This should be useful Twitter has launched a new account that is dedicated to spotlighting some of the best practices and innovative uses of Twitter by journalists and newsrooms.
Twitter says the account will focus on “innovative Twitter use across all types of news & journalism – not just breaking”. Interesting that it comes in a week when Twitter said that it wasn’t a media company. Read More
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So it’s finally happened; Facebook has filed for ‘the largest technology IPO in Wall Street history’. Everything about Facebook is immense; almost 850 million users and 2.7 billion likes and comments every day. As recently as the summer of 2008, Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating the 100 millionth user, that means 750 million people signed up in 3.5 years alone. Then there’s Twitter, hitting 500 million users any day now, not to mention Linkedin, who reported 135 million members in November 2011. Read More
There are ten users on Twitter now with more than ten million followers. Nine are celebrities and eight are women. Talk about your girl tweet power.
Lady Gaga is still way out in front and almost two followers million ahead of Justin Bieber who is in the number two spot. Barack Obama is the only non-celebrity individual in the top 20 and adds weight to the idea that the 2012 presidential race will be a Twitter election. Read More
According to a study from research firm Semiocast while the US is still easily first place on Twitter in terms of accounts, with around 107.7 million in total, Brazil is now the second biggest nation on the microblogging service.
There are now 33.3 million Brazilians with Twitter accounts, which is enough to push it passed Japan on 29.9 million. Read More
This presidential election year is going to be the Twitter election, according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. Well he would say that to a degree wouldn’t he? But there is more to his claim than just a nice ring to the phrase.
It isn’t just the mass of tweets we saw around Obama’s State of the Union address, but as much how certain Republic candidates are using Twitter and social media to compete, which has seen Ron Paul for instance declared the Republican social media candidate. Read More
Good read in The Times today from the pen of Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton. The sometimes violent and reformed(ish) premiership bad boy writes about his love for Twitter and how it has helped him get his voice across to the world after he became disillusioned with the national media and its portrayal of him.
It’s interesting as highlights how Barton and others have seized the platform that Twitter provides and made it their own. Making it a place where they tell their stories in their own voices. Read More
Identity is a funny thing. So many things govern who we are as individuals, but outward, visible identity often drives our actions. There are the perceptions others have of us from our outward appearance, how we choose to live, what we choose to say and all the various queues from body language to political affiliation. Read More
I’m sure you all remember the case of Paul Chambers, the 27-year-old accountant who lost his appeal for jokingly tweeting he would blow Robin Hood airport up. That gave us #IAmSpartacus, which went viral on Twitter and proved to be a social media object lesson.
Not everyone, however, remembers the story and Leigh Van Bryan certainly didn’t as he tweeted about “destroying America” prior to a holiday trip to the US. That was enough to get him the Jack Bauer treatment from the Department of Homeland Security who flagged him as a potential threat. Read More
Twitter has become the de facto location for most company’s social media customer service, and it’s becoming more and more common for a brand to have a full time customer service team manning a dedicated Twitter account to deal with customer complaints and enquiries.
It’s not hard to see why; it’s quick, convenient, and simple, and has a huge advantage over traditional lines of customer service in that it’s ‘pro-active’. Using Twitter you can monitor andlisten to customer complaints, and offer assistance before the aggrieved customer has even realized there’s someone listening. Read More
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