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Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up

By Jeff on November 25, 2009

Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as “paragraphs.”
Today, blogs are doing [...]

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Twitter uptimes and downtimes…

By Jeff on August 25, 2009

Over the course of the day I have seen a lot of 503 errors on Twitter and have really wondered what impact this has on Twitter?  Will people eventually get tired of outages and look for something else or is everyone just addicted to twitter?

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Twitter: The CIO’s new best friend?

By Jeff on April 24, 2009

Twitter may have doubled its user numbers last month but CIOs are split over whether or not the microblogging service makes a useful business tool.
In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, seven out of the 12 members said they are currently using Twitter for information, for networking or for other business-related purposes.
While some CIOs are simply [...]

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Land Rover Taps Twitter as Campaign Cornerstone

By Jeff on April 21, 2009

Land Rover last week became the first national brand to execute a national Twitter campaign in a bid to promote its newest models’ debuts at the New York Auto Show.  While brands as diverse as Southwest Airlines and Smirnoff vodka have been tweeting and accumulating followers for months, Land Rover attempted to use the burgeoning [...]

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Twitter’s big tweet: Oprah

By Jeff on April 20, 2009

“It’s easy to roll your eyes at the Twitter hype. The 30-person company still doesn’t have a business model. A Google advertising partnership or an acquisition would have been more exciting news for the tech crowd. But here’s why the Oprah moment shouldn’t be dismissed lightly.  Within about 15 minutes of joining Twitter, Oprah already [...]

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Twitter’s big day: Revenue plan? Google deal? Oprah’s touch?

By Jeff on April 20, 2009

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams sent out the cryptic tweet earlier today – and now, some tidbits of information have trickled out, giving us some things to ponder as it relates to this news.

Of course, the big news would be a revenue model for the business. Twitter has gone on the record to say that it [...]

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Get Arrested, Have Your Mugshot and Indiscretions Blasted All Over Twitter

By Jeff on April 20, 2009

If you get arrested in Denton, Texas, your surely precious mugshot will be splayed all over Twitter, along with your age and crime.
Sadly, it’s not a pure innovation of the Texas penal system designed to further humiliate lawbreakers, just a clever art student scraping their public feed to comment on how much information is out [...]

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How to Weather a Twitterstorm

By Jeff on April 17, 2009

“Thanks to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, all sorts of new critics and activists are finding their voices amplified online. So what’s a marketer to do when an online firestorm erupts?”
Read More: How to Weather a Twitterstorm – Advertising Age – Digital.

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Twitter on Fire: Traffic More Than Doubles in March

By Jeff on April 17, 2009

“Twitter’s growth chart continues to look incredible. The messaging/micro-blogging service attracted 9.3 million U.S. unique visitors to its site in March, up 131% from February, according to ComScore. That’s more than 5 million more visitors than the site had in February.”
Read More: Twitter on Fire: Traffic More Than Doubles in March – Advertising Age – [...]

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CNN acquires leading Twitter account

By Jeff on April 17, 2009

CNN gained nearly a million Twitter followers on Wednesday when it acquired the @cnnbrk Twitter account.
The account, the largest on Twitter with more than 947,000 followers, had been maintained and nurtured by James Cox. CNN did not disclose financial details of the acquisition, probably because rules at the microblogging site prohibit the selling of Twitter [...]

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