Peter Kafka, AllThingD: That means that users who aren’t following Virgin America on the service might still see an ad for the airline in their “timeline” — if Twitter thinks they have things in common with people who do follow Virgin. Outside of Promoted Tweets, this is a new era in how Twitter displays advertising. Until [...]
Twitter calls it a “better Twitter“. The Twitteratis call it #newtwitter. Whatever you want to call it, the redesign that was unveiled yesterday is a big departure from the simple stream we’ve been used to since the microblog’s inception. Now, I’ve always argued that adding features was not the prime concern when looking at a [...]
Finally, a capable Twitter search engine. Not only going back five days like the official one. Using Twitter for conference notes -call me nuts- I love the date-specific search (though a tad buggy).
After my talk at the more exclusive workshop, things took a different scale for the Internet & Mobile Marketing Summit 2010 on Thursday. It’s only my second time at this conference and I must say I was really impressed by how it improved in a year. I’ll do a summary in a next article when [...]
We may eventually develop a set of social rules and legal conventions that acknowledge that an angry tweet is less likely to be considered defamatory than a published article, but we are not there yet. I seriously doubt it. While the social norms will eventually adapt to open communication, libel will remain. We have to [...]
Flipboard will soon integrate the semantic data-analysis technology [...] in order to app better determine the relevance of the information and updates from your various social networking connections Robert was right. Revolutionary or not, this iPad application is mesmerizing. The addition of semantic data-analysis is what I’m looking mostly forward though. My6Sense, your turn to [...]
Gruber says that when he’s writing Daring Fireball, he’s picturing his ideal reader — a copy of himself — and conceptually writing just for him. With everything he writes, he’s writing to and for that one ideal reader, not trying to boost his SEO for target phrases or appeal to an ever broadening demographic. ➡ [...]
CNN: une journaliste spécialiste du Moyen-Orient licenciée à cause de Twitter CNN: a journalist specialized on the Middle-Est fired because of Twitter Because of Twitter?! I repeat. Because of Twitter. Seriously, people, because of Twitter?! Yes, I got the news in French -flame me for having that one as a mother tongue- and I’ll admit [...]
Japan is increasing Twitter addicts everyday. This story of a Twitter-addict not writing for a day creating a panic for her followers is indeed kinda scary. ➡ A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically
we are calling the end of Japan’s 3-1 victory over Denmark a record that bests the end of the Los Angeles Laker victory over the Boston Celtics [...] When the referee blew the final whistle, we saw 3,283 [Tweets-per-second] ➡ Another Big Record: Part Deux
The US soft drinks company is only the second brand to sponsor a “trending topic”, using Twitter’s “promoted tweets” to tap into online discussion about the World Cup this week. It saw 86m “impressions” or views of the ads in 24 hours It’s Coke, an established brand. It’s the World Cup time. But 86m impressions in [...]
the fact is that in many cases, particularly during a sporting event like the World Cup, Twitter is like a bar [...] It’s called social media because it’s social ➡ Esquire Misses the Point on Twitter and the World Cup
Japan scores against Cameroon on June 14 in their 1-0 victory 2,940 Tweets per second in the half minute after the goal. Top most tweeted goal of the World Cup so far. ➡ Big Goals, Big Game, Big Records
Twitter is like haiku. It is so Japanese. Japan: 16.3% of internet users tweet. #1 Mixi is surpassed. 8m tweets a day, 12 percent of the global tally. Loic recently said that more than 20% of Seesmic tweets are in Japanese. Ryan has more than 30% on HootSuite. Twitter is truly dislocating that SNS galapagos. [...]
My keynote at the Philippines Social Networking Conference 2010 focused on some future social technologies trends and their implication on human interaction.
