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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Twitter: Five Degrees of Separation
Everyone is pretty familiar with the concept of “Six Degrees of Separation”, which suggests that everyone is, at most, six steps away from any other person in the world. The other, popular concept is “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon“, which suggests that every actor is the world is only six steps away from Kevin Bacon. [...]
How to Measure a Retweet
If you’re like me, one of the ways to tell if a tweet is successful is how many times it’s retweet (aka RT). A solid and user-friendly tool to measure the number of retweet and see how many people the tweet has reached is tweetreach. Without having to register or provide your Twitter username or [...]
Twitter as a Daily Newspaper
Twitter’s live stream is a lot like a parade: It keeps on moving so if you step away to do something else (work, play, eat, etc.), the parade rolls on without you. Not that this is a bad thing but it does provide good opportunities to create another way to consume Twitter that doesn’t depend [...]
Twitter’s Growth: Slow and Steady
After a massive amount of growth in 2009, Twitter isn’t seeing as exciting growth in 2010 but it’s still, nevertheless, solid. According to eMarketer, Twitter will have 26 million adult U.S. Twitter users in 2010, up 44.4% from 2009. By 2012, eMarketer believes nearly 20% of U.S. Web users, or 36 million people, will be [...]
Sency: A No-Frills Real-Search Tool
There are lots of search tools for Twitter so how does a new player differentiate itself? Sency hopes to do it by offering a no-frills, real-time search engine. While Sency doesn’t have many bells and whistles, it is looking to compete with players such as Twazzup, Scoopler and Searchtastic by providing a tool that provides [...]
Twitter’s Awareness Growing but Usage Lags