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Monthly Archives: October 2010
How Much is Twitter Worth?
So how is Twitter worth? What’s the value of a service with 125 million or so registered users? Is it $1-billion based on its latest round of funding or, perhaps, significantly more if you buy into the thesis of Naval Ravikant (an early Twitter investor) and Adam Rifkin that appeared recently on TechCrunch? Twitter could [...]
GroupTweet: Private Groups Within Twitter
One of the fascinating things about Twitter is how the API is being embraced by thousands of companies in different and creative ways. One service that caught my attention recently was GroupTweet, which makes it possible to create private groups to use Twitter as a platform to communication and share information using private messages. GroupTweet’s approach [...]
Tumble Your Twitter Links
To be honest, there’s not that many Twitter services that are immediately captivating. Tumbl.in, however, stands out from the crowd. In simple terms, Tumbl.in is StumbleUpon for the links within your Twitter stream. Rather than scrolling through your Twitter stream to find interesting links, Tumbl.in taps into your Twitter account to let you “Tumbl” your [...]
Twitter Pushes Geo-Location Feature
One of the things that doesn’t get talked about much is how few people take advantage of Twitter’s geo-location feature. It may be that most users don’t see Twitter as a location-based service, or that they are already disclosing a lot of information in their tweets so they don’t feel the need to broadcast their [...]
How to Avoid Twitter Burnout