Your Twitter Weekend Homework: Monitor Your Keywords
Last week's homework was to create a list of keywords to monitor on Twitter (don't worry, you can catch up if you didn't finish it last week). This week, your Twitter homework is to get down to monitoring those keywords so you can keep up with what's going on in your niche. read more>>
With Their New 'People' Tab, Is Twitter About To Start Categorizing Users?
Twitter has made some cosmetic alterations to the profile pages of users, adding new buttons and making some adjustments to copy. They've also tweaked the pages that show the people we're following. Which has made me wonder: is Twitter about to change the way users are managed on the network? read more>>
McDonald's Wants To Give You $10,000 If You're Part Of "The Perfect Pair" On Twitter
Do you have a Twitter doppelganger? Someone you have delicious back-and-forths with? McDonald's wants to know, and they're willing to give you $10,000 if you prove you and your "other" are the best. The fast food company is unveiling a new Frozen Strawberry Lemonade drink, and they want to find the best two-person combination on [...] read more>>
Twitter: 900,000 Apps, 600,000 Developers And 13 Billion API Requests Per Day [STATS]
Twitter's #devnest conference began in San Francisco yesterday, and the company has shared some pretty amazing stats that reveal just how large the Twitter ecosystem has become, how rapidly the platform continues to expand and the vast impact being made by independent developers around the world. read more>>
Now On Twitter: The Taliban
The Taliban are notorious for their shunning of most modern, non-military technologies, including satellite dishes, televisions and computers, and even anything that simply produces the joy of music. Now, in what is perhaps one of the biggest examples yet of Twitter's mounting global importance, the Taliban have taken to the micro-blogging platform to continue their [...] read more>>
Will We See Twitter-Only Reporters Soon?
"I think each sports desk could have someone solely concentrating on Twitter." Spoken by a prominent UK sports journalist, this phrase really made me think: what if we did have Twitter-specific roles for traditional reporters? People whose sole task it would be to monitor Twitter for breaking soccer-related news, interact with soccer fans, and write [...] read more>>
Twitter Bots Aren't Just for Spammers Anymore
The @TwitterSuggests account has been around for a few months, tweeting nearly 200k recommendations of "interesting" users to follow so far. And yes, it has received some press from famous misfires recommending everything from dormant accounts to some very NSFW accounts. A quick sampling of today's timeline from @TwitterSuggests still shows accounts without a tweet [...] read more>>
UFC To Pay Its Fighters $240,000 To Tweet
While the NBA and the Football Association are fining their professionals for unprofessional tweets, the Ultimate Fighting Championship will be paying its fighters to tweet – $240,000 over the next year, to be exact. read more>>
42 Facts About Twitter [Infographic]
If you want to know anything and everything about Twitter and its users, you've come to the right place. We've got an infographic that covers 42 facts about Twitter, from how it compares to Facebook to how many Twitter users are women to how many followers the average Twitter user has. read more>>
Mobile Twitter Has Been Updated, And Now It Looks Like An App (And Works Like One Too)
If you're used to a bit of a plain-Jane Twitter experience when you access Twitter.com on your mobile device, you're in for a treat: the company has just announced a newer, slicker, more app-like mobile experience for everyone with a smartphone. But if your phone is still displaying the old Twitter.com, don't bring it in [...] read more>>
On Twitter, Never Fear Being Vulgar - Just Boring, Middle Class Or Dull
Twitter's learning curve can be pretty steep. When you first join the network it pays to quickly educate yourself on the platform's norms and expectations, read as much as you can about all things Twitter, and to figure out what's what. Fast. Sure, go ahead and find somebody to mentor you. That's actually a very [...] read more>>
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