Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Year in Twitter – Month by Month

Oh, what a year for Twitter – more than a six-fold increase in the number of unique visitors in the U.S. to 22.4 million. Who knows, maybe Twitter will even have a business plan in 2010. For anyone interested in the month-by-month account of Twitter in 2009, check out this BBC News story.
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What’s In Your Twitter Toolbox?

For many of us, Twitter has become an integral part of our professional and personal lives. And for most people in this group, there’s a lot more to Twitter than Twitter.com, which only features a few bells and whistles. Here’s what’s in my Twitter toolbox: 1. Tweetdeck: For my personal use of Twitter, Tweetdeck is [...]
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Is 2010 Make or Break for Twitter?

Here’s an intriguing take on Twitter from Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, who believes Twitter will become profitable or get acquired in 2010. (Source: AdAge) “Twitter has been fiddling around and growing like mad but without a business model for years now. In 2010, growth is not sufficient. One of two things will happen. Either [...]
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TwitSweeper Sweeps Spam Away

Twitter spam continues to be a huge problem, and there’s no sign that it’s going to disappear any time soon. This problem has created a huge opportunity for companies offering anti-spam services. For the past month, I’ve been using TwitSweeper, which examines your followers to see if any of them are “spammy”, and then lets [...]
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Five Predictions for Twitter in ’10

After an ultra-impressive 2009, what’s in store for Twitter in 2010? Here are a few predictions: 1. After much anticipation and too much talk by Biz Stone and Ev Williams, Twitter will finally launch premium services aimed at corporate customers. At the core of Twitter’s services will be analytics as Twitter capitalizes on the mountain [...]
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Analyze Your Twitter Followers

As you attract more Twitter followers, you may start to wonder who are these people and where are they are located. To answers some of those questions, ad.ly has introduced a new service that offers some interesting information. This includes: - How many of your followers are engaged/disengaged, which means how many of your followers [...]
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