People use the #Hashtag on Twitter to express themselves and inform their followers of what’s happening in their area of interest. Business exploits Hashtags such as #Innovation to help corral interesting articles, video and events that might spark their followers imagination, who knows a #Hashtag might even lead to Innovation. Now wouldn’t that be a… Continue Reading
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Can Bing Gain With Twitters Stream
I’m sure it won’t come as a surprise to many that Microsoft has reached an agreement with Twitter extending their cooperation in a number of areas including showing real-time Twitter search results in Bing. The two parties have a long history in working together and this agreement is in both parties interest, without it Twitter… Continue Reading
Retweet Retweetings and Your Tweet
94% of retweets happen in the first hour after the original tweet. That bit of information is not surprising given the speed at which tweets scroll by in our computer and smart phone windows but it is still a disheartening result of a recent retweet analysis from Sysomos. The analysis of over a billion tweets… Continue Reading
Twitter’s Rarefied Air
I’ve seen the differing statistics and listened to the idle chatter about how under 10% of the users on twitter create over 80% of the content on the service. We all know that the 90/10 rules seems to be deeply embedded in all things online, 10% lead and 90% follow. Some sources site a slightly… Continue Reading
Is Real Time Search a Dream or a Nightmare?
Over my first cup of coffee this morning I read a couple of articles about Google rolling out its new search feature that adds almost instant results from Twitter, Facebook, Google News and other resources to your search results. My first thought was oh no now people will see a bunch of crap but I… Continue Reading
Twitter Adopted by Adults
It was no surprise over the last couple of weeks to see stories from the news media about how adults are using Twitter more then young people. Articles like the one in the NYT today Adults Have Fueled Twitter lay out the details to the new surveys and will go further into it on Wednesday.… Continue Reading
Advertise And Get Motivated Twitter Followers
Finding followers on Twitter is not a hard thing to do, however it can be daunting to find followers who are motivated and interested in what you are Tweeting about. I came across a new advertising site that puts a banner with your twitter profile on web sites that develops apps or are some how… Continue Reading