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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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter’s Growth: A Pause or a Plateau?
A quick look at Twitter.com’s traffic in July shows pretty much flat growth from July – the second flat month-over-month period this year. (See the Compete.com chart below) I’m not sure whether this is: 1. An indication that Twitter’s growth has, in fact, plateaued despite the hype. 2. It’s summer, and people have better things [...]
Martha Loves Twitter; Down on Facebook
You know it’s the beginning of the end when celebrities decide something isn’t cool anymore. Check out Martha Stewart, who has apparently lost some of her enthusiasm about Facebook. Instead, she’s found a new social media love (surprise, surprise!) – Twitter. Why Twitter? Here’s what Stewart told The Daily Beast. “First of all, you don’t [...]
A Fresh Coat of Paint for Twitter.com
Looks like something’s brewing over at Twitter HQ. BoomTown has an “exclusive” that Twitter will launch a new and improved homepage next week that includes “a search box,trends and more information about how they can use Twitter. It sounds like Twitter is borrowing some UI goodness from Twitter search services such as Twazzup and Scoopler, [...]
Twitter’s Still a Village