Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Emergence of Twitvertising

Note: This post originally appeared on Mark Evans Tech. Here’s the thing about Twitter: it has huge potential to become a lucrative advertising platform – something that Twitter has continually resisted, although its resolve may be weakening (or disappearing) based on recent comments by COO Dick Costelo. There’s a great story in today’s New York [...]
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A Way to Cheat With Follow Friday

Follow Friday (aka #followfriday or #ff) is a great way to give a public shout out to people who you know, do business with, or simply enjoy their work, blog posts or tweets. A problem with Follow Friday is that it happens on, well, Friday, when you’re fried by a long week of work. Unless [...]
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What’s Happening? Huh?

The oh-so-mysterious Twitter threw everyone a strange curveball tonight with some big news: It’s changing it’s tagline from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” In a blog post, Biz Stone said: Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” [...]
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RIP: Twitter’s Suggested Users

It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users. The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes [...]
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Measuring Your Importance on Twitter

Earlier today, I stumbled across a really interesting Twitter service called TweetLevel, which was created by Edelman that “measures an individual’s importance on Twitter”. TweetLevel determines your importance by using four metrics: influence, popularity, engagement and trust. Here’s how each metric is defined: - Influence: A combination of the number of posts made, and the [...]
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