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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Twitter to Finally Embrace Advertising
According to MediaMemo, Twitter is going to be unveiling a program that will deliver advertising based on search results. The most obvious question is: why did it take so long to something that was such a no-brainer? For all the talk about Twitter users balking at ads appearing within their streams and their dislike a [...]
What’s the Mood on Twitter?
It’s easy to search for what’s happening on Twitter but what’s the mood out there? How is the Twitterrati feeling about the news, celebrities, issues and trends? A simple tool to get a lay of the land is Twitter Sentiment, which lets users enter a keyword to see if the sentiment is negative or positive. [...]
Whoa, Nelly! 50 million Tweets/Day
In 2007, there were 5,000 tweets created a day. Today, Twitter has proclaimed there are now more than 50 million tweets posted a day, which, in some respects, why Twitter has raised so much venture capital given it probably takes some serious computing power to send all those 140 character (or less) messages!
Looking Back at All Those Tweets
There’s probably a wealth of information within all the tweets you’ve done but it’s not exactly easy to review them. Twitter collects everything but seems far more intent on using data to create an analytics service that give users a user-friendly way to reviews, filter, search and tag their tweets. But if you’re looking for [...]
Smart Move: Twitter Hires Communications Exec
One of the Twitter’s challenges over past year has been the high, if not unrealistic expectations, of where it’s heading strategically and when it might get there. Part of the problem has been the fact that Twitter’s co-founders, Biz Stone, Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey, have been talking a lot publicly, and continually dropping hints [...]
A New and Improved Twitter.com?