Posts tagged with 'twitter'
In 1995, Craig Newmark started an email distribution list for events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It moved to the web in 1996. Today, the non-profit company's classifieds community - craigslist, in case you hadn't guessed - is available in over 500 cities around the world.
We briefly caught up with Craig in advance of his appearance at next month's Traveling Geeks roundtables hosted by Econsultancy in London (other participants include Robert Scoble, Howard Rheingold and Susan Bratton). Here he answers a few questions on craigslist's history, Web 2.0 and dealing with customers.
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by Patricio Robles
23 June 2009 17:47pm
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It seems fair to say that Twitter has truly hit the mainstream in recent months, as well as the mainstream media, especially now that it is being used as a communication and broadcasting tool by our revolutionary-minded Persian friends.
The range of Twitter uses are as broad as they are deep, despite initial concerns about the 140-character framework and those lame 'feeding the cat' or 'going to the shop' tweets. As such I thought it would be a good idea to collate a bunch of recent Slideshare presentations that explore how Twitter can be used, catering for all levels of adoption.
Hopefully these slides will prove useful if you're just starting out (see my tips for beginner's post if you are), and also if you're a more advanced Twitter user (you can skip through the basics for the meatier stuff).
Enjoy...
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by Chris Lake
22 June 2009 13:05pm
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Loren Feldman has a reputation for being Web 2.0's bad boy. He's been highly critical of many of the startups and figures within the Web 2.0 community and doesn't mince words. Yet his popularity proves one thing: quite often, whether we'd admit to it publicly or not, he has a point.
Through Twitter (somewhat ironically), I was led to a video he posted with his comments on the 140 Characters conference, which, as you might guess, was focused on Twitter. Feldman's video is very NSFW but mentioned that the operator of the conference was doing something quite questionable: promoting that he'd take partial payment for the conference fee in equity.
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by Patricio Robles
18 June 2009 13:19pm
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All too eager to get cut and paste and a few other new features on my iPhone, I downloaded the latest 3.0 upgrade from iTunes not long after it was released.
However, after something like an hour of waiting, and just as the download was about to be completed, I get an error message on iTunes, and my iPhone screen looked like this:
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by Graham Charlton
18 June 2009 10:26am
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Individuals and brands are flocking to Twitter, but all the employees figuring out how to share their company's message on the new medium might be surprised to learn that often the best thing to do on the service is stay silent.
At the 140 Character Conference in New York on Wednesday, that was the most ardent advice for brands using Twitter. According to Peter Fasano, Principal at Mass+Logic: "The most important thing on Twitter, is knowing when not to Tweet."
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by Meghan Keane
17 June 2009 15:58pm
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I've just downloaded the newly released Tweetdeck for iPhone, which contains all the features of the desktop version, currently the best way to organise your Twitter activity.
Having used Twitterific for mobile tweeting before, I have been using Tweetie lately, but will Tweetdeck for iPhone convince me to abandon it?
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by Graham Charlton
17 June 2009 10:52am
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Everyone on Twitter has noticed that a key mention or link by an influential Twitter user can lead to a windfall of followers. But only a few users are lucky enough to get on Twitter's own Suggested Users list.
Making it to that coveted list can do wonders for a person's brand. According to Ben Lorica at O'Reilly Rader, a listing on the list grows a person's followers by an average of 53,000 followers a week after appearing.
And as The New York Times said this weekend: "In separating the wheat from the chaff, Twitter has become a kingmaker
of sorts, conferring online stardom to a mix of writers, gadget geeks,
political commentators and entrepreneurs."
The few who make it to the list are given many new followers and a sort of expert status. And while most individuals and companies using Twitter will not be so lucky, everyone on Twitter is working to achieve some piece of what the list manages to gift to the lucky few on it.
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by Meghan Keane
16 June 2009 00:00am
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I've just been working my way through a few Twitter emails from over the weekend, and deciding whether to follow people back or not.
Having initially followed the advice of Guy Kawasaki and automatically followed everyone who followed me, I have become more circumspect lately, to keep the content more relevant.
I also tend to make snap decisions, based on the bio, and the last few posts. Here are ten reasons not to follow people back...
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by Graham Charlton
15 June 2009 15:36pm
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So, you've decided to 'get social' with customers on the web, but how can
you build strong reasoning to support the decision? How can you get the
boss on your team and actively investing in social media at your side?
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by Jeff Molander
15 June 2009 14:21pm
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I love Twitter; I love the way it allows news, opinions and political unrest to zip around the world in a matter of minutes.
When that aeroplane successfully landed in the Hudson, the very first mention of it online came not through a major news provider but through Janis Krums twittering. He said: "There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy."
Crazy indeed. However, whatever Twitter's potential for spreading news and views fast, it is undeniably equally good at spreading bitching, scandal and rumour.
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by Kevin Gibbons
15 June 2009 11:10am
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