Monthly Archives: July 2009

How to Get Unfollowed

By Mark Evans | Published: July 2, 2009
There’s a lot of focus on how to get followed on Twitter but I thought it might be helpful to flip things around by providing some insight into how to get unfollowed. Write about your cat, your Starbucks addiction, the weather or how cute your children are. Update more than 15 to 20 times/day. Sure, [...]
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A Revenue Source for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 2, 2009
In checking out Twitter’s new follower/following management tools earlier this week, I also noticed a small box featuring definitions for Twitter-related words. At first, they looked like part of the service but, upon closer inspection, some of them are sponsored. Here’s a couple of examples: So, it appears Twitter is playing around the idea of [...]
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Twitter: What’s Next; the Purchase of Tweet.com?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 1, 2009
You’d think Twitter would have better things to do than deciding to make become a little more protection of its trademark over the word “Tweet” while promising it has “no intention of “going after the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter”. For a company that has [...]
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Twitter Quietly Unveils New Follower/Following Features

By Mark Evans | Published: July 1, 2009
With little fanfare, Twitter has introduced some new wrinkles to manage the people you follow and those following you. These are nice, incremental features that probably should have been introduced long ago given they’re widely available on many third-party Twitter publishing tools. For people following, there are now easy options to mention someone, send a [...]
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