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Twitter Blog Posts
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- Social Media
- 3rd Jul 2009
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Paying for Popularity on Twitter
Popularity on Twitter is gauged in the amount of followers you can achieve. It’s a sad fact of life, but ultimately unavoidable.
There are many tactics employed by individuals and businesses to garner more disciples. Of course the organic method of following and re-following is the most widely acceptable. Some will spam the system with messages containing numerous hash tags (# – denotes a trend topic) and wait for people to find them. There are others who employ a robot system to simply follow thousands of people discussing certain topics, in the hope that a percentage will reciprocate.
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- Social Media
- 13th May 2011
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First Injunction on Social Media: A Sign of Things to Come?
As the issue of injunctions and super injunctions have affected traditional media in the past, it appears that the prevention of information being publicised is now applicable to social media too. So, what kind of an effect will this have on the newest and most popular platform on the internet?
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- Social Media
- 12th Aug 2009
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Anglo-American Tensions on Twitter
As a nation we generally tend to go for the glass half empty view; inwardly criticising the country’s infrastructure, governance and weather is one thing, but when the attack is from overseas, we Brits aren’t shy in responding.
Humorists on both side of the pond will no doubt enjoy the increasingly personal (and patently ridiculous) attacks from right-wing supporters in the US on our NHS. Our “Orwellian” system of deciding who gains free medical help is indicative of a socialist society, putting the UK in league with Soviet Russia, apparently.
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- News
- 21st Jul 2011
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Twitter Raises $800 Million to Pay off Investors and Grow Advertising Business
It’s been a turbulent time at Twitter HQ recently, what with the emergence of Google +, and search engines dropping full integration of their real time updates [See: Search Engine Syndication Woes Continue for Twitter].With current investors looking for a return on their initial investment, and the microblogging company looking at new ways to monetise from its popularity, Twitter are looking to raise $800 million, pushing its value to $8 billion according to reports.
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- Social Media
- 7th Jul 2009
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Twitter to be Listed in Collins English Dictionary
It’s been widely reported that Twitter will be added to the Collins English Dictionary when the 30th anniversary edition is published later this year.
Twitter is going to be entered as both a verb and noun with the following definitions:
Noun: “a website where people can post short messages about their current activities”
Verb: “to write short messages on the Twitter website” Read more
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- Social Media
- 20th May 2011
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How to use Free Twitter Buttons and Logos on my Site
Utilising official Twitter branding on your site is a great way of associating yourself with what is becoming one of the most recognisable brands online. Another advantage of doing this and linking to your own or company’s Twitter account is that it gives you a mark of authentication, helping potential followers know this is your official account.
Luckily Twitter gives permission to use its branding on websites for free and can be utilised fairly quickly, helping to give your site a little something extra.
Here is a simple set by step guide on how to utilise official Twitter buttons and logos on your own site.
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- Analytics
- 2nd Aug 2011
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Tracking Social Media in Google Analytics - New and Improved Functionality!
New functionality in Google Analytics includes the ability to track social interactions on your site and easily see data for this in the Analytics interface. The Google ‘+1′ button is automatically tracked and buttons such as ‘Tweet this’, ‘Follow us’ and ‘Like’ can be tracked alongside this by implementing some code on your site.This functionality is only visible in the new version of Google Analytics, which is now available to everyone, so I’d recommend having a look around and getting used to this interface as it has so much extra functionality. It also only works with the latest version of tracking code, known as the asynchronous code, this is the one that goes before the </head> tag.
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- News
- 31st May 2011
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Twitter Distancing Themselves from Third Party Services
Two stories surfacing today have revealed that Twitter look set to launch their own photo sharing service, as well as possibly acquire AdGrok, the contextual keyword bidding platform, if rumours are to be believed.
Now given that Twitter seems to be mentioned in no context other than super injunctions and court orders (for what their users have been tweeting about), it comes as a nice surprise to hear their name synonymous with new services and possible buy-outs, other than the murky waters of online libel laws.
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- Social Media
- 9th Aug 2011
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#riotcleanup shows the Other Side of Social Media in the London Riots
A few days after social media was being lambasted in the UK press for its role in the London riots, new media has emerged as a saint over night for its efforts in helping community groups clean up some of the damage that has been caused.Whilst this really is a case of being two sides of the same coin, there’s no doubt that sites such as Twitter and Facebook have played a significant role throughout the recent rioting. As the police continue in their efforts to keep the streets safe, good hearted citizens are offering their help with clean up operations in all of the affected areas of London using the hash tag #riotcleanup on Twitter.
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- 21st Mar 2011
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Born on March 21st 2006, the social networking site Twitter was quickly embraced worldwide as a way of communicating short messages to huge numbers of followers. As Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday, we take a look at the ways it has been used.
Whether it’s tweeting about random irreverence, revealing breaking news stories or helping to get messages out to the wider world, Twitter has been responsible for some memorable moments and at the centre of its fair share of controversies since2006. Let’s take a look at how it has helped shape the 21st Century, what we talk about and the way we do it has changed significantly as a result.
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- Social Media
- 15th Jul 2009
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TechCrunch aren’t usually averse to courting controversy and so it has proved once again. Yesterday a mysterious hacker mailed Michael Arrington’s company offering up some invaluable information on Twitter.
Since then, TechCrunch have clearly been wrestling with the idea of how much information they should release. Arrington goes to great lengths to assure everyone that the mountain of private files and other non-business related details won’t be published, at least not by his company; however he is going to be exposing business related dealings in the coming days.
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