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Monthly Archives: May 2009
TweetBucks: A New Way to Monetize Twitter
While Twitter toils away on creating premium services to generate revenue, there’s a growing number of players looking to make money from Twitter’s 30 million or users. Some of them are blatant such as pay-per-Tweet, while others are selling third-party services that enhance Twitter’s functionality. A new player within Twitter monetization landscape is Tweetbucks, which [...]
How Many Users Does Twitter Really Have?
I noticed some chatter about how many people are using Twitter after the Wall St. Journal published a story suggesting Twitter now has 32.1 million, compared with 1.6 million a year ago. According to Compete.com, Twitter had 19.4 million unique users in the U.S. in April. This means Twitter has 13 million users in other [...]
Topsy Spins Search on its Head
After three years in development, Topsy has finally launched…and it’s a search engine that actually lives up to the hype. Topsy generates results based on how many times a search term is mentioned on Twitter. The idea is that if something attracts a lot of Tweets, it must be interesting or relevant. What makes Topsy [...]
Analyzing Your Twitter Habits
Have you ever taken a step back to see what you actually do on Twitter? TwitterFriends is an interesting service that provides a high-level analytical snapshot about your Twitter activity. It provides graphs on who you respond to, who responds to you, a “TwitGraph” and rankings of your Twitter behaviour compared with the average Twitter [...]
Twitter: Masters of the Media Spotlight
If you’re at all interested in Twitter, Danny Sullivan’s blog post and video clips of an interview done with Biz Stone are a must-read and must-watch. While there’s room for plenty of commentary about Stone’s views on real-time search, SMS and advertising, what struck me is how Twitter has done such an impressive job of [...]
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