evan Williams. (Credit: Sara Morishige Williams) Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr.
Williams took over as chief executive on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. “Maybe we’ll see each other in the marketplace,” Mr. Twitter, which lets users broadcast messages of up to 140 characters via cell phone or the Web, began to take off in March 2007. Twitter has raised $20 million from venture capitalists, but has brought in virtually no revenue, choosing growth over everything else. The recession changed that strategy, Mr. Mr. The Top 5 Mistakes Internet Marketers Make on Twitter.