Monthly Archives: June 2009

An Ad Network for Twitter Publishers

There’s a lot of great services that make Twitter better but, like Twitter, most of them suffer from the fact they have no way of making money. This means these tools become public service projects or they disappear when the people who create them run out of resources, patience or enthusiasm. Enter FeaturedUsers.com, which has [...]
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Twitter: The Ultimate Customer Service Tool?

At the SES Canada conference yesterday, there was, not surprisingly, a lot of talk about Twitter. Most of it had to do with whether Twitter is truly emerging as a search rival to Google – something the SEO and SEM aficionados dismissed as unlikely. More interesting – at least to me – was the talk [...]
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The Open Conversation

Time Magazine is the latest mainstream media publication to how a story on the phenomenon called Twitter. While there’s nothing particularly eye-opening about the article, something that caught my idea was some thoughts about the “open discussion” using Twitter – the idea that thoughts at a conference, for example, could be easily shared in real-time [...]
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Who Wants to Work for Twitter?

Last week, one of the Twitter boys was talking about the company’s plans to double its workforce to 90 employees by year-end, which explains what the company is doing with all that venture capital. So, if you’re interested in working for Twitter, there seems to be a few openings, particularly if you’re a geek. They [...]
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Mahalo for Twitter?

So, how do you find the “Twitter” content? Well, there’s Tweetmeme, which has emerged as one of the places to get a snapshot of what’s attracting the most attention on Twitter, as well as trending tools offered by Twitter and TweetDeck. But what about Twitter updates hand-picked by humans, and then offered up for general [...]
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A Different View of Your Personal TwitterWorld

There’s all kinds of ways to access Twitter – whether you’re using Twitter.com, TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, Thwirl, Tweetie, TweetFon, Reportage or Monitorr. If you’re looking for something different just for a chance of pace, check out Twitter100, which shows the latest update from up to 100 of the people you follow at the same time. [...]
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