Monthly Archives: May 2011

Twitter’s Buy vs. Build Approach

By Mark Evans | Published: May 31, 2011
Twitter is a strange bird these days. It not only has decided to wage a puzzling war against its developer ecosystem, which has helped the Twitter platform flourish, but Twitter also appears intent on making few of them rich unless they really have to. Case in photo is the growing speculation Twitter will launch its [...]
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Twitter Sentiment: Get a Lay of the Land

By Mark Evans | Published: May 16, 2011
If you’re looking for a quick way to gauge the mood within the TwitterSphere, Twitter Sentiment offers a simple service to see positive or negative sentiment based on keywords. For example, here’s the sentiment for IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan, who was arrested yesterday for allegedly sexually assaulting a chamber made a NYC hotel. Bottom line: [...]
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Career Suicide via Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: May 12, 2011
The wonderful thing about Twitter is it’s fast and easy to post a tweet. You think of something, fire off 140 characters (or less) and a tweet is published to the world. The downside is tweets are easy and fast to do, which also means that firing off a tweet that may not, in hindsight, [...]
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A No-Brainer Move for Twitter: Buying TweetDeck

By Mark Evans | Published: May 3, 2011
It was probably the worst-kept secret within the technology and social media worlds but Twitter has acquired Tweetdeck for $40-million to $50-million, according to Techcrunch. The deal makes complete sense because Twitter.com as a way to read and write tweets is a no-frills platform that loses many people once they get some experience and start [...]
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