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Cool Info-graphic of Twitter’s Growth
Here’s a cool info-graph of Twitter’s growth over the past five years via Visually. Embed the above image on your site Direct Link by visually via
App of the Day: tweetLevel
Links: http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/ Description: A new measurement service from Edelman that calculates someone’s influence by be slicing, dicing and crunching their Twitter data. It lets people discover their TweetLevel “score”, and displays the number of followers, tag cloud, who influences them, who they influence, and who retweets them. TweetLevel also lets people search by topic based [...]
App of the Day: Shuu.sh
Link: http://shuu.sh/ Description: A web-based Twitter reader that displays the updates of the people you follow in relation to the frequency of their tweets. It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates. Our take: Interesting way to put the spotlight on your “quiet” followers who [...]
Twitter’s Buy vs. Build Approach
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 [...]
Twitter Sentiment: Get a Lay of the Land
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: [...]
What Does 100M Active Users Mean for Twitter?