Spotify has rolled out the ‘follow’ button globally, which it first announced in December, further adding to its reputation as the Twitter for music.
The updated music app is now fantastically addictive, with users getting continuing suggestions and a feeds of songs and artists.
As news of Margaret Thatcher’s death broke yesterday lunchtime it was ITV that won the race on Twitter after the Press Association sent out its historic news flash while the BBC had the most read story.
That sparked the touch paper for more than one million mentions of the former Conservative Party leader, and three time British Prime Minister, on Twitter in the four hours after the announcement. Read More
Still smoldering after Mitt Romney’s defeat to Barack Obama, a defeat that was in no small part down to Obama’s superior digital campaigning strategy, the GOP are looking to ramp up their own digital presence.
They are taking inspiration though from an unlikely source in the emerging digital media giant Buzzfeed, which recently launched here in the UK.
Obama’s digital agency Blue State Digital has hired 16 digital strategists and technologists from the Obama 2012 election campaign team.
Most senior among the hires is Joe Rospars, chief digital strategist for Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, who will take on the newly created role of chief executive for the WPP-owned digital agency Blue State Digital, which has played a central role in both Obama’s presidential victories. Read More
With more than 400 million tweets sent each day and growing fast, its top 10 users, led by Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, have more than 275 million followers alone.
It has worked itself so seamlessly into our lives that now no major event seems to take place without there being some kind of Twitter element, from celebrity break-ups to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the budget.
With talk of an IPO in 2014 and a valuation in the $9-$11bn (£5-7bn) ballpark, it is starting to generate the revenues that at the start people never thought the microblogging service could make and is on course to generate more than $800m (£527m) in 2014. Read More
So George Osborne (@george_osborne) has chosen budget day to reach for his virtual tin hat and join the legion of tweeting politicians. The twitterverse can be an unforgiving place for politicians. Ask Ed Balls who back in 2011 tweeted his own name (presumably while searching for tweets about himself). Although his Twitter skills have since improved that’s probably his most tweeted post with 6,000 tweets two years on. Read More
I watched in awe as Italian election results unfolded. Bersani won a majority in the Lower House, Berlusconi in the Senate. It’s a deadlock, a stalemate. It’s Italy, a country where the future looks like a Russian roulette.
Right and Left, Evil and Good. Apparently that’s the oldest flight of all. However, this time the tragedy is starring a third actor, or should I say a comedian. That was Beppe Grillo’s professionem.
Two years ago he decided to ‘swoop’ on the Italian political scene, launch an anarchic Movement (the 5 Star Movement), draw in droves of voters (stealing them from the two main parties) and dominate an ailing socioeconomic ecosystem. Read More
The Republican National Committee is scouring Silicon Valley in an attempt to find top talent to hire as its new Chief Technology Officer, in a clear attempt to challenge the digital supremacy of President Obama and the Democrat Party.
The GOP’s effort to use digital technology to propel Mitt Romney to the White House failed in 2012, with their voter data system ORCA crashing on polling day.
Hello and welcome to this week’s Espresso of Innovation; a roundup of the hottest news and strongest stories from the world of creativity and technology filtered into a quick shot of inspiration. This week we’re talking about newsjacking, but by the time you’ve read this, its timeliness might have expired. Read More
Last month there was a report saying that Twitter had officially been valued at more than $9bn following an offer to staff by asset management firm BlackRock. That provided a new valuation of the microblogging firm, which had previously been valued in the $8bn and $11bn ballpark. Nice park.
Last night the Wall Street Journal published a story where a writer spent a week trying to write a column “that proved Twitter wasn’t worth $10 billion”.
You can understand why. This is a company if you look at its current revenues isn’t a $10bn company, but everything else points to this being the case, which is why the writer gave up. Read More
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