Tag Archives: updates

Bit.ly – Making Updating Easy

By Mark Evans | Published: October 15, 2009
Over the past year, bit.ly has become one of the leading URL-shorteners – a competitive market in which the business models are still being worked on. For Twitter users, bit.ly is a particularly useful way to quickly and easily post updates related to Web sites, news articles and blog posts that you want to share. After [...]
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How Many Tweets a Day is Ideal?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 12, 2009
Earlier this week, I received a notification about a new follower (via Topify) who focused on the high-tech industry, and provided some interesting tweets about online services and content. I was just about to follow this person when I noticed they updated nearly 50 times a day. To me, that’s too many, so I decided not [...]
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Machine Bots Dominate Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 5, 2009
Sysomos (a client) has published another eye-opening report on Twitter, highlighted by the fact 32% of all updates by the most active users (the 5% who account for 75% of all activity) are made by machine bots who pump out more than 150 tweets/day. As impressive is that 24% of overall activity on Twitter is [...]
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