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04 Nov 09

Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com

As major events unfold, Twitter, Facebook and other similar services are increasingly becoming the nation’s virtual water coolers.

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  • It’s no wonder, then, that pundits and investors are salivating over the prospect of an effective way to search this information. Twitter, of course, has its own search engine. But others with names like OneRiot, Collecta and Topsy are also vying to become the Google of real-time search.
  • No one doubts that helping users find fresh, up-to-the-minute content on the Web is valuable. But plenty of other valuable Web services — including content sites, free Web e-mail and social networks — have struggled to find effective business models.
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22 Oct 09

In Google and Microsoft Deals, Hints of Revenue for Twitter - NYTimes.com

  • Twitter gets 55 million monthly visitors, it has raised $155 million in venture capital, and it has generated intense interest from Hollywood to Iran. But it hasn’t earned much revenue and certainly no profit.
  • The deals represent the latest evidence of the intense interest in what is known as the real-time Web — the constant stream of posts and updates on Twitter, Facebook and similar services.
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13 Oct 09

STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens

  • There’s a difference between these two, however: Facebook is already huge; there’s always a question of whether it has room for further growth at all. Twitter (Twitter) is several orders of magnitude smaller; accustomed to its explosive growth, we’ve already started calling it the “new SMS”, but if it stays where it is, numbers-wise, it’s not going to cut it.
  • When it comes to other social networking powerhouses of old, the situation is far, far worse. MySpace (MySpace) and Bebo (Bebo) are bleeding users at an oustanding pace: 11.15% and 15.41%, respectively. If the trend continues, we might see these sites join services like GeoCities in the geek history books in a couple of years.
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02 Oct 09

Op-Ed Contributor - Don’t Tweet About Health Care - NYTimes.com

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA’s 47-minute televised address last week, while controversial, may have been his most effective appeal yet for his health care reforms. This is largely because he turned to the supposedly dying medium of prime-time television to accomplish what 21st-century social- media branding platforms could not.
  • The same is true of the Internet in general. Video clips from raucous town hall meetings across America demonstrate that YouTube, which played such a prominent role in building Brand Obama (who can forget the “Yes We Can” celebrity video?), is just as capable of undermining the president’s health care plan and approval ratings.
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Best Buy Plans a Very Twittery Christmas - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Best Buy, the giant electronics retailer is building its entire holiday TV campaign around its Twelpforce Twitter account.
  • Twelpforce is an account staffed by more than 2,500 Best Buy “blue shirt” salespeople and members of its Geek Squad tech support service. People ask questions on Twitter and Best Buy employees, working on company time, provide the answers using Twitter. Since July, the service has answered some 20,000 questions. (An interview with the founder of Twelpforce is here.)
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24 Sep 09

BBC - Gregory's First Law: Leaking moon water is all Twitter's fault

  • Well in reality most science journalists have known about this story for a few days now. But the story had been embargoed by Science, the journal publishing the research. So anyone publishing the story ahead of time would be punished. If all went to plan this research would suddenly emerge via a big Nasa press conference. Every news outlet around the world would report this amazing new discovery at the same time.

  • In fact as Birmingham science journalist David Whitehouse explained to me you can blame most of this on Twitter;



    Space stories in particular seem to be prone to this. You have a very active blogosphere and Twitter has made it even worse. It's fabulous for sharing gossip but it's also made life hell for this sort of thing.
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23 Sep 09

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org

  • Even more interesting is who follows whom. We found that an average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman. Similarly, an average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman. Finally, an average man is 40% more likely to be followed by another man than by a woman. These results cannot be explained by different tweeting activity - both men and women tweet at the same rate.
  • On a typical online social network, most of the activity is focused around women - men follow content produced by women they do and do not know, and women follow content produced by women they knowi. Generally, men receive comparatively little attention from other men or from women.
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17 Aug 09

Why I Don’t Use Twitter

  • I believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. I’m less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still, since I’m coming down to the TechCrunch 50 conference in a few weeks, and will likely be the only person attending who does not use Twitter, I felt I should furnish an explanation

  • Tweets have no value


    What is a tweet? It is a quantity of data which I believe to be useless, at least in this context. What can be said in 140 characters is either trivial or abridged; in the first case it would be better not to say it at all, and in the second case it would be better to give it the space it deserves. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule: “It’s a boy!”

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Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

  • What if a major act of terrorism is organized using Twitter? Would there be pressure to shut it down or greatly control what it's used for?" Winer asks. If you think that's far-fetched, Winer asks you to consider the atmosphere after 9/11, when some people were calling for the Web to be monitored or shut down. Nothing ever came of that because it's too hard to shut down the Web or e-mail. "Twitter, which is fully centralized, would be easy for a government to control," Winer writes.
  • Winer, one of the creators of RSS, proposes using Web syndication as a replacement for Twitter. His idea, called RSS Cloud, is technically complex, but it boils down to this: When you send out an update, it'll go to a set of servers in the Web cloud. The servers will keep track of your subscribers and alert them that you've updated. The key difference between this system and Twitter is decentralization—not everyone's updates are kept by the same company or on the same servers. The system would work much like RSS does now: You can subscribe to lots of different blogs or podcasts, but those feeds are actually hosted all over the Web; some of them may go offline from time to time, but the whole thing won't collapse all at once.
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13 Aug 09

23andMe Agrees To Pay For Tweets If You #BlameDrewsCancer

  • This is another example of Twitter being used for charitable purposes. Last week, we wrote about TwitCause, a service that wants to spread the word about various good causes on Twitter — much like Causes does on Facebook and MySpace. BlameDrewsCancer is taking more of a grassroots approach, but it appears to be working.

Twitter Twerp Scan — Anti-Fool Contact Management

  • No more! TwerpScan will check the number of followers of all your contacts,
    the number of people they are following, and then compute the ratio between
    those. You can

    easily sort the list of your contacts; display them in variable batches
    of 20 to 100 people; and you can follow, unfollow and/or block
    each contact right there on the spot

    — without going insane

Twitter Blacklists: Anti-spam tool or dangerous use of stats? | DVDxR/blog

  • Unfortunately going by this ratio alone you are going to catch a lot of legit users.  Lets not forget Scobleizers’ advice that it’s not who follows you, it’s who you follow.   Heck, going by this criteria I’m amost a spammer.  The problem with the Blacklist is that it seems to lable people as “… known spammers and other morons on Twitter…” without any reguard to the content they post.
  • While I agree that a blacklist of twitter-spammers is a good thing, probably approaching necessary, some logic other than just an arbitrary ratio of followers needs to be used to determine who is a spammer and who is just trying to get the most out of twitter. 
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