Tag Archives: Twitter

Google Finds Way To Get On SOPA Soap Box Without Going Dark

Instead of blacking out for the Jan. 18 SOPA protest, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) instead is using its power—and its most iconic communications tools—to make a difference without denying access to its services.

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News Corp./Time Warner’s Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300 million for a strategic stake in the micro-bloging company.

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The Merging of Twitter and Facebook

Twitter is becoming Facebook, and Facebook is becoming Twitter? Twitter just announced the launch of its newly redesigned interface, which makes the service a lot more similar to Facebook. Offering brand pages, Twitter account profiles resembling thos… Continue reading

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The Power of Twitter Followership

Not so surprisingly, when customers follow brands on Twitter, they are more likely to buy that brand as well as recommend it to others. A study by Constant Contact and market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey revealed at 60% of followers will recom… Continue reading

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from Mashable: The Current State of Twitter (Graphic)

About a month old, but still a terrific graphic.  Original post here.

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PC World: Top 10 Firefox Add-ons for business users

Firefox may be number 2 in share, but since I use it and know many people who do, I suspect it’s over-represented in the the community.  This article suggests 11 Firefox add-ons that will help make it even more useful. … Continue reading

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Social Media Workshop Series with Sree Sreenivasan

Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia J-school digital media professor and one of AdAge’s 25 people to follow on Twitter, is offering a series of social-media workshops in March and April. More on him at http://sree.net and you can see how he uses … Continue reading

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Analysis of Twitter data from Techcrunch: Mighty interesting…

This seems to be a decent analysis of Twitter activity, but you make the call.  One conclusion that seems foregone is that the vast majority of tweets and followers are from a very small number of accounts…. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twitter-data-analysis-an-investors-perspective/

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