Twitter Activists You Should Be Following
November 13, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Activists You Should Be Following – The HuffingtonPost is asking whether you are “Tired of reading tweets about breakfast and balloon boys?”
And if you are, They have compiled a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following including some of the top activists on Twitter, many of whom you might not even know about.
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Twitter Will Replace SMS
November 2, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
When asked for his thoughts on The Future of Twitter, Loïc Le Meur the French entrepreneur, blogger, founder and CEO of the popular Twitter and Facebook application and site Seesmic.com predicted that Twitter Will Replace SMS and chat applications for millions of people.
Le Meur, answering questions about The Future of Twitter at the recent Twitter Conference in LA, also predicted that:
- It will be a hub of hyperlocal news sites with Twitter geotagging features
- Corporations will have entire teams devoted to Twitter and status updates
- Google and Bing will be the dominant ways to search Twitter
- Google will have its own Twitter and won’t acquire Twitter
- Promos by brands and retailers will have big success especially for last minute deals
You can click on Twitter Will Replace SMS to read all 30+ predictions for The Future of Twitter…
Twitter’s Business Model
October 28, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter’s Business Model: Numerous commentators in the Twitterverse regularly comment on and criticise Twitter for a lack of both not generating revenues and a business model.
But according to an interesting article in Harvard Business entitled Twitter’s Business Model: Brilliant or Non-Existent? “there is a difference between not generating income and lack of a business model.” Read more
Twitter’s Vision For The Future
October 23, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Photo: GETTY – Twitter’s co-founder, Evan Williams, talked exclusively to the Daily Telegraph about Twitter’s Vision For The Future, the future of online search and his plans for improving the micro-blogging platform.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Evan Williams doesn’t often give interviews. He usually leaves that to Biz Stone, his colleague and Twitter’s co-founder. Apparently, they found this out the hard way as they chased him down the stairs at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco earlier this week. Read more
Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List
October 21, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List – Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media’s John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 in San Francisco late Tuesday.
In a lengthy and broad ranging discussion covering a lot of interesting topics Evan Williams says Twitter traffic may have plateaued, but only temporarily but said that they think they have new features coming out that will change that.
According to an article in TechCrunch.com, the most interesting bit came at the end when conference founder Tim O’Reilly asked a question from the audience. O’Reilly asked if it was time to retire the Suggested User List (SUL) with the new Twitter Lists feature coming? Williams made it very clear that he absolutely agrees that it’s time. When Lists comes out and are working properly, they plan to kill the SUL, Williams says.
You can click on Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List to read the full TechCrunch article.
Twitter Launch Shows New Focus on Phones
October 17, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Launch Shows New Focus on Phones according to an article in Techradar.com, a reference to Twitter’s launch of its Japanese Mobile Site which was reported by us in our article entitled Twitter Launches Japanese Mobile Site.
According to Techradar, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone made a surprising admission at a press event this week when he admitted the company’s future is likely to rely heavily on users accessing the site on their phones. Read more
Twitter Launches Japanese Mobile Site
October 15, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Twitter Launches Japanese Mobile Site – According to Forbes.com and Yahoo News, India, the popular microblogging service on Thursday launched a Japan-based mobile version, hoping to penetrate a country where other U.S. social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have failed to capture much ground.
Japanese is Twitter’s sole foreign language platform so far, and the company’s efforts here indicate it’s serious about making it in Japan. Twitter teamed up with Tokyo-based Internet firm Digital Garage Inc.
While Twitter already operates a mobile site in English, many of its features are incompatible with Japanese language usage. Instead, many mobile users in Japan had been relying on third-party platforms like “movatwitter. Read more
Twitter Losing Out to Facebook in the US
October 15, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Losing Out to Facebook in the US – The DailyTelegraph, UK reports that Twitter is losing ground to Facebook in the US, as the social network nears 100 million unique monthly users, according to new figures.
Facebook grew by over three million unique visitors during September, according to the comScore’s US monthly data. It went from 92.2 million unique visitors in August to 95.5 million uniques in September. Read more
Twitter Founder Quashes Video Rumours
October 14, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Founder Quashes Video Rumours – Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, has quashed rumours that the microblogging service may add video functionality to the service.
In our article entitled “Twitter To Introduce Live Video-tweeting we stated that according to the Daily Telegraph.co.uk., Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernise the site.
In an email to technology website, Mashable, Mr Stone said: “[There will be] no video hosting. 140 characters of text including spaces. You know the drill.” Read more
Twitter in Talks with Google and Microsoft
October 13, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Twitter in Talks with Google and Microsoft to add real-time tweets to search results. According to the daily Telegraph, UK, Twitter is reported to be in “advanced negotiations” with Google and Microsoft about licensing its data feed for use in their search engines.
Also, according to the All Things Digital technology blog, Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google separately about striking data-mining deals, in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines. Read more
