Posts tagged with 'twitter'
Nothing really needs to be said about Twitter's popularity. It's arguably the hottest thing on the net right now as far as the media and armchair observers are concerned.
Now Twitter is set to 'take advantage' of that popularity in a new way.
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by Patricio Robles
26 May 2009 09:05am
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Egotistic oversharing wasn't always top on the list of corporate job applicant criteria, but increasingly, online brand management is becoming a social endeavor. And emloyees that eat, sleep, and breathe the brand are becoming the indispensable moutpieces of big and small companies alike.
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by Meghan Keane
21 May 2009 16:59pm
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Andy Redfern is the co-founder and CEO of online retailer EthicalSuperstore.com, which is based in the North East, and sells a large range of successful fair trade and environmentally friendly products.
Andy was speaking last week at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle, you can see his presentations here, and I caught up with him to ask him about the challenges of building the business from scratch, and his advice for other e-commerce startups...
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by Graham Charlton
21 May 2009 14:13pm
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Using a few Google Analytics advance filters, it’s very easy to create a handy Twitter-specific profile which groups together twitter sources such as web clients and short URL services.
If you've read my earlier post 2 easy ways to track social networks in Google Analytics, you should be quite familiar with using advance filters in Google Analytics. A large percentage of Twitter's traffic is coming from phone or desktop based clients, in which case they'll appear as direct traffic so be sure to place extra attention to filter three.
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by Ran Nir
21 May 2009 11:56am
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Starbucks is looking to Twitter to combat falling sales in its massive network of stores. The coffee giant is launching a new ad campaign that hopes to leverage its massive numbers of followers and fans online to get to their friends and acquaintances.
According to The New York Times:
"The coffeehouse chain is putting up new advertising posters in six major cities. To further spread its message, it is trying to harness the power of online social networking sites by challenging people to hunt for the posters on Tuesday and be the first to post a photo of one using Twitter."
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by Meghan Keane
20 May 2009 22:37pm
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Twitter's popularity is sparking all kinds of rumors about the company's future, and Google higher ups added fuel to the fire this week by implying that their company plans to partner with the micro-blogging service.
At the search giant's annual annual Google Zeitgeist conference
Tuesday, Google cofounder Larry Page made it clear that they are covetous of
Twitter's real time offerings. Page said that
their company has so far “done a relatively poor job of creating things
that work on a per second basis...People really want to do stuff in
real-time and they [Twitter] have done a great job about it... We will
do a good job of things now we have these examples.”
CEO Eric Schmidt tampered down rumors that Google is looking to buy Twitter though, saying “We do not have to buy everyone to work
with them." And that's a good thing for Twitter.
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by Meghan Keane
20 May 2009 18:28pm
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If you're a twitter user, you'll have noticed more and more brands jumping on to the band wagon lately, to varying degrees of success. To spare a few blushes, I've put together a few tips (twips?) to help out any brands who are joining twitter but aren't quite sure how to interact.
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by Henry Elliss
20 May 2009 12:48pm
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Speaking at a conference today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told the audience not to expect to see ads anytime soon on the popular microblogging platform.
"There are a few reasons why we're not pursuing advertising--one is,
it's just not quite as interesting to us." Stone said.
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by Rebecca Lieb
19 May 2009 19:06pm
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As the buzz around social media gets even noisier, it has been fascinating to watch search agencies stake a claim to this territory and reposition themselves accordingly. But how closely do SEO and social media really fit together? We spoke to several leading search agency figures to get their perspective.
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by Linus Gregoriadis
18 May 2009 15:30pm
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Now, I adore pigs, saw "Babe" 11 times, don’t eat ‘em, and pet them at the kiddie zoos. Yet I would never encourage lipstick for an oinker. So why do developers of digital products that won’t sell, chirp: “Let’s spin the click potential, sell advertising on it, and give it away?”
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by Tina Whitfield
13 May 2009 19:27pm
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