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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WeFollow is a new user powered Twitter directory by Digg’s Kevin Rose.  With a sleek interface and #hashtag directory, it is catching on fast. Add Yourself to the We Follow Twitter directory We Follow lists the most popular Twitterers by categories created with #hashtags.   Adding yourself is simple:  Sign in to your Twitter account, [...]

Micro-blogging platform Plurk is a social journal that puts “your life, on the line.” A timeline that is. Plurkers add plurks (up to 140 character updates) to their Plurk timeline via text, instant messaging or the web. So, about now you have to be thinking – “Oh, it’s Twitter with a timeline.”

Social media site, Pownce, announced today that it will be closing the site down in two weeks.
According to the Pownce blog, they will “be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th.”