Twitter has released its 2010 year in review. Under the technology trend category, Apple took 4 out of 10 possible spots. The top tech spot belonged to 'Apple iPad'. The other three most mentioned Apple products were 'Apple iOS' (3rd), 'Apple iPhone' (4th) and 'MacBook Air' (9th). The next technology company that was most mentioned is Google. 'Google Android' ranked 3rd and Google Instant managed to squeeze into the tech chart at 10th place. 'New Twitter' was also in the list as users embraced and celebrated Twitter's new design. The video did ...
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Dec 31 2010
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Google says China is Heart of the Internet
Back in March, Google shut its search engine and redirected Chinese users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site. The action was triggered by Google’s unwillingness to continue to censor information on Google.cn. Ever since the Google-China saga, Google’s market share slipped from 26.8 percent to 24.6 percent in the third quarter. On the other hand, Baidu’s market share increased to 72.9 percent in the third quarter from a previous 71 percent. To ensure Google has a role to play in China’s ever increasing Internet development, Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of ...
Dec 12 2010
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Ireland Launches Twitter Campaign
The Irish Tourism team launched a Twitter campaign called “My Irish 140” which aims to encourage those living in the UK with Irish heritage to tweet their connection with Ireland. It has a simple concept. All users need to do is to tweet about their Irish connection and tagged it with #makesmeirish. For example: Warm friendly people, fresh, clean air and breath-taking scenery, the buzz of Dublin alive with music, proper Guiness, etc. #makesmeirish Plus, users who share their thoughts also stand a chance to win a prize. “We’re giving two lucky people ...
Dec 7 2010
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Hashable Makes Twitter #Intro Social
Penn Olson features start-ups. Find out more here. Twitter introduces relevant people to its users through an algorithm. It’s good... but shouldn’t introductions be made through a real connector? It should be more personal and social. It shouldn’t be a one way event where you hit the follow button and hope that the person you just followed notices you. I’m sure you have experienced it before. Tweeting the person you just followed seems a little weird. For those who haven’t, here is an example: “Hi @ameliachen, this is Willis. I just followed you. Hoping ...
Nov 29 2010
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Twitter is Already a News Network
We wrote about the possibility that Twitter may launch its own news network. It is time to quash the rumor. There will not be any. “Reports about those plans are greatly exaggerated,” Matt Graves of Twitter told Penn Olson. “Twitter itself is already a news network,” he added. It’s true because we often receive first hand breaking news from eyewitnesses of earthquake and disasters in tweet forms. Even events (like Grammy), political struggles or a simple birthday party gets its own hashtag on Twitter. Twitter didn’t plan to be a news ...
Nov 28 2010
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Twitter has No Long-term Vision? Think Again
"Twitter has no long-term vision yet,” Dick Costolo who took over as CEO last month, told The Telegraph. The reason for a foggy vision is because millions of users are defining Twitter’s function and purpose on a daily basis. It is hard to nail down what Twitter really is. Twitter has experienced explosive growth over the years and it is evident that users have played a big part in defining Twitter. (Check out our post on ‘14 cool things people do on Twitter’) Twitter has become one of my top news sources powered by ...
Nov 25 2010
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Twitter may create News Network
Twitter has another plan and this time, it’s a news network. Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone hopes to leverage the vast quantities of information that it helps its users share to create a news network. He told Reuters. This news network would be in partnership with several existing news organizations and would be open, Stone said. The idea could be a similar one to @EarlyBird, which now has over 200,000 followers looking for deals on Twitter. News network would be an additional service for users to receive quality news from a single ...
Nov 24 2010
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How Marketers Are Using Social Media in 2010
Flowtown has released another infographic based on research by Michael Steltzer, founder of SocialMediaExaminer that gives us a good overview of how businesses are latching onto the marketing opportunity presented by the growth of social media. Adoption of social media in marketing is still in its nascent stage, but we can see that many businesses have come on board the bandwagon and are perhaps more conservative with their approach: spending 1-10 hours on social media in a week (that boils down to a maximum of 2 hours on social media per ...
Nov 23 2010
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Twitter’s Plans: Reputation Score, Location Ads, Ping and More
Twitter has 370,000 people signing up as new users every day. With a robust user growth rate, Twitter can now better focus on its business model. During the past few months, we have seen several creative ad products introduced by Twitter, namely @EarlyBird, Promoted Tweets and Trends. These products have enjoyed success and Twitter has plans to introduce more. We have consolidated a quick list of products and features which Twitter might introduce in the future: 1. Location-based advertising: Co-founder Biz Stone told Bits that location-based advertising is one area that has ...
Nov 22 2010
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Twitter to Provide Analytics Tools
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 ...
Nov 19 2010
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Automakers Hire Twitter Influencers as Brand Ambassadors
If you are an influential Twitter user, you might be approached by a major automaker to be its brand ambassador. Ford, Lexus and BMW are some brands, which are hiring Twitter influencers as an alternative to hiring celebrities. Like in any social groups, there are people who’re more influential than the others. Social networking sites have made those influencers more visible. Hiring Twitter stars has several advantages. They are definitely more affordable and using the same investment, brands could hire more influencers. Their combined reach could even be stronger than a celebrity’s. ...
Nov 15 2010
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The Awesome Size of the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Internet is full of information. According to the infographic created by TheRoxor, the Internet has over 1.9 billion users and 5 million terabytes worth of data. A huge chunk of data, comes from social-networking sites, wikis, news sites and blogs. This data is increasing exponentially as Internet users can create content even when they are on the move. My first observation: With so much content on the web, we need organizers to help us congregate and/or analyze these data. That is why companies like Sprout Social, Twezr and KISSmetrics are ...
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