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Half of Twitter Registrants Have Never Tweeted

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Four useful tools for social networkers

David reviews for online services that increase the productivity of active contributors to social media.

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100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals | Best Online Colleges

At its essence, Twitter is nothing more than an RSS feed. The tools are what make it so valuable. Online Best Colleges has come up with this great list of 100 Twitter tools that do everything from identify people you haven't tweeted in a long time to figure out how much time you waste on Twitter. And you can waste a LOT of time on Twitter!

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Nielsen: Twitter's growing really, really, really, really fast | The Social - CNET News

From February 2008 to February 2009, it clocked in at a whopping 1,382 percent growth rate.Twitter (which counts the 35-to-49 age demographic as its biggest, the statistics said) may be growing even faster than its numbers say. "PC Web usage of Twitter.com doesn't tell the whole story," the post by Nielsen Online's Michelle McGiboney read. "The ability to (use) Twitter via a mobile phone--whether through the mobile Web or via text messages--is a driving factor in the social network's success. In January, 735,000 unique visitors accessed the Twitter Web site through their mobile phones. The average unique visitor went to Twitter.com 14 times during the month and spent an average of seven minutes on the site."

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The Social Customer Manifesto: Skittles Social Media Experiment

In a bold experiment in letting go, Skittles gives over its home page to a Twitter feed. The site also includes links to the brand's activities on Facebook and Flickr. "I don't know why everyone is talking about Skittles but they're gross!" says one Tweeter. Bloggers are debating like crazy as scores of new tweets come in by the minute.

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Twitter User Base Continues To Grow

According to Pew Research, 27% of bloggers use Twitter and 11% of Web-equipped US adults have used a microblog service. That second figure has nearly doubled in the past year. There is a high correlation between Twitter use and use of other Internet technologies. The median age of a Twitter user is 31. By comparison, the median age of a MySpace user is 27, while Facebook users median at 26 and LinkedIn users at 40.

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C Level Tweeters

Paul Dunay's list of C-level executives who use Twitter, including Richard Branson, George Colony, Tim O'Reilly and others. Still too many geeks and not enough mainstream brands here, but it's coming along.

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Brands that Tweet

Paul Dunay has links to some good reading on the question of whether brands should use Twitter, as well as a list of about 70 brands that do. Readers contribute several more.

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How to be a Twitter all-star

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After a while, as a Twitterer, you start to feel like you are friends with the people you follow and those who follow you
Tweets like trivia questions and giveaways get great responses, especially impressive when that approach is more often than not frowned upon in the Twittersphere.
It is necessary to have the person in the Twitter role equipped to handle news management, customer communications, to be able to write compelling tweets and be willing to be engaged at all times."
We had a customer back in March who direct messaged us that the kiosks were down in Oakland and was frustrated," she said. "I called Oakland to find out exactly what was going on and sent him a reply that there was a power outage and it would be up soon."
Or consider that one of the outcomes of Comcast's efforts is that folks are now defending them. "When you build a community, you may get some negative people, but others will come back and defend you," Eliason said. "Our customers see what we're doing and stand up for us. It's like they're saying 'Hey, they are trying to help. Leave them alone' whenever someone speaks out negatively about us."
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- And this is one of the most attacked companies in the blogosphere! Look at how quickly you can turn negativity around.
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On Twitter, you have to be yourself. The people that do it well aren't hiding behind a fake persona. You can’t hide. You can't create a persona and be someone that you aren't
There is no more powerful way to humanize your brand.

Social networking for design professionals « sullivankreiss.com

Here's a nice roundup of Twitter-related services that can help you organize and filter conversations.

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monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget

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@dunkindonuts joins @starbucks in the Twittersphere

Looks like a battle to the death (with two shots of amaretto, no froth in the milk)

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BusinessWeek Rounds Up Twitter Wannabes

Yammer is a microblogging service for enterprises that lets companies create private discussion groups. Blip.fm attaches music clips to short messages. Zannel attaches photos. Seesmic adds video-sharing. "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone expects the site's user base to grow 10 times its current size in the next 12 months."

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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing, says Paul Boutin.

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Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy

Clive Thompson has a terrific feature in the International Herald Tribune about social networks and "ambient intimacy", which is the phenomenon of sustaining relationships through casual awareness of what others are doing. Twitter and the Facebook News Feed are bringing new breadth to this concept, enabling people to glimpse others' lives through occasional insights into their everyday activities. This intimacy becomes addictive. People who initially reject the News Feed as too intrusive or the constant stream of Twitter chatter as too overwhelming often find themselves drawn in to the point that monitoring the stream becomes addictive. There are also downsides to this phenomenon, in particular the lack of privacy and control over one's own persona. The Internet was supposed to liberate people to reinvent themselves, but the arrival of tools that let anyone publish information about anyone else has actually done the opposite: it has given us less control over our own image.

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In essence, Facebook users didn't think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive.
The phenomenon is quite different from what we normally think of as blogging, because a blog post is usually a written piece, sometimes quite long: a statement of opinion, a story, an analysis. But these new updates are something different. They're far shorter, far more frequent and less carefully considered.
But as the days went by, something changed. Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends' lives in a way he never had before. When one friend got sick with a virulent fever, he could tell by her Twitter updates when she was getting worse and the instant she finally turned the corner. He could see when friends were heading into hellish days at work or when they'd scored a big success. Even the daily catalogue of sandwiches became oddly mesmerizing, a sort of metronomic click that he grew accustomed to seeing pop up in the middle of each day.
Each little update each individual bit of social information is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends' and family members' lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting.
when they do socialize face to face, it feels oddly as if they've never actually been apart. They don't need to ask, "So, what have you been up to?" because they already know. Instead, they'll begin discussing something that one of the friends Twittered that afternoon, as if picking up a conversation in the middle.
The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night tiny updates like "enjoying a glass of wine now" or "watching TV while lying on the couch." They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn't very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
wareness tools aren't as cognitively demanding as an e-mail message. E-mail is something you have to stop to open and assess. It's personal; someone is asking for 100 percent of your attention. In contrast, ambient updates are all visible on one single page in a big row, and they're not really directed at you. This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you'll read them all, maybe you'll skip some.
Dunbar figured that our maximum number of social connections would be similarly larger: about 150 on average. Sure enough, psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the "Dunbar number," as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
But where their sociality had truly exploded was in their "weak ties" loose acquaintances, people they knew less well. It might be someone they met at a conference, or someone from high school who recently "friended" them on Facebook, or somebody from last year's holiday party. In their pre-Internet lives, these sorts of acquaintances would have quickly faded from their attention. But when one of these far-flung people suddenly posts a personal note to your feed, it is essentially a reminder that they exist.
Fritton joked to me that she no longer buys anything worth more than $50 without quickly checking it with her Twitter network.
"I outsource my entire life," she said. "I can solve any problem on Twitter in six minutes."
Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society who has studied social media for 10 years, published a paper this spring arguing that awareness tools like News Feed might be creating a whole new class of relationships that are nearly parasocial peripheral people in our network whose intimate details we follow closely online, even while they, like Angelina Jolie, are basically unaware we exist.
Yet Ahan knows that she cannot simply walk away from her online life, because the people she knows online won't stop talking about her, or posting unflattering photos. She needs to stay on Facebook just to monitor what's being said about her. This is a common complaint I heard, particularly from people in their 20s who were in college when Facebook appeared and have never lived as adults without online awareness. For them, participation isn't optional. If you don't dive in, other people will define who you are. So you constantly stream your pictures, your thoughts, your relationship status and what you're doing right now! if only to ensure the virtual version of you is accurate, or at least the one you want to present to the world.
When cyberspace came along in the early '90s, it was celebrated as a place where you could reinvent your identity become someone new.

"If anything, it's identity-constraining now," Tufekci told me. "You can't play with your identity if your audience is always checking up on you. I had a student who posted that she was downloading some Pearl Jam, and someone wrote on her wall, 'Oh, right, ha-ha I know you, and you're not into that.' " She laughed. "You know that old cartoon? 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog'? On the Internet today, everybody knows you're a dog!
The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you're feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It's like the Greek dictum to "know thyself," or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter's Web site "What are you doing?" can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they're trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.

While I Talked, People Twittered - Pistachio

Laura Fitton invited me to post an item from my newsletter about speaking to an audience that was Twittering about my presentation. The article I posted kicked off an interesting round of discussion about the pros and cons of real-time feedback. Check out the comments.

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Tweet Grid

This service lets you create up to nine windows in a browser, each running a different Twitter query. It's an interesting approach to bringing order to the wonderful chaos that is the tweetsphere.

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