We want to make a series of lists for every single county in Ireland by using crowd sourcing to harness the power of Twitter and create an incredible free resource for people to use. The idea is that people tweet the hashtag of their twitter county and we gather them up and organize the lists into relevant Irish counties. We have put a 48 hour time line on it so as we can crowd source the information as fast as possible and the lists will be going public on Thursday afternoon. It is an interesting experiment and will hopefully show the true power of the new Twitter lists…
Twitter traffic has been growing for a couple of years like crazy but October 2009 has seen it drop for the first time and it comes hot on the heels of further bad news with Stephen Fry claiming that he has quit the service. The traffic reports comes from a variey of online services including compete, Quantcast, Alexa and Hitwise who all measure traffic online and although this is only traffic that reaches the Twitter website directly and doesn’t include 3rd party apps such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic it does give a good overall indication of where things are headed.
Is this bad news for Twitter or is it simply a pause in growth before it starts another spurt? Have a look through the graphs after the jump and see what you think yourself…
Stephen Fry apparently quit Twitter tonight, citing unkindness and meanness for his reasons of departure. The outcome on one side shows support pouring in for Stephen Fry, asking him not to leave Twitter. Conversely, we are also seeing mob mentality, with abuse and slander being hurled at the tweeter @brumplum who is apparently the one responsible for the departure. The picture isn’t pretty and has shown a new side to Twitter.
We all know just how important it is for businesses to protect their identity online and one of the most effective ways of doing that is controlling what people find when they search for your company or even for you as a person. You may not always be able to control it 100% (as you can see from this search negative results will always appear in some format) but there are some good practices that you can put in place so as people get a good first impression when they search for you on Google. Here are our 5 tips for controlling your image online…
You wouldn’t let your shop or business premises get into a state like the picture above would you? You wouldn’t let the paint peel off the walls and not wash the floors or take out the rubbish for a couple of months. Appearance and perception is everything in the real world and it will affect how much you sell. People don’t like shabby shops with empty shelves. Guess what? The same principles apply online. Consumers and potential business partners form an opinion within a couple of seconds when checking you out online. Keep reading to find out some of the biggest mistakes I see businesses making online…
I was at a conference yesterday trying to explain to people why they should be spending their time online and one of the biggest factors that came across was the fear of the unknown about these fancy tools we all use online. I tried to explain that the tools we use very much mirror real [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the numbers game on Twitter – not least on this blog! Yesterday I asked the question on Twitter of what would happen if numbers weren’t public :
I received a few comments back and I think it’s an interesting issue that has led to us being obsessed with [...]
For too long now people have been obsessed with the numbers game on Twitter. How many people are following you? How many do you follow? Are you committing the ultimate sin of following more people than follow you? This is a game played mostly by people who don’t see that the real power is in [...]
As you will I am sure have noticed this weekend people all over the web have been tagging their tweets with #BeatCancer in order to break a social media world record and raise money for cancer. The idea is simple in that a donation of $0.01 will be made for every mention on Twitter, Facebook [...]
Sometime in the next day it looks like Twitter is about to go past the 5 Billion Tweet mark as calculated by the truly mesmerizing traffic tweet counter on the simple yet effective website Gigatweet. This is a truly staggering number that represents nearly 1 tweet for every single person on the planet and the [...]
