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Report: MySpace sinking fast, but Facebook soars | csmonitor.com
In a new report, Nielsen reveals that Facebook users spent an extraordinary 13.9 billion minutes on the site – in the month of April alone. Lagging far behind, at 5 billion user minutes, is MySpace, the network launched in 2003, and purchased by News Corp. in 2005. For years, MySpace was the go-to networking site, but it recently lost significant ground to Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest | Webware - CNET
To follow what's happening in the real world, you need real-time search. Google doesn't have it (yet). Neither do Bing nor Yahoo. But a number--a large, growing number --of new search services scan Twitter and other sites in nearly real time, and will find for you the absolute latest update from the real-time social Web. I looked at more than two dozen products that search Twitter (and other sources) to find the best tools for uncovering the beating pulse of whatever topic you may be interested in.
AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff | Threat Level | Wired.com
The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.”
Conversation Agent: 63 Twitter Tools and One Word of Advice
Whenever I talk about Twitter at an event, if the conference is one of the many dedicated to social media people are chomping at the bit to tell me, even with their body language, what I should know and do on Twitter. If the conference is one of the many attended by people other than the few of us on Twitter and social media, then all I get is blank stares. Yes, believe it or not, there are conferences left out there that are not about social media. No, I don't think you need a Twitter degree [hat tip Mark Earls]. While the famous blue bird on Twitter is very nice, there is another blue bird you should pay more attention to - that of Marketing Profs. Read all about the genesis of that logo here (scroll down to Ann Handley's answer). Let's see if you guess what some of the differences are (in the image). Twitter may be moving into business mainstream, but you need to have something to integrate it with to make it work for your organization and that something is still called marketing. In some cases it shows us as public relations, in others as communications - with customers, employees, partners - never it shows up as just "Twitter". And, yeah, spammers are still spammers everywhere. As I said at a recent event where I talked about exploring social media as tools for planning career development and transition, if you're a jerk, online will amplify that....
What Is Twitter?
Twitter is the latest social-networking craze and it is based on a very simple question: What are you doing?http://www.kmbc.com/news/18869047/detail.html
YouTube - Twitter in Plain English
A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter. Follow us: http://www.twitter.com/commoncraft
Write4net: Publishing is a matter of click.
Publish full articles without needing a blog or site. There's no setup or login. Just write your text and Write4net will publish it using your Twitter account. That's it. So easy. And free!
TweetGrid (jazzychad)
TweetGrid is a powerful Twitter Search Dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, converstations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time. As new tweets are created, they are automatically updated in the grid. No need to refresh the page!
Twitseeker
A search engine for browsing twitter users based upon what they're talking about now!
Op-Ed Columnist - To Tweet or Not to Tweet - NYTimes.com
If you were out with a girl and she started twittering about it in the middle, would that be a deal-breaker or a turn-on?
BIZ (dryly): In the middle of what?
Tweetie for Mac (atebits)
Double click on a tweet to view not only that tweet, but the entire conversation history leading up to that tweet. Never lose track of a conversation again.
Independent compose windows stay out of your way until you need them. Have as many open at a time as you'd like while you compose your thoughts. Everything has a keyboard shortcut, (Command-Enter will send a tweet).
10 Ways to Build Your Blog Community with Twitter « ShoutEm
Every blogger, no matter how ambitious or dedicated to his or her blog - wants a community around it. Easier said than done of course. To build a community you have to get people engaged around the premise of your content and then make it as easy for them to interact as possible. Both with you and each other.
Our Twitter Video Used in Mainstream Media - Thoughts? | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
For the first time in Common Craft's evolution, one of our videos "Twitter in Plain English" is being used in the mainstream media. For the most part, we're excited to have our work in front of millions. However, it brings up some questions and we're curious what you think.
How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer — Copyblogger
By now you’ve most likely joined Twitter (and if you haven’t, you need to, pronto!). Twitter is not only a ...
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