Author Archives: Mark Evans

An In-Depth Look at Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: June 11, 2009
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore Twitter given how many are jumping on the bandwagon, and how much mainstream media coverage it continues to attract. There’s been a growing number of surveys done about Twitter’s growth and how people use it. The newest entrant is Sysomos, which collected information from 11.5 million Twitter accounts to get an [...]
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An Ad Network for Twitter Publishers

By Mark Evans | Published: June 10, 2009
There’s a lot of great services that make Twitter better but, like Twitter, most of them suffer from the fact they have no way of making money. This means these tools become public service projects or they disappear when the people who create them run out of resources, patience or enthusiasm. Enter FeaturedUsers.com, which has created [...]
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Twitter: The Ultimate Customer Service Tool?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 9, 2009
At the SES Canada conference yesterday, there was, not surprisingly, a lot of talk about Twitter. Most of it had to do with whether Twitter is truly emerging as a search rival to Google – something the SEO and SEM aficionados dismissed as unlikely. More interesting – at least to me – was the talk during [...]
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The Open Conversation

By Mark Evans | Published: June 5, 2009
Time Magazine is the latest mainstream media publication to how a story on the phenomenon called Twitter. While there’s nothing particularly eye-opening about the article, something that caught my idea was some thoughts about the “open discussion” using Twitter – the idea that thoughts at a conference, for example, could be easily shared in real-time [...]
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Who Wants to Work for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 4, 2009
Last week, one of the Twitter boys was talking about the company’s plans to double its workforce to 90 employees by year-end, which explains what the company is doing with all that venture capital. So, if you’re interested in working for Twitter, there seems to be a few openings, particularly if you’re a geek. They include: Operations [...]
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Mahalo for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 3, 2009
So, how do you find the “Twitter” content? Well, there’s Tweetmeme, which has emerged as one of the places to get a snapshot of what’s attracting the most attention on Twitter, as well as trending tools offered by Twitter and TweetDeck. But what about Twitter updates hand-picked by humans, and then offered up for general consumption [...]
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