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ReTweet Button Growth Disproportionate To Usage

24/08/09

TweetMeme, a service that monitors the popularity

of tweets and links being sent out on Twitter, has

itself grown rapidly in the past few months, due to

the extremely popular retweet buttons. Usage of

the service, though, has not quite kept up with this

growth.

Retweet button growth



40 Percent Of Twitter Just Pointless Babble

17/08/09

Marketing analytics company, Pear Analytics,

recently conducted a study about the type of

Tweets being sent out on Twitter. They found that

over 40% of tweets were just “pointless babble”

40% of twitter pointless babble



Twitter To The Defense Of NHS

14/08/09

Whatever the Americans (Republicans in particular)

may think of the UK’s National Health Service, the

Brits obviously love it - so much that when

someone criticised it, they tweeted enough in

defense of the NHS to bring Twitter down.

NHS defended on Twitter



More Twitter Links Than Facebook In Email

05/08/09

Links to Facebook and Twitter in email marketing

campaigns have increased drastically over the last

couple of years. In the same time period, the ratio

of number of emails linking to Facebook and to

Twitter has reversed.

More people link to Twitter in their emails



Twitter’s New Homepage

31/07/09

Twitter has been trying to expand their user base,

and as a positive step in that direction, they have

changed their homepage.

Twitter’s new homepage



Traditional Media Delivers News Faster Than Social Media

20/07/09

A number of recent major news events and

breaking news stories were reported first on blogs

and microblogging sites like Twitter. However a

study conducted at Cornell University finds that

traditional media still remains vital in delivering the

news first.

Social media delivers news slower



Did Twitter Really Destroy Bruno?

16/07/09

The success or failure of a movie is traditionally

judged by its box office collections over the very

first weekend of its release. However in the case of

the movie Bruno, some believe its success is

determined by the nature of tweets about the

movie.

Did Twitter really destroy Bruno?



Microsoft Trumps Google Again With BingTweets

15/07/09

Microsoft is really sticking to the promise they

made of providing further innovations to their new

decision engine, Bing. Following closely on the

heels of the integration of Bing into Hotmail, they

have now presented another novel service called

BingTweets.

Microsoft real-time search via BingTweets



Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter

14/05/09

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted

by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass partners

revealed some very interesting habits of women as

far as the use of blogs and other forms of social

media are concerned.

Women favor blogs over Twitter



Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content

12/05/09

Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at

Twitter recently said that they will soon start

crawling and indexing links that are posted on

Twitter. This means that Twitter search results

could include several web pages that are crawled

from links within tweets.

Twitter search to index Web content



How Loyal Are Twitter Users?

06/05/09

It is a well known fact that Twitter has grown at an

explosive rate lately - their unique audience was up

100% in March - however, the site does not seem

to be very addictive to its new users.

60% new Twitter users desert site in 1 month



The Terminator On Twitter

24/04/09

Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation,

has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept

for self promotion.

The Terminator on Twitter



The Race For One Million Twitter Followers

17/04/09

Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds. Its

following grew by an unbelievable 75% from

February to March this year, with site visits

doubling. The site has its celebrity users to thank

for this sudden growth spurt.

@AplusK 1st with 1,000,000 Twitter followers



Popular Brands Succumb To Sneaky Twitter Advertising

14/04/09

A number of popular brands have been recently

caught paying for undercover publicity on Twitter.

These brands are paying Twitter users, via the

Magpie ad network, to tweet about their products.

Popular brands use sneaky Twitter advertising



Twitter To The Rescue Of Small Businesses

27/03/09

In these days of recession, all possible money

saving measures are helpful. As the saying goes, ‘A

penny saved is a penny earned’. It has been found

that the popular micro-blogging site Twitter is

helping small businesses to do just that.

Twitter great for small business marketing



Where Do People Go From Twitter?

18/03/09

It has long been felt that people go downstream to

Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook.

However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise,

shows that the reverse is also true.

Where do people go from Twitter?



Why Facebook Failed To Takeover Twitter

03/03/09

During a recent interview with Business Week,

Facebook’s Director and one of its largest

investors, Peter Thiel, publicly confirmed for the

first time that Facebook and Twitter had been in

serious talks with each other but the deal failed

over disagreements regarding price and structure.

Facebook fails to takeover Twitter



Integrating Search Into Twitter

26/02/09

Twitter is testing an integrated search feature on

their main site. The test is currently available in

beta to a handful of signed in users.

Integrating search into Twitter



Did You Know That StumbleUpon Is Bigger Than Twitter?

09/02/09

Social discovery site, StumbleUpon is not the most

hyped or talked-about site in the social medium.

Yet, it has reportedly accumulated over 7 million

users, making it almost 50% larger than the much-

hyped Twitter.

StumbleUpon was once bigger than Twitter



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