Monthly Archives: July 2009

Twitter: Show Me the Revenue (Stream)!

By Mark Evans | Published: July 16, 2009
As TechCrunch negotiates with Twitter about its decision to publish internal Twitter documents, details have emerged about Twitter’s financial forecasts. According to TechCrunch, Twitter expects revenue of $400,000 in Q3, $4-million in Q4 and a $140-million run-rate by the end of 2010. Twitter also expects to have 25 million users by end of 2009 – [...]
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Bing Launches Twitter Search Engine

By Mark Evans | Published: July 15, 2009
Bing, flush with a strong launch in the search market, has come out with a Twitter search engine. First impression: I don’t like it because it’s not solely a Twitter search engine but a combo-search engine that produces results for the Web and Twitter. Rather than Twitter search results being front and centre, they appear [...]
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Twitter’s Killer App: Customer Service

By Mark Evans | Published: July 15, 2009
When I’m talking to clients about whether they should use Twitter, one of the most effective pitches is how it can be used to offer better customer service tool. As we’ve seen from companies such as Dell and Comcast, Twitter can be a great way to deal with problems and complaints, while providing advice, help [...]
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The Tone of the Talk on Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: July 14, 2009
Within the social media analytics world, sentiment (aka the tone of the conversation) is an increasingly important metric to determine whether people are talking about your company, product or brand in a positive negative or neutral way. tweetfeel jumped into the sentiment spotlight with a post on TechCrunch about how tweetfeel “evaluates real-time tweets about [...]
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Video Comes to Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: July 14, 2009
While Twitter fiddles, there’s some innovative things happening within the Twitter ecosystem. A good example. is TwitVid, which just launched a service that lets you record videos, and then upload them and an update to Twitter using the new iPhone 3GS. Better yet, TwitVid comes from Canada. It was created by Mo Adham and Adil [...]
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twitdone Takes To-Do Lists to Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: July 13, 2009
As you can appreciate, I look at an awful lot of Twitter-related services – most of which are quickly dismissed because they’re simply not interesting, compelling, useful, valuable or interesting. But once in a while, you run into a Twitter service that makes stands out. Case in point is twitdone, which takes the popular to-do [...]
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