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Twitter vs. Facebook vs. LinkedIn

There’s been a lot of talk this week about Facebook now having 350 million users. To provide a sense of how Facebook’s growth compares with Twitter and LinkedIn, here are some charts from Compete.com. In October, Twitter’s unique visitors (U.S.) dropped 2.1%, while Facebook’s rose 3.5% and LinkedIn’s 3.29%. Over the past year, Twitter has [...]
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Twitterfeed: The Workhorse of Twitter

Among the thousands of Twitter applications in the ecosystem, one of the most popular – and probably the most under appreciated – is Twitterfeed, which lets an RSS feed appear on Twitter. According to ReadWriteWeb, Twitterfeed is used by nearly 350,000 publishers who want to let everyone on Twitter know that a new blog post or [...]
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Twitter’s Still a Village

Last night in Toronto, Shel Israel appeared at Third Tuesday to talk about his new book, Twitterville, which is focused on how people and businesses are using Twitter. I don’t have a copy of the book so I can’t provide an opinion of whether it’s worth buying but one thing that struck me is how Twitter [...]
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What’s Up With Athletes and Twitter?

One of the more curious things about Twitter is how many athletes are all over it – updating before and during games when they should really be focused on the game itself given that’s what they get paid to do. In particular, basketball and football players love Twitter with many players using it all the time, [...]
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The Fascination With Teens Not Using Twitter

In the past couple of months, it has been difficult not to stumble across a new report or a news article suggesting or exploring why teenagers aren’t using Twitter. A good example is a long story in the New York Times that opines that teenagers don’t have a need for Twitter. So, here are some theories [...]
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