Anti-Depression Non-Profit Wins USA Today’s Twitter Charity Contest
Last week, U.S. news organization USA Today launched a four-day Twitter hashtag campaign for charity. The grand prize? A full-page, full-color ad in USA Today, valued at $189,400. The charity that had the most retweets of the message “#AmericanWants [charity name] to get a full-page ad in USA TODAY” with its name in the tweet […]
Google Places: Google’s Local Business Center Gets an Upgrade
Google’s Local Business Center has been renamed “Google Places.” The re-branding effort is accompanied by a handful of new features designed to help local business owners gain an edge in search engine marketing. The name change was made to better tie the business owner dashboard with Place Pages, the Yelp-like local business landing pages that […]
Twitter to Developers: Attach Any Data You Want to Tweets
Metadata has long been part of Twitter applications. Viewing conversation threads or learning about a user’s location has changed how users interact with content and have provided third party app developers with great opportunities to innovate on Twitter’s platform. Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s director of platform, announced today at Chirp, the Twitter developer conference, that annotations […]
Google Company Files Patent on Promotional Tweets & Facebook Messages
Aardvark, the Q&A service that was recently acquired by Google, has filed a patent for “promotional status messages”. You know when you sign up for a service and it lets you post a message to your friends on Twitter or Facebook inviting them to join? Yup, Aardark is somehow claiming that this was the company’s […]
3 Ways Live Events Improve Online Communities
Katie Morse is a Community Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Candid Katie and is @misskatiemo on Twitter. In my role as a Community Manager, I talk to a lot of people online as I work through my day. Whether it’s responding to a tweet, commenting on a […]
iPad Accessories: A Quick Guide to Apple’s Official Add-Ons
The minimum you’ve forked out (or are planning to fork out) for the Apple iPad is $499, so paying out for accessories on top of that might sting a little. To try and help you decide what’s actually worth spending extra money on, we’ve taken a look at the official accessories available from Apple. It’s […]
Twitter Unveils New Homepage [PIC]
Twitter has just rolled out a new homepage that non-logged in users see when they visit Twitter.com. It features scrolling trending topics, “top tweets” (a tweet from Justin Bieber was the first one I saw… go figure), and a “who’s here” with avatars of well-known users and brands that are on the microblogging service. It’s […]
Foursquare’s Growth Not Slowing Down: 725,000 Users, 22 Million Checkins
Mobile social network Foursquare keeps on releasing new stats on its growth, and why shouldn’t it? The numbers are nothing short of impressive. Just 12 days ago, Foursquare grew by nearly 100,000 users in 10 days, taking its total number of users to somewhere north of 600,000. Now a new update from the company reveals […]
FRIDAY POLL: How Did You Celebrate Twestival?
Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Weekly Poll! Yesterday, thousands of people in more than 175 cities got together to celebrate the second annual Twestival, an event that has (at the time of this posting) raised $311,696 for Concern Worldwide, an organization that works to provide an education to millions […]
Tweets Calling for Obama’s Assassination Prompt Secret Service Investigation
Two Twitter users are learning the hard way that threats against the President of the United States are taken very seriously, even when they’re just a tweet. Following last night’s passage of the healthcare reform bill, @THHEE_JAY and @Solly_Forrel expressed their frustration with the President by publishing tweets reading “ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations […]
Happy Birthday Twitter!
Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon. Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and last summer it was announced […]
How To Twitter Your Newsletter
http://www.johnchow.com How to use Twitter to tweet your follower to let them know you published a new newsletter. Duration : 0:2:10