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Oil company asks @BPGlobalPR to clarify that its tweets are not coming from official BP sources.
…in fact I put together a collection of fake and funny Twitter accounts last year. Because Twitter has proven to be such a great platform for satire, the site has developed a very clear policy for parody, commentary, and fan accounts. These Tweeters can’t use the exact same name as the subject they’re parodying and their bio must explicitly state that the account is not associated with the real person, company, or organization.
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20 Funniest Fake Twitter Accounts - Tom’s Guide
As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network’s value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The results, please…
…’s value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The firm found that most folks go to entertainment sites and other social networks. According to Hitwise, about…
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Where do Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.?
One of the games that digital prognosticators love to play is guessing when and how Twitter will make money.
…One of the games that digital prognosticators love to play is guessing when and how Twitter will make money. We’ve taken particular joy in lambasting one of our favorite social networks for absorbing investor dollars like a black hole. But all of the fun and games may be coming to an end now that rumors are swirling of a Twitter Ad platform that will be unveiled at South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive.According to MediaPost, Anamitra Banerji, head of product management and monetization at Twitter, has confirmed that the service is working on an advertising platform. This is following a panel on interactive advertising hosted by Seth Goldstein, CEO of socialmedia.com, where Banerji reportedly unveiled Twitter’s plans in a relatively vague fashion. According to Goldstein and MediaPost, the plan is to let brands and companies interact with consumers and capitalize on trending topics (can’t they already do this?), as well as ensure that the delivered content is “relevant and useful.” Banji also indicated that…
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Twitter Ads Imminent, Might Actually Make Money
Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey, who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. The legal-pad sketch of the idea that would become Twitter has been noticed before, but we thought we’d ask him about it in a little more detail.
…re bound to the computer, so it really limited the interestingness of the messages.So that document was around 2000-2001 when I really got into IM and a service called LiveJournal. And it was crystallizing the thought: What if you have LiveJournal, but you just make it more live? You have these people watching your journal, but it all happens in real time, and you can update it from anywhere. That document was an exploration of that concept.
When did you first try to build out the idea?
I tried it back in 2000 with the first device that RIM made — the RIM 850, which was the predecessor to the BlackBerry. A very simple squat little e-mail device. It had four lines of text and a typical BlackBerry keyboard. They were like $400, and it would just do e-mail. I wrote a very simple program to listen to an e-mail address and take any updates from me and send them out to a list of my friends. And my friends could reply to that e-mail and tell me what…
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Part II of a fantastic interview. Jack Dorsey speaks about Twitter’s contours as a communications medium, its evolution and how its strong suit — so far, at least — is in exposing the present moment, rather than the past.
…… trending globally, you can limit that locally and figure out what’s trending within a five-mile radius of you, or you can use it socially and figure out what’s trending within your own social network. That’s where the newness is. I just haven’t seen anything like that before.When I think of Twitter, I think of — it’s really hard to define because we’re still coming up with the vocabulary — but I think it’s defined a new behavior that’s very different than what we’ve seen before. So yeah: new medium.
What’s been one of the most surprising steps in Twitter’s evolution for you?
Well, we really haven’t changed the application or feature set in over two years. It’s pretty much maintained the original vision since Day One. And that really adds a lot of weight to the concept and how much desire there is for communication of this sort.
Back in the day we thought, well, if we get to this many users or this level of relevancy in the mainstream, we’re going to have to add a bunch of features, and make this…
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Twitter Creator On Twitter Ecosystem, Journalism and Spam
As we learned last summer in Iran, whenever a dictatorial regime senses trouble in Totalitarianville, one of the first things it does is tighten its grip on the media. And whenever the thick walls of censorship go up, Twitter is there to slip through the cracks.
…Lexihel I do not live in Venezuela so I cannot speak too closely, but my girlfriend does and I talk to her daily Via phone calls, Facebook or emails. From her I know Chavez is ruining that country. From her she told me he canceled a prime T.V. show that was ‘Anti-Chavez’. From her I know many citizens have a hatred of him, but I also know that his war seems to be with the middle class. She has told me that the lower class still seems to support Chavez. I have seen video’s on youtube and the way the police are so violent to the students demonstrating is outrageous. Reply Tin said 9:51PM on 2-04-2010ahReply manuel said 10:26PM on 2-04-2010Definitely some members of the Chavez-internet-Army are writing comments here…Reply BILL-F said 10:56PM on 2-04-2010YOU SAID: “I’m typing this from Venezuela, yeah, a troubled country, butbeautiful and peaceful indeed.”Yes, Venezuela is a beautiful country, but peaceful? really? morethan 1,000 people die every week there, because of street crime and what is Chavez is…
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Twitter Undermines Hugo Chavez’s Media Takeover
The Chairman Microsoft, Bill Gates has recently joined Twitter with a two word “hello world” bawl at Ryan Seacrest.
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was a great year to explore new gadgets and work among electronic gadgets. There were many revolutionary gadgets being released and used last year. There have been several tough competitions going skin against skin with several gadget companies. Mostly MP3 players have been …read more…
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