Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:21
tsamsoniw writes “California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s campaign team attempted to share with her Twitter followers an endorsement from a police association. Unfortunately, the campaign press secretary entered an incorrect or incomplete Bit.ly
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Twitter’s Ad Model Takes Shape With Promoted Accounts
Last Updated on Monday, 4 October 2010 11:01 Written by External Post Monday, 4 October 2010 11:01
Twitter revealed the latest piece of its advertising strategy today with a new feature called Promoted Accounts, where companies can try to attract more followers to their Twitter accounts by paying the microblogging startup for prominent placement. It
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Twitter To Start Selling Followers
Last Updated on Sunday, 3 October 2010 11:22 Written by External Post Sunday, 3 October 2010 11:22
Ellie K writes “While not quite as bad as it sounds, Twitter will soon be identifying followers with certain interests based on the content of their Twitter usage, and then providing this info to advertisers. Twitter is already selling sponsored Tweets
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Justin Bieber posts teen’s phone number on Twitter
Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:40
It was every tween girls dream. Justin Bieber posted his phone number on Twitter, inviting his more than 4.5 million followers to dial in and say “hello.” “Everyone call me 248-417-5346 :) or text,” the post read. Only it wasn’t Bieber’s number. It
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Google is top of the tweets
Last Updated on Monday, 9 August 2010 05:21 Written by External Post Monday, 9 August 2010 05:21
Google is one of the most influential users on Twitter, according to a study by Hewlett-Packard.The research by HP Labs analysed 22 million tweets and separated “influence” from “popularity” by assessing engagement with followers rather than the number
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BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans
Last Updated on Monday, 5 July 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Monday, 5 July 2010 11:00
An anonymous reader writes ‘The BBC has accidentally insulted its Facebook followers by revealing a version of a new website which wasn’t yet ready for public consumption and in which it referred to its social media followers as ‘saddos.’ The same
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Drilling Down: On Twitter, a Close-Knit Network
Last Updated on Monday, 5 July 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Monday, 5 July 2010 07:00
On average, it takes visiting just 3.32 friends of friends for users to find one of their own followers.
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Utah AG Announces Execution on Twitter
Last Updated on Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:20
Today marked an evolution of sorts for Twitter. It’s no longer just for following your favorite celebrity rants or for informing your followers you’re having a ham sandwich or just took a shower. And self-promotion on Twitter seems so yesterday.
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Man’s life to be controlled by Twitter users for one week
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:40
If you could control another person’s life for one week, what would you make them do? You might want to start thinking about that because starting Monday, an advertising recruiter named David Perez will do whatever his Twitter followers tell him to do
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William Shatner to star in Twitter-inspired TV show
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:20 Written by External Post Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:20
CBS will air a sitcom in which William Shatner plays a cranky old fogie whose rants are captured by a Twitter-obsessed son with a million followers. No, we’re not kidding. The program is based on the real-life Twitter feed shitmydadsays
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