Posts Tagged Twitter
New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center
Twitter has just rolled out the new version of its homepage that new potential users and users who are not logged in will see. The design has been completely overhauled from the previous version which was fairly cluttered (see it at the bottom of the page). This new version is sleek and features trending topics by the minute, hour and day.
Most importantly, the new version features search functionality front and center. This way people who aren’t even Twitter users yet can search for things being said on the service. And results are nicely placed on the same page below the main area. Read the rest of this entry »
The Top 12 Social Media Stories This Week
Posted by assichadi in Articles, Google, Social Media, Twitter on July 27th, 2009
Social media was even busier than normal as we got new info on some of the web’s most anticipated products. The first screenshots of Firefox 3.7, the revelation that 100,000 invites for Google Wave arrive in September, and the removal of the Alice in Wonderland trailer from YouTube made headlines this week.
Social media was not without controversy this week, though. Digg was engulfed in controversy when it changed its short URL service, the DiggBar, early this week, and a contest by Electronic Arts, “Sin to Win,” resulted in a Twitter backlash. Here are this week’s top 12 social media stories: Read the rest of this entry »
HOW TO: Translate Your Tweets
Ever wanted to Tweet in multiple languages? While you could (roughly) translate your Tweets by pasting them into Google Translate, new service Twinslator wants to make it even easier, allowing you to write a tweet, translate it into another language and (optionally) post both messages. That’s all there is to it: a simple app for one straightforward purpose. (Incidentally, the translation is powered by Google Translate.) Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter Launches a Twitter 101 Guide for Business
We know that Twitter’s rising rapidly in popularity. We also know that a huge number of Twitter users don’t stick around. So what’s a company with a user retention problem to do? Launch a guide to using its own product, of course.
Just minutes ago, Twitter released Twitter 101 for Business, a guide for getting started with using the Twitter service. It covers the basics of Twitter, how to get started, the lingo, and includes case studies. Here’s how Twitter describes its value to businesses on its new Twitter 101 website: Read the rest of this entry »
Digsby Passes 1 Million Users; 3 Million IM and Social Media Accounts
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter on July 24th, 2009
The social IM client Digsby can not only connect you to your AIM and your Gtalk accounts, but log you onto Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, too. A recent release fixed its RAM-eating problem , and now it seems that all of that hard work (and RAM-fixing) is paying off.
The company announced this afternoon that it reached a major milestone: 1,000,000 users. Considering that Digsby only launched 18 months ago, that’s an average growth rate of over 50,000 users per month – not too shabby for an IM startup. Read the rest of this entry »
Bing, Twitter, And A Backpack Full Of Cash (Hopefully For Beer)
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 22nd, 2009
You gotta hand it to the Bing guys, they just don’t stop coming up with kooky ideas to drive interest in their little search engine (or whatever you want to call it) that could. The latest is a new contest starting tomorrow on Twitter that will see one winner a day walk away with a Bing backpack and a $500 Visa cash card to use for back-to-school shopping.
But reading over the fine print, it doesn’t appear that you need to use the money for back-to-school shopping. And in fact, the rules state that you have to be over 18 to enter the contest, so unless parents are doing it for their kids, or it’s all college kids entering, it doesn’t really seem all that student-friendly. And that’s good, because it will increase my chances of winning and using the $500 on something more desirable than protractors — like maybe beer.
HOW TO: Start a Petition on Twitter
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 21st, 2009
Petitions are one of the most valuable tools organizers have to gather support for a cause and demonstrate the strength behind it. Even if they’re not always ultimately successful in enacting their goal, petitions are an amazing way to bring people together around an issue, spread awareness, and show others how many people care about a cause.
The web has made petitions easier to execute, by replacing knocking on doors with a clipboard and pen with emailing supporters a link, and Twitter has now made them more likely to go viral. Below are four startups that help facilitate petitions over Twitter. Got something on your mind that you wish would change? Why not start a Twitter petition and rally others to your cause! Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting
Twitter is immensely useful as a utility for joining in the global conversation and sharing thoughts, opinions, information, and media. But for new users, there’s also a fairly steep learning curve. For many people new to Twitter, the site doesn’t immediately “make sense” and it can be a bit daunting. But there are things those users can do to make the service more useful from the get go.
Below are five steps for new users to take in order to make the Twitter experience more enjoyable from the beginning. New users have both third party services and built-in tools at their disposal to make Twitter work for them, and this post highlights some of the best.
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Twitter Gets Even More Media Love Than Google
Have you noticed how often Twitter gets mentioned on the news, TV shows, in the movies, in newspapers? Well, all that buzz can be converted into cold hard cash, and if you look at it that way, Twitter is already filthy rich.
News monitoring service VMS estimates that Twitter’s mentions in the media were worth $48 million over the past 30 days. That’s about 80 times more than Bing got in the last 30 days ($573,834); in fact, that’s more than Google gets, and Google is a verb, used everywhere on a daily basis.
@Biz Explains Twitter’s Security Woes
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 16th, 2009
Earlier today some confidential documents from Twitter began floating around the blogosphere. It appears the documents were obtained via a hacked employee Google account from several months ago.
Do you think this hack on Twitter will have any lasting impact? Tell us what you think.
To help explain the incident, and try to squash the potential hazardous pr matter, Biz Stone (@Biz) updated the company blog to address certain issues stemming from the hack. In an effort minimize the boredom; I’ll only post the meaningful parts:
Is your Twitter account safe?
“It’s important to note that the stolen documents which where downloaded and offered to various blogs and publications are not Twitter user accounts nor were any user accounts compromised (except for a screenshot of one person’s account and we contacted that person and recommended changing their password). This was not a hack on the Twitter service, it was a personal attack followed by the theft of private company documents.”
Should I be concerned with the security of Google Docs?
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