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Five Ways to Stay Excited About Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 31, 2010
Like anything that gets used a lot, Twitter can start to lose its appeal or freshness. Even the most ardent user can experience times when Twitter isn’t as interesting. So, how do you continue to keep Twitter appealing? Here are some tips: 1. Don’t overuse it. There is too much of a good thing, including Twitter. [...]
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What’s Your Social Street Cred?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 13, 2010
After posting yesterday about RetweetRank, someone suggested I take a look at PeerIndex, a start-up that is mapping the social Web and giving everyone an authority ranking using an algoritm that takes into account the information we share, and how this information is shared (retweeted, commented on) by people who are authorities on that topic. PeerIndex [...]
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A Look at Twitter’s “Suggestions for You”

By Mark Evans | Published: August 6, 2010
After reading about Twitter’s new “Suggestions for You” tool, I finally got a chance to see it in action – for those of you who haven’t heard of it, “Suggestions for You” provides a list of people who you might want to follow using an algorithm that explores your existing friends. In typical Twitter fashion, it’s [...]
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Twitter Rolls Out New Follower Tool

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2010
I’m not a big user of Twitter.com but a new feature now being rolled out could make it a lot more useful and interesting. Yesterday, Twitter said it will be introducing “Suggestions for You”, which will displays other Twitter users that you may want to follow. Twitter said the feature is built on an algorithm [...]
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Facebook or Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 29, 2010
I saw a tweet by a well-known blogger and technology executive that he was spending far less time on Facebook. When I asked what was doing online instead, he quickly replied “Twitter! More engagement, realtime discussions, feedbacks. Facebook is becoming (for me) a stream of useless stuff”. It struck me as an interesting comment because it [...]
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