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News – Hello, Haiti

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:52 +0000

If you have been following the events in Haiti since the devastating quake last month, then you know of the initial bursts of compassion. International dialogue now shifts from lifesaving relief to long term restoration. Officials are saying this may take ten years at a cost of billions.

Post-disaster needs assessment is underway and there will be an international donor conference late next month in New York City. In the meantime, there are ways to stay involved in sustained efforts such as the WFPs monthly donation program.

Kevin Thau and our mobile team have recently arranged free SMS tweets for Digicel Haiti customers. To activate the service, mobile phone users in Haiti can text follow @oxfam to 40404. Accounts are created on the fly and any account can be followed this way.

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News – Measuring Tweets

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:08:36 +0000

As a member of the Twitter analytics team, part of my job is to measure and understand growth. The graph above tells a story of how weve grown over the past three years in terms of number of tweets created per day. Please note that tweets from accounts identified as spam have been removed so the counts in this chart do not include spam.

Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per daythats an average of 600 tweets per second. (Yes, we have TPS reports.)

Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then theres search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network. Tweets per day is just one number to think about. Well make time to share more information so please stay tuned.

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The Turbo Cash Generator

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:15:27 +0000

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Turns out certainly not everybody’s a Tweeter.

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:20:58 +0000

Merely Eight % of web based young adults utilize Twitter, in accordance with the Pew report published this week.

Analysts have discovered that Twitter’s condensed transmission of 140 character types is likely to irritate young adults, who seem to commonly opt for the extended room on Fb.

The report says that social networking has increased to it’s strongest degree of acceptance amongst young adults, and also elder teenagers tend to be more prone to utilize Twitter compared to the younger ones. In relation to 73 % of youngsters age range 12-17 utilize a number of web based social networking service.

Senior high school girls tend to be essentially the most focused on Twitter, along with 13 % utilizing it.

Exactly where do you fall within the Twitter compared to. Facebook issue?

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News – Offical Twitter Developer Conference, Chirp!

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:22:05 +0000

There are more than fifty thousand registered applications on the Twitter platform. These applications represent the creativity, ingenuity, and talent of a growing number of developers and companies building innovative new ways to interact with the Twitter information network. There are thousands of individuals who work on Twitterover one hundred of these individuals actually work at 795 Folsom Street in San Francisco but many platform developers work in offices, coffee shops, apartments, and even friend’s couches around the world.

We want to get together with some of you and celebrate the chutzpah that goes into so many of the apps built on the Twitter platform with our first ever official Twitter conference especially for developers called Chirp. The word Tweet is a noun defined as the chirp of a small or young bird. The Twitter ecosystem is still very young so naming this conference Chirp felt right. For all the details and information about the event please visit Chirp, The Official Twitter Developer Conference web site. Carsonified are helping us so it’s going to be awesome. See you there!

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News – Room to Read in India

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:05:14 +0000

When Twitter announced The Fledgling Initiative in Octobermaking and selling wine to benefit an organization called Room to Read, I was thrilled. This past month, my enthusiasm and commitment increased dramatically when I had the chance to visit some of the sites where Room to Read works in India.

Teachers and students in Hardiwar gave me the warmest of welcomes. I was given the opportunity to help children read books in English and one group of students even inited me to sing a song for them. My performance of Itsy Bitsy Spider (see abovepit stains included), sent the kids into fits of laughter.

The schools in these areas face incredible obstacles but the community approaches problems with passion and vigor. One school was having trouble with a dangerous elephant so parents volunteered to take turns walking the kids to school and would even sleep there for a night or two. When I was little there were snow days but nothing like this.

Seeing kids get excited about learning to read made my heart skip a few beats, and made me feel proud to work at a company that chooses to partner with world-changing organizations like Room to Read. Here are some of the photos from my trip and you can learn more about Room to Read at their web site.

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News – The Power of Suggestions

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:06:23 +0000

Hi, I’m Josh and I work in the product team at Twitter. One of the areas I’m working on is helping new users get started so they know how to find and discover what interests them. Today we’re making the first of many changes here to help people ease into the twitterverse by finding and following accounts that interest them.

Two of the biggest challenges for new users have been finding accounts to follow that appeal to their interests, and finding their friends and colleagues who tweet. Over time, we’ve learned that by making suggestions of who to follow, we can help users get going more easily on Twitter. In our new design, we’re taking some steps to continue to improve this process. Once a user signs up and selects what they’re interested in, we show them some accounts that relate to that interest. Next, we help them find their friends and colleagues by checking their address books, and third we give them a chance to search for anyone we or they missed in this process.

We’ve found that the power of suggestion can be a great thing to help people get started, but it’s important that we suggest things relevant to them. We’ve created a number of algorithms to identify users across a variety of clusters who tweet actively and are engaged with their audiences. These new algorithms help us group these active users into lists of users by interests. Rather than suggesting a random set of 20 users for a new user to follow, now we let users browse into the areas they are interested in and choose who they want to follow from these lists. These lis
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ts will be refreshed frequently as the algorithms identify new users who should be suggested in these lists and some that are not as engaging to new users will be removed. We also have a set of “Staff Picks” that are manually selected by Twitter employees as some of our favorites. Given the recent tragedy in Haiti, we’ve also created a special “Staff Picks for Haiti” to get updated news and content on what’s happening there.

We’re really excited about this change, and look forward to continually improving the experience for all users to discover the best content and get the most out of Twitter.

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Using Twitter for Product and Service Marketing

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:06:25 +0000

Twitter is a comparatively new web 2.0 web site that’s beginning to achieve a ton of popularity – which means that an innumerable of individuals have learned of it however it’s also rather as frequent to come across individuals who have not learned of it yet. Twitter.com is a social website that encourages users to post or “tweet” about anything concerning what they’re currently doing.

A heap of individuals are using it to enhance their selling reach, by being a lively twitterer they gain followers who are curious about what they got going on. This implies folks being exposed to their updates on an everyday basis. For instance, if you have got tons of followers in Twitter and you opt to post an affiliate link, meaning that lots of people have instantly been exposed to your offer. In this article I will discuss ways to maximize Twitter for your promoting, and conjointly a big mistake to bear in mind of.

In order to own a disciple base per say of followers in Twitter you need to be in a position to stay their interest in you and what you are doing now. “What are you doing?” is the whole foundation of what Twitter is concerning in the first place. Make positive to post daily if not several times throughout the day updates about what you’re doing. The magical issue behind this is often that many of your contacts will be in a position to feel like they apprehend you so abundant better, will trust you additional, and feel much additional snug regarding operating with you. On the opposite hand, once you follow others you’ll be able to learn about them and their doable needs.

The large mistake to be careful for is only posting affiliate links or offers on your Twitter page. This appearance like Spam and several people can see you as just abusing Twitter for your own personal gain. Think of it this approach, if you’d not want to ask your friends or family to stay up with you via Twitter then you are going about it all wrong. As with something you send out or give, ninety % ought to be content and ten percent (at most) advertising. Thus this concept is sort of simple… constantly post throughout the day what you’re doing.. it is sometimes very easy and only takes some seconds to post! Secondly, if you write articles or provide content on-line, provide a link for those in your Twitter posts. You will post several things among sooner or later, however the last issue you post for the day is sometimes the most vital as a result of it will be there the longest. This implies that your last post for the day ought to terribly well contain a link that you wish your followers to work out before your begin Twittering again the next day!

Another part of Twitter is contributing. Like any social web site it ought to be a offer and take relationship. Notice that give comes first… the additional you offer the additional folks will wish to work with you and therefore the a lot of attention you’ll receive. Make sure to browse and follow different users in Twitter. If you browse something attention-grabbing or useful then make sure to reply and say so, or maybe place a link for it on your Twitter therefore that you’re directing others to additional quality content. This will additionally be as straightforward as connecting with other users, if they apprehend you’re reading their Twitter page they will be a lot of more possible to check out what you’ve got going on too.

To urge started in Twitter you should first invite contacts who aren’t using Twitter and also realize contacts who are already using Twitter so that you’ll begin following them and additionally begin getting folks to follow you. Twitter has a nice invite and find feature that makes this incredibly easy. To grow your reach even more you’ll start following people who follow or are followed by the individuals who follow you.. or that you just follow. You may would like to browse that sentence again.. but primarily you’ll be able to find different users to attach with that are already connected to alternative users.

Currently for a big tip. If you actually need to maximize the potential with Twitter, you must build sure to take advantage of any plug-ins or sites that support Twitter. Here are 3, but I’m sure there will be many more in the future if not already. Squidoo permits you to input your Twitter account information into your Squidoo account and then it can automatically post updates to your Twitter account after you create or update Squidoo lenses. Facebook has an application referred to as Twitter, it automatically updates your Facebook standing when you create a Twitter post. The other tool may be a free WordPress plug-in known as TweetMyBlog that enables you to make a 2-way affiliation from your blogs to Twitter. TweetMyBlog allows you to use a widget on your WordPress blogs that will display your current Twitter feed.. that means all visitors to your blog will examine the widget and see a running feed of your latest Twitter posts. If they click on that they can be delivered to your Twitter page. In addition, when you make a brand new post to your blog, TweetMyBlog can automatically create a post to your Twitter page with a link to your latest blog post. Imagine the extra exposure you can receive by using these tools that facilitate folks see additional of what you’re doing.

Finally, have a good time! Twitter is social site after all… therefore interact and take pleasure in this service!

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News – Not So Lazy: The Sunday Times

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:34:16 +0000

The promise of technology is to help people help themselves. At Twitter, we are united in our belief that software has the ability to augment humanity in productive and meaningful ways. For us, it has been a year during which we realized that no matter how sophisticated the algorithms get, no matter how many machines we add to the network, our work is not about the triumph of technology, it is about the triumph of humanity. Thank you to The Sunday Times for publishing my look back at 2009, “Why we can never rest: a year in the life of Twitter.” We’re looking forward to another intense yet gratifying year reminding us why we find it meaningful to develop ways for people to express themselves and communicate openly.

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Twitter opening up to advertising – Yahoo! Canada News

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:47:00 +0000

Twitter opening up to advertising – Yahoo! Canada News

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.

“In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post late Thursday. “We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before.”

Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.

Stone did not provide any details in his blog post about plans to allow advertising on Twitter, which has received tens of millions of dollars in investment from venture capitalists.

The new terms read: “The Services may include advertisements, which may be targeted to the Content or information on the Services, queries made through the Services, or other information.

“The types and extent of advertising by Twitter on the Services are subject to change,” they add. “In consideration for Twitter granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Twitter and its third party providers and partners may place such advertising on the Services.”

The San Francisco-based Twitter has been looking at various way to make money and Stone said earlier this year that one method could be charging fees for commercial accounts used by businesses to spread messages on Twitter.

In June, Twitter began handing out authenticity badges as a way to verify that people “tweeting” are who they claim to be. Such badges are seen as something businesses might be willing to pay for.

In his blog post, Stone also said that while the new terms allow Twitter to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” messages on the services users own their “tweets.”

“They are your tweets, and they belong to you,” he said.

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