More Dismay for Twitter Trending Topics
More Dismay for Twitter...
Has Twitter trending topics gotten too spammy? It’s a question we’ve needed to address since the moment Twitter introduced trending topics, which were once relegated to Twitter’s search page and now display on all public Twitter pages. But a recent incident with...
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Twitter Trademarks Tweets and Gets Tough With App Developers
Twitter Trademarks Twee...
Until today many were largely unaware that Twitter had trademarked the term “tweet.” In a TechCrunch article, an email thread between a Twitter API staff member and a developer revealed this small detail, along with Twitter’s feelings on the application’s...
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3 Reasons Trending Topics are Useless, and How Twitter Can Stop Spam
3 Reasons Trending Topi...
This post was written by Matthew Kraft (@MKraft), who spends entirely too much time online. One of these days that will pay off, as will all those years he spent reading obscure literature in grad school. Last week I was researching Swine Flu/H1N1 for a client, using Twitter. The...
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Will the iPhone 3G S Inspire Twitter on the Video Front?
Will the iPhone 3G S In...
With all the Apple announcements this week coming from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, there are bound to be a lot of expectations swirling around the new iPhone 3G S. The most anticipated feature of the new generation of the iPhone is the support of video sending options...
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Twitter vs. Facebook, a Comparitive Real-Life Test
Twitter vs. Facebook, a...
This post was written by a guest author, Nick Schmidt, a swimmer at Eastern Illinois University where he earned an accounting & MBA degree. After graduation in 2005, Schmidt “did the normal thing and moved into an accounting job. “I am an accountant by day and a video...
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Twitter Sign In Upping Facebook’s Own Platform?
Twitter Sign In Upping ...
The battle between Facebook and Twitter lives on. Twitter has released a new Sign In feature that looks a lot like the Facebook Connect offering, enabling users of a third party site to sign in using their Twitter credentials. It’s not too big of a jump for Twitter, considering...
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When Twitter Gets You Fired
When Twitter Gets You F...
If there are some of you out there that haven’t learned your lesson yet, please take heed. Posting bad things about your employer on the web is not the brightest idea. And after nearly a decade of mainstream social networking taking place online, it’s high time you all...
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Twitter Still the Poster Child of SXSW?
Twitter Still the Poste...
If it weren’t for the SXSW conference in 2007, Twitter may not be the household name it is today. But two years later, how did Twitter hold up to all the hype? Is Twitter still the reigning champion of SXSW or is there room for another conference poster child? I was at the...
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Twitter Porn Taking Over?
Twitter Porn Taking Ove...
When marketers found out the power of Twitter, it wasn’t too long before follows became self-serving and direct messages became spammy in nature. But after a rapid rise to the top in the past year or so, seeing marketing [enter industry name here] professionals all over Twitter...
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Interview with CouponTweet Founder Chris Hill
Interview with CouponTw...
The Twitter economy can be a many splendor thing, for developers, startups, Twitter itself, and users. A great deal of Twitter’s value has always lied in the third party applications, and CouponTweet is a great example of the way in which the Twitter platform can be put to...
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