Monthly Archives: April 2010

Twazzup Launches Online Reader

Twazzup, which has established itself as one of the leading Twitter search engines, has moved into the Twitter reader world. The service isn’t overflowing with frills but for anyone looking for an alternative to Twitter.com, Twazzup’s reader is solid. What’s particularly nice is how now the reader and the search tool are closely linked together, [...]
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Google’s New Twitter Follower Tool

I stumbled across a new addition from GoogleLabs with the very uncool name – Find people to follow. Despite the bad name, it’s an interesting way to find new people to follow, as well as see people who are similar to yourself. To start, you simply enter a Twitter user name: Find people to follow [...]
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Alyssa Milano Shows Twitter to Jimmy Kimmel

Alyssa Milano is a social media guru! Here’s a video of her showing talk show host Jimmy Kimmel how to use Twitter. Milano said she tweets “12 to 22 times” a day, which should make the tech goddess for all geeks.
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Twitter By Numbers: 1, 2, 3

Some interesting factoids from Twitter executives at the Chirp conference today: Registered users: 105.7 million New users/day: 300,000 Unique visitors/month: 180 million Amount of traffic from non-Twitter sites: 75% Number of searches per month: 18 billion. Sources: Search Engine Land, TechCrunch
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Inactive Twitter Friends? Turf ‘Em

Unless you follow indiscriminately (or follow anyone who follows you), following people who provide value on a regular basis can be a good thing. But what about people you follow who stop using Twitter? Should you continue to follow them? If not consider using UnTweeps,a tool that shows who hasn’t made a tweet in a [...]
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Let the Good Times – and Money – Flow for Twitter

Four years and about 60 million users later, Twitter is finally ready to unveil its business model – something that will take a project gone wild and transform it into a business. According to the New York Times, Twitter will unveil an advertising platform today, Promoted Tweets, that will see ads appear when a search [...]
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