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act.ly - Start a Twitter Petition
Any twitter user can petition another twitter user. Followers can re-tweet to sign, and the person petitioned can respond.
Twitter traffic up 22-fold this year — Digital marketing news | Digital marketing events at Netimperative
UK Internet traffic to Twitter, the "micro-blogging" service and social network, has increased 22-fold over the last 12 months, according to new research from Hitwise.
How to verify a tweet | Twitter Journalism
Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That’s because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet.
Breaking Tweets prides itself on giving many different types of Twitterers credit for breaking news, whether it be someone in Honduras with a dozen followers recording the first “earthquake” tweet or a news organization providing the first details of a major story.
But how do you know a tweet’s legitimate?
PaperTweet3d: Augmented Reality T-shirts - squidder.com
Below is an early technical demo, in which a barcode, containing a twitter username, is embedded within our FLAR pattern. This is important because you don’t need to create a new pattern for each username. Instead, the flash reads the person’s username (up to 8 characters, encoded in 6 bit chunks) and then pulls that person’s latest post from twitter.
Twitter Grows 1,444% Over Last Year; Time on Site Up 175% | Nielsen Wire
ay 2009 data from Nielsen Online shows that people continue to spend more time on social networking and blog sites than ever before, with total minutes increasing 82 percent year-over-year and the average time per person increasing 67 percent year-over-year in May 2009. Twitter.com was the fastest-growing Web brand in May 2009, increasing 1,448 percent year over- year, from 1.2 million unique visitors in May 2008 to 18.2 million in 2009. Despite being the fastest-growing brand year-over-year, Twitter’s month-over-month growth has begun to slow, increasing 7 percent from April. The average time per person on Twitter increased 175 percent year-over-year, from 6 minutes and 19 seconds in May 2008 to 17 minutes and 21 seconds in May 2009. However, month-over-month growth was flat, decreasing one percent from April 2009.
Twitter barren territory for online retailers
Only 9.5% of Twitter traffic goes to "transactional sites", even less than the 14.7% from Facebook. To put that into perspective, Google UK sends over 30% of its traffic to transactional websites.
Study: Users Spend More Time on Social Networks Than Ever Before, but Twitter's Growth Slows Down
It is important to note, though, that Twitter's growth has slowed down dramatically over the last two months, as both the time per person spent on the site and Twitter's month-over-month growth only increased slightly since April 2009.
Enfin des données statistiques sur Twitter | Médias sociaux
Après plusieurs mois de surchauffe médiatique, la société Sysomos nous offre enfin des données statistiques complètes sur Twitter : An In-Depth Look
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As much as I fear what happens after the honeymoon with SMS and social media under repressive governments, currently they provide an amazing tool for immediate news even during crisis, citizen voice and discussion.
Tyranny's new nightmare: Twitter - Los Angeles Times
Tyranny's irreducible dilemma is that the Web is, in its chaotic essence, the product of an open society. You can't have its benefits without accepting the democratic baggage.
HigherEdMorning.com » Blog Archive » The hidden problem with Twitter
Oxford University Press also found gerunds are heavily utilized by the Twitter crowd - among the most popular words are “going,” “getting” and “watching.” Tech terms such as “Google,” “Facebook,” “blog” and “Mac” also rank high with users.
Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot: Using Twitter to Engage Students in Learning
High School students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are using social media tools and unblocked access to the Internet and as a result are engaged in the learning process in a whole new way.
Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot: News Flash: Teens Don't Give a Twit About Twitter
So this begs an interesting question: If Gen Y *really* doesn't give a Twit about Twitter, should educators be trying to integrate it into the curriculum?
TWITTERATURE
Like any good revolution, this one started in a college dormitory. Sitting
in our suite at the end of another long day at the University of Chicago, we
had an epiphany of the sort that many men wait for until their golden years,
and which for too many others never comes before the grave. What, we asked,
are the grandest ventures of our or any generation? And what, to give this a
bit more focus, best expresses the souls of 21st century Americans?
HabitatUK apologises for Twitter hashtag issue
The post I did a few days ago, How not to use Twitter HabitatUK a case study, hit a chord on Social Media Today. It was the most viewed post, and it obviously struck a chord with the Twitter community as it was tweeted about for days. It was picked up by the Guardian and Sky News. As a consequence, the Habitat press office contacted me this week to apologise for the matter, and asked me to post this on their behalf.
Twitter grew 1,444% in a year
Twitter is a lot of things, and I salute the guys for providing the platform and building an impressive ecosystem, but at some point in time someone at Twitter HQ will need to step up and present what they plan for twitter in 2010.
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