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Is Twitter For Old Fogies?
According to a new survey, young people don’t like Twitter. Well, they like Twitter but no where near as much as like social networks. The survey by Pace University and the Participatory Media Network found that 22% of people between 18 and 24-years-old had a Twitter account while 99% – which seems awful high – [...]
How Far is Your Twitter Reach?
Like a lot of people, I’m a big fan of sharing links to interesting content and Web sites on Twitter. In fact, my followers are heavily skewed to people who like to share a lot. One thing I wonder about is how far the links offered up for general consumption get distributed. When you see [...]
Reporting on Reportage
There’s no lack of Twitter tools for the iPhone – TweetFon, Twitterrific, Tweetie, Twinkle, etc. A new player on the scene is Reportage, developed by Montreal-based wherecloud. Reportage takes a different approach to Twitter by displaying the updates of your followers using their icons rather than a timeline. The number of updates made by your [...]
TweetBucks: A New Way to Monetize Twitter
While Twitter toils away on creating premium services to generate revenue, there’s a growing number of players looking to make money from Twitter’s 30 million or users. Some of them are blatant such as pay-per-Tweet, while others are selling third-party services that enhance Twitter’s functionality. A new player within Twitter monetization landscape is Tweetbucks, which [...]
Topsy Spins Search on its Head
After three years in development, Topsy has finally launched…and it’s a search engine that actually lives up to the hype. Topsy generates results based on how many times a search term is mentioned on Twitter. The idea is that if something attracts a lot of Tweets, it must be interesting or relevant. What makes Topsy [...]
A Different View of Your Personal TwitterWorld