Category Archives: Twitter

The Five “A’s” of Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: March 16, 2010
Much to the disappointment of many people yesterday, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams did not unveil a new and much-anticipated advertising platform during a SXSW presentation. Instead, he introduced a new service called @anywhere, which while interesting wasn’t what the audience expected or wanted. So while Twitter continues to work away to create a viable revenue model, [...]
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Wanted: Tools to Rate and Filter Friends

By Mark Evans | Published: March 10, 2010
There’s probably a tool out there that addresses this problem: how do you efficiently and effectively get rid of people that you follow who start to lose their Twitter mojo? It’s people who you start to follow because their tweets seem interesting, entertaining or valuable. Then – for some reason – they begin to tweet about [...]
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Tweet, Anyone? Not!

By Mark Evans | Published: March 9, 2010
The folks at Twitter sure know how to have fun! Earlier today, they caused a stir by quietly changing the “Update” button to “Tweet”. This caused a huge stir within the blogosphere based on the theory that anything Twitter does is news. Just when the “Tweet” news started to get heavily reported, Twitter switched it back to [...]
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Next Stop, 20 Billion Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: March 5, 2010
Twitter just passed through the 10 billion-tweet barrier. According to GigaTweet, it will only be 202 days (approx. Sept. 15) before the 20-billion barrier is cracked. Go, Twitter, Go!
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10 Billions Tweets…and Counting

By Mark Evans | Published: March 3, 2010
In less than two days, the number of tweets will surge through the 10 billion barrier, according to GigaTweet. On a daily basis, there are now more than 50 million tweets/day.
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