Plurk & Twitter
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Twittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use TwitterTwittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use Twitter How do you really use Twitter ? Do you retweet a lot of other peoples' content, share a lot of links and respond to direct messages? A new service called Twittruth will tell you the cold, hard facts about your own use of Twitter. It ...
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Influential Marketing Blog: 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About TwitterMonday, July 06, 2009 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders. These are the percentage of Twitter accounts that have never posted a single tweet. They may either be registered simply to hold a username for later use, or be experimental accounts started up but never used. ...
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A Day in the Life of a Twintern | The Big Money0s, 1s, and $s: The business of digital tech. A Day in the Life of a Twintern Meet the recent college grad who tweets for Pizza Hut. By Caitlin McDevitt Posted Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 3:18pm Most people measure the workday in hours, but for a new crop of employees—interns in charge ...
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Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google ReaderBrizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader by MG Siegler on July 10, 2009 Twitter’s front-end look and feel on the web has been slowly improving over the past several months. But it’s still far from ideal, missing quite a few key elements that users turn to ...
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Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating ConfusionInflux of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion July 5th, 2009 | by Ben Parr Comments There seems to be a wave of suspensions going around Twitter today, and it’s turning quickly into an echo chamber of confusion and frustration. We’ve received several tips (the first one ...
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10 Ways to Find People on Twitter10 Ways to Find People on Twitter Twitter is all about facilitating conversations, but until you’re following some people, it’s just a blank page. Once you find people to follow and talk to, however, Twitter becomes exceptionally useful. You can share thoughts, ask questions, get updates ...
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6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations Ah, Twitter . It’s impossible to get away from it; it seems that everyone stopped whatever they were doing B.T. (before Twitter) and switched to doing cool stuff for and around the service, and this includes data visualizations. In the past, we’ve profiled ...
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIMEHow Twitter Will Change the Way We Live The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's ...
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Let's not get carried away about Twitter power's role in Iran's demonstrations. - By Jack Shafer - Slate MagazineDoubting Twitter Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations. By Jack Shafer Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 5:33 PM ET I demonstrate my personal enthusiasm for Twitter dozens of times a day by posting my own tweets, reading many of those posted by the 72 ...
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Top 5 Twitter Related Trends to WatchTop 5 Twitter Related Trends to Watch Twitter may be a toddler in terms of age, but when it comes to purpose the microblogging site has managed to become the most useful utility for keeping up with news and hot topics as they happen. Twitter is coming of age right before our eyes, and more ...
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