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Monthly Archives: January 2010
75M Twitter Users But Growth Slowing
First, the good news: there are now 75 million Twitters users. Now, the bad news: only 15 million are “active” users, and overall growth is slowing after peaking last July. These findings come from RJ Metrics, which based its findings after downloading “just under 2 million tweets from about 50,000 users”. Here are the report’s [...]
Tickery: Who’s Following Who in Common
Tickery is another interesting tool to discover new people to follow. It works by having you submit two Twitter users, and then displays the people in common who they follow. By rolling over each avatar/photograph that’s display, you can see information about each person being followed, including their Twitter ID #, which I suspect shows [...]
Twitter: Just Buy Mr. Tweet
There’s lots of buzz about Twitter’s new (and improved?) suggested user list (aka SUL), it which it provides users with other people to follow. The original SUL mostly promoted A-Listers and celebrities, which explains why people such as Ashton Kutcher quickly built up a massive number of followers. The new SUL (here’s a TechCrunch review) [...]
Validate Your New Twitter Followers
Given the concerns about spam, there’s a growing interest in the quality of followers on Twitter. In other words, more Twitter users are starting to get their heads around the idea of quality rather than quantity even though we still tend to celebrate people who have thousands of followers. The question is how you effectively [...]
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The Twitter Fail Whale Has Resurfaced
Just when you think Twitter’s technical difficulties are a thing of the past, the dreaded Fail Whale makes another appearance due to “over capacity”. When you raise more than $100-million venture capital, this ain’t supposed to happen.
A Beautiful and Visual Way to Search Twitter