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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Is Twitter’s Business Model the “Firehose”?
Here’s the thing about Twitter that continues to puzzle me: its insistence on resisting low-hanging fruit when it comes to developing a business model. For a few years, Twitter refused – perhaps that’s a strong word – to consider advertising, even though presenting its users with relevant and contextual advertising was a no-brainer, and something [...]
ManageFlitter: Manage Your Twitter Followers
As you follow more people, it gets increasingly difficult to know who you’re following and their habits. One of the reasons we don’t unfollow more people is a lack of insight and information about our followers. Given Twitter doesn’t provide much in the way of management tool, there are many third-parties that have stepped into [...]
Timely.is: Tweeting for Maximum Exposure
For people who are enthusiastic Twitter users, our tweets happen when they happen with no rhyme or reason. Some people may schedule a tweet using a tool within TweetDeck or HootSuite but I suspect this isn’t a large group. If you are into scheduling tweets, an important consideration is doing it at times when your [...]
Twitter-Tweetdeck: A Perfect Marriage
In February when it appeared that Bill Gross’ Ubermedia had purchased Tweetdeck, the most popular third-party service to use Twitter, it seemed like a huge coup for Ubermedia and a major strategic blunder by Twitter. With about 5% of the market for people looking read and publish tweets, Tweetdeck was the biggest prize for anyone [...]
TweetBot Plants Stake on the iPhone
I have tried lots of Twitter applications for the iPhone although not Twitter’s own iPhone application. So far, the standard has been TweetDeck because it’s easy to use and provides a nice snapshot of all conversations. If Tweetdeck has any limitations, it is small things such as the ability to edit retweets. But all in [...]
OAuth: Refreshed and More User-Friendly