Twitter has rolled out Twitter Lists for organizing the people you follow into manageable lists. Announced a few weeks ago and still in beta, the feature enables Tweeters to create both public and private lists of people they are following.
Twitter Lists: A Welcome New Feature
As we wrote a while back, as you follow more and [...]
In a 2005 MIT study, “Zero as a Special Price: The True Value of Free Products,” the power of free was demonstrated by offering Lindt® Truffles & Hershey’s Kisses® , first at 15 cents for the Truffle & 1 cent for the Kiss, then at 14 cents for the Truffle & the Kiss offered for free. The [...]
Under new FTC guidelines released this week, bloggers and other “word of mouth” marketers who make an endorsement must disclose if there are material connections with the seller of the product or service. A material connection can include payments or free products received by the endorsers.
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) press release (5 [...]
What is a Twestival?
A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales via Twitter, which brings people offline for a great cause. The first Twestival Global happened on 12 February 2009 with 202 cities around the world hosting events and rallying fundraising efforts around [...]
If you are on Twitter, as you follow more and more people, it can be difficult to keep up with your close friends. There is a really simple solution to keep an eye out for their latest tweets.
Using iGoogle and RSS Feeds to Track Tweets
iGoogle lets you create a personalized homepage that contains [...]
By now most everyone has heard that more than 60% of US
Twitter users fail to return the following month. But, how about the graying of Twitter?
Twitter Demographics
Citing comScoreMatrix, eMarketer recently published a Twitter Demographic breakdown that shows the largest percentage of tweeters are age 25 – 54.
So, 45-54 year olds are the most likely [...]
John Wright, a wonderfully talented artist with two beautiful blogs, John Wright Art and John Wright SketchBlog, hosts a contest each month giving away a painting and five runner-up prizes of signed limited edition prints.
In February, I was so fortunate to have won a signed print, Outside the Pavilion.
The print arrived a couple of weeks [...]
Apparently Twitter needed a Wingman to answer to the most common question of the Twitterverse, “How is Twitter going to make money?”
The Twitter Wingman
According to Wired’s Danny Dumas and Steven Leckart, Twitter is introducing the Wingman, a handheld, pager-like device for all things Twitter on the go. So Tweeps, give it a look and, of [...]
sezWho, who had aspired to be the universal profile service for social media sites, has called it quits. Following in the footsteps of other recent social media sites, such as Furl, sezWho sent eMails to users stating:
We wish all those at sezWho the best as they move on to other endeavors.
A new study shows that marketers are slowly making the transition to social media marketing with 63% stating they will increase their social media marketing spend in 2009.
clipped from www.emarketer.com
Let’s talk about budgets.
It took a while.
Even though tens of millions of users were flocking to social media sites every day, most marketers stayed away. They [...]
