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Twitter CEO: Country-Specific Advertising Coming Early 2011. Dick Costolo, former COO and now #newtwitterceo, told The Telegraph in an interview that he and the rest of the company’s shareholders are shocked – shocked! – that anyone even dares suggest they just might be open to selling Twitter. Ok, those aren’t his exact words, but he denies claims that his promotion means that the company is being prepped for a sale, and that both he and co-founder Evan Williams have gone that road before (having both sold a company to Google) and are not looking to repeat that particular trick.

What else is he going to say, really? Anyway, now that we’ve established that Twitter wants to take over the world independently, here are in-my-humble-opinion more interesting nuggets of news from the interview: you can expect to see country-specific ads on Twitter as from “early next year” and the company subsequently plans to expand with offices in other parts of the world.

Login | Tweetstream. 30+ More Ways to Create Twitter Groups. Earlier this year we showed you how to create groups for Twitter. While the post is still a valuable resource, we've definitely seen a few new tools pop up that are also worth a look. When it comes to Twitter groups, you're probably either interested in ways to communicate with a distinct set of users, or following a group of tweets based on Twitterer, topic, or hashtag. We've identified and separated out the web, desktop, and mobile apps that help you satisfy the group function of your choosing. Participate in Public or Private Twitter Groups If you're looking to create Twitter groups that allow for public or private communication between multiple Twitterers, you've definitely got a few choices. Twitter4Groups: The most basic of the bunch. GroupTweet: If communicating privately with a select group of Twitter individuals is your goal, than GroupTweet is your platform.

Tweetworks: Another great group site for public or private groups. Apps to Form People or Hashtags Groups. 25 Fast Facts About Twitter in the Workplace - Business Intelligence. Driving Business Success With Technology Business Intelligence / 25 Fast Facts About Twitter in the Workplace 25 Fast Facts About Twitter in the Workplace 0 3 Google +0 0 Twitter devotees are taking over the workplace, 140 characters at a time. The wildly popular microblogging site with the funny name and the celebrity cred has gone from curiosity to the mainstream in just a couple of years, and these days it's about much more than keeping up with the latest from Ashton and Kanye.

Tweeting has made it easy for workers to update colleagues, partners, and customers about the latest marketing campaigns, hiring happenings and other important company messages. Twitter also provides companies with an invaluable tool for listening to customers as they talk back and talk amongst themselves.

Business Value Drivers in Digital Commerce: Key Capabilities for Growing Revenue Download Now 1 of 26 25 Fast Facts About Twitter in the Workplace 1. Prev next Submit a Comment Manage your Newsletters: Login Register. Social Media in the Classroom - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com. Social media websites are becoming a part of every day life. It is only natural that this tool would find its way into more than just the extracurricular portion of our activities.

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been used in a classroom to enhance learning. There are however benefits and drawbacks to using social media in school. Benefits 1.) If a student is absent of school for any reason they may still be able to get their homework finished. If it is posted on a social media site such as Facebook then they will be able to see the assignment and complete it on time. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

Drawbacks 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) Social Media Sites and School Social media sites can be a great tool for teachers if used correctly. Malware aimed at social networks may steal your reality. Computer scientists warn there is a new malware lurking in the distance that will slowly steal your reality by mining your social network for private and behavioral patterns. A victim of a "behavioral pattern" theft cannot easily change his or her static behavior and life patterns. The experts predict it's "inevitable" that malicious attackers will attempt to craft Stealing Reality malware that will be much more dangerous and much harder to detect than tradition malware attacks.

Communication patterns combined with behavioral data can be harvested from mobile devices. Private data is already being mined and marketed. If you are active and have influence in a social network, then your information is very valuable . . . especially to a new breed of malware on the horizon. The email address of a person who is at the center of a vibrant social network is more valuable than an email address of a person on the edge of a social network. Here is the Stealing Reality pdf paper. Washingtonians love to tweet - Washington Business Journal. Washington ranks No. 12 on a list of the nation’s most social media-savvy cities, but the region ranks third in the nation for Twitter use by its business people.

The study, conducted by NetProspex, based its Twitter-savvy rankings on the average number of Twitter accounts, tweets and followers. New York and San Francisco ranked as the top two Twitter towns in the nation. Sacramento and Phoenix round out the top five. The report also ranked cities on overall social media use by companies. Washington’s No. 12 ranking put companies here behind those in cities that include Boston, Seattle and Denver in use of social networking for business promotion. The top social media cities were San Francisco, San Jose and New York. The extensive report also focuses on which types of employees, executives and industries are more likely to be actively using social networking, and which companies make the most use of social networking to connect with customers.