Currently, there are many third-party applications out there that provide analytics to allow you to check out how influential a Twitter handle is, namely TweetGrade, Twitalyzer and TweetStats. Expected to launch by the end of 2010, Twitter will also provide users real-time analytics and data so users can find out which of their tweets are most successful, which tweets caused people to unfollow them, and who are their most influential re-tweeters. This is definitely great news and particularly useful for businesses in finding out what they should be doing more ...
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Aug 21 2010
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Twitter Users Are Most Influential Online
@AmeliaChen enjoys indulging in her penchant for all things social media, branding, and web design. Citizen of the web since 2000. In her free time, she designs paper goods, does social work and is trying to maintain a healthy diet. Twitter is a useful platform to build a brand's reputation online – however, a brand isn’t only build by marketers themselves, but it also depends on how consumers perceive it to be. Through user-generated content like tweets, blog posts, Facebook updates, conservations with friends and product reviews, ...
Aug 28 2009
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Twitter Experiences Strong Growth in Asia, Latin America and Africa
Undoubtedly, Twitter has some catching up to do when compared with the big guns, notably Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Nonetheless, its exponential growth so far is a one of the reasons why Twitter bird can still be chirping so cheerfully. ComScore recently released an interesting chart reflecting the micro-blogging site's popularity across every continent. Strong growth is experienced in Asia, Latin America and Africa, but we might be seeing some saturation in North America. In June, Twitter captured 11 million visitors from Europe, 7 million from Asia Pacific, and 4 million from ...
Aug 28 2009
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@BritneySpears Fans Swarmed Times Square For Twitter Contest
Yesterday, hundreds of people gathered at Times Square to catch a glimpse of Britney Spears. The reason why she was there? To award a lucky fan front row tickets to her show last night at Madison Square Garden. Britney spent her day tweeting hints (mostly related to her songs) on where fans could find her. @larabuongiorno was the first to tell Britney’s clown, “I Seek Britney” and won 2 ringside seats to her show, The Circus. Other fans who made it there only managed to capture literally a glimpse of her as ...
Aug 28 2009
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NEW: Businesses on Twitter will have Strategic Statistic Tools
By the end of this year, Twitter will have strategic statistic tools available for businesses on its site. This tool definitely comes with a price, which has not been discussed thus far. Co-founder, Biz Stone told the Venturebeat blog that these new accounts will include statistics and analytics, which will help businesses measure how effective their use of Twitter is. A handful of business accounts, not named by Biz are currently trying out this new statistical tool. Despite raising $55 million in venture funding and currently servicing 44 million users, Twitter is still ...
Aug 27 2009
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NEW: Twitter Tags Location to Your Tweets
Twitter is planning to tag location to your tweets more accurately. Tagging location right now depends on users to fill in their current location manually. With people putting their location as "at the top of your mind!" or "in your heart", it doesn't really make up to reliable location data. This new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to your tweet for tracking of your true location. For fellow users to see where you are tweeting from, you will need to activate this new feature, which is switched off ...
Aug 28 2009
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#fact :Trending on Twitter for 3 Days and Still Counting
It has been more than 3 days since #fact became one of the top few trending topic. Nothing seems to be snatching its spotlight just yet. It's a simple word with a hashtag but the content under this topic has been a pleasure to read. Similar to what we did for trending topics, #iwillneverforget and #whentwitterwasdown, we'll be consolidating the best tweets containing #fact (whether real facts or not, i dont know). Here ya go! Best Tweets @JaneyHutchinson #fact 16.There are 6000 species of flies in Australia! @_Mickoebora #fact No word in ...
Aug 28 2009
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Singapore: #ndrsg a Trending Topic
It seems like Singapore's National Day has been greatly boosted via social media this year. The National Day Rally (NDR) speech was broadcasted online via the same platform where the National Day Parade 09 was aired just last week. Except this time round, Facebook was not the only social media site involved but Twitter too. #ndrsg is now a Trending Topic! Inspired by President Barack Obama perhaps but no matter what, social media has once again proven itself as a powerful tool to reach massive audiences. Live Streaming of the NDR speech was accompanied ...
Nov 15 2009
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I am following -16 people on Twitter
My Twitter, @Sarah_Chong might not have many followers but I am definitely following less people than anyone else on it. Initially, I was following -3 people but after refreshing, it turned to -16! Try beating that! Okay maybe not, it is just some bug on Twitter that is causing a following count failure. How many of you are getting this strange experience? Is your following less than mine? Share in the comment box!
Aug 28 2009
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To #India: Happy Independence Day!
It is rare to see a Twitter trending topic about Asia. But today, the Twitterverse has to give it to a group of patriotic Indians who have tweeted enough to make #india a trending topic. India's Independence Day is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule, which also marks the birth of this sovereign nation since 1947. Interestingly, August 15 is not only important to India, but also the world. The meaning behind this important date cannot be wholly verbalized. Learn more as this video flashes back to today's ...
Aug 28 2009
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Project Retweet: Full News Coverage
For the early adopters, they would probably remember how it was like before @replies was conceived. There wasn’t a proper way to reply to “what you are doing” tweets. Twitter expected you to tell people what you just ate for brunch without wanting a response. But the tweeple wanted more interaction and started putting an “@” in front of the username they were responding to, followed by the message. Just when Twitter has integrated @replies into the Twittersphere, another convention came up: Retweeting. Third party apps started supporting the retweeting feature quite ...
Aug 28 2009
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Twitter Tools: Top Experiences 430,000% Traffic Improvement
Congratulations to Tweetmeme, Twitpic and bit.ly! The month of July has seen great traffic growth improvement in these three mentioned tools. On the other hand, it has not been too great for Twitter, which is experiencing a flattened growth curve. Among the three widely used Twitter tools. Tweetmeme claims leader spot with a 85% month over month improvement in traffic. To date, it's seeing a whopping 433,418.32% improvement in yearly traffic! In second place is bit.ly with a 20.11% month over month improvement. Third is Twitpic with 9.6%. These numbers prove that tweeple are increasingly ...
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