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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Why Teens Ignore Twitter
Why is it that everyone gets so excited when a new report comes out suggesting teenagers don’t use Twitter? The latest ammunition is a Nielsen report that only 16% of Twitter.com visitors are under the age of 25. Sean Moffitt provided a great list of 10 reasons that young people don’t use Twitter, and why. [...]
Machine Bots Dominate Twitter
Sysomos (a client) has published another eye-opening report on Twitter, highlighted by the fact 32% of all updates by the most active users (the 5% who account for 75% of all activity) are made by machine bots who pump out more than 150 tweets/day. As impressive is that 24% of overall activity on Twitter is [...]
An Easy Way to Find Friends
So, you get all excited about Twitter, create an account, make a few update…and then what? Of course, you need to follow some people to see what they’re saying, and join the conversation. After all, it’s difficult to have a conversation if you are the only one in the room. The challenge, however, is deciding [...]
100M Twitter.com Users by November?
If there was any doubt about Twitter’s popularity and growth, the latest numbers from comScore make it clear it is resonating with people around the world. According to comScore, Twitter.com attracted 44.5 million unique visitors in June, a 19% increase from May. Based on data from Compete, which showed Twitter had 22.9 million unique visitors [...]
Why Less (Friends on Twitter) is More
For people embracing Twitter, one of the biggest challenges is who to follow and how to find those people. The other challenge is determining how many people to follow. What’s the magic number – 100, 200, 500, 1000, 10,000, 100,000? The answer is the number can be different depending on your goals and needs. For [...]
A Day (Or Hour) Without Twitter Sucks