Vote with your tweet
With Ireland in the midst of full scale campaigning for a General Election later this month, the power of social media is really coming to the fore…
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Why Are Tweetdeck Trying To Re-Invent Twitter?
Tweetdeck is a great service that I use on a daily basis. It’s so good that I have to ration myself sometimes during the day as it can be very distracting but it’s a great way of keeping up to date with multiple accounts and tracking search terms for clients and your own business. I’ve [...]
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How One Tweet Can Damage Your Brand Within 30 Minutes – #guardianexclusive
Two worlds that I am obsessed with collided today when football and social media created a huge amount of buzz for a short period of time on Twitter. It all started around 4.30 when their sports Editor send out the following Tweet which in a couple of minutes spread all over the web and whipped [...]
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Can Twitter triple their ad revenue in 2011?
Impressive figures for Twitter as a recent study shows that their ad revenue could more than triple in 2011 compared to last year. They have been investing more time and money in their ad solution, so could the site be about to reach its true revenue potential?
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Research Shows 0.33% Of People Click On Retweet Links
One of the most powerful features on Twitter is the Retweet but how many people are clicking on the links within the Tweets and are people actually engaged with the content or just passing on links for the sake of it. I wanted to analyze some of the data that I had available to me to look at some of the click through rates on Twitter…
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Tweeting up a storm
Last week Liverpool fc player Ryan Babel got into all sorts of bother for an inappropriate tweet. He wasn’t too happy about a penalty given against Liverpool for Manchester United in their FA Cup tie and sent a tweet which pictured the referee in a Manchester United jersey and he wrote “And they call him one of the best referees? That’s a joke”
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What Exactly Is Twitter?
It’s a funny enough question to be asking seeing as Twitter has been around well over 4 years now but I was prompted to write this post after this article where twitter’s own CEO admitted recently that he had to do some work figuring out what Twitter was and how it would be defined. He [...]
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Twitter At New Year – Amazing Video Visualiztion
When we were all bust ringing in the New Year the boffins at Twitter were busy making a pretty cool data visualization of all our tweets from all over the world. It’s amazing to watch all the different parts of the world light up as they ring in the new year with a tweet to all their followers…
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CitiBank On Twitter, Banks And Social Media – An Awkward Fit?
If there is one sector that has been slow to embrace social media it has to be the banking sector and probably with good reason as they hold a lot of very private data. I spotted this article today though (via @laurenceveale) saying that one of the world’s biggest banks Citibank have just launched a [...]
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Hugely Innovative KLM Social Media Camaign – Video
Airlines have been embracing social media in recent times and as a business that carries millions of passengers it’s important for them to engage with their customers at all sorts of levels. This campaign by KLM is a brilliant example of how social media can be used to surprise and reward loyal passengers…
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Twitter’s improved offering for businesses
With a revamped site for businesses, Twitter have shown that they are more willing than ever to work with corporate accounts. This is good news all round for Twitter, businesses and consumers as it shows that Twitter can offer a satisfactory experience for all.
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2010 In Review According To Google And Twitter
You can tell it’s the end of the year because all the “best of” and predictions are starting to pop up around the web. The big boys are out early with theirs this year as Twitter and Google aim to steal the limelight with a couple of impressive releases. The interesting thing here is that [...]
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