Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Last Thursday Twitter officially announced its war on spam on the microblogging service and provided some details on what measures would be implemented. Basically they hired a dedicated person to track accounts engaging in suspicious activities, suspending and reviewing these accounts to either completely remove or restore if the account owner is found to be not guilty. One of the metrics used is the number of Twitter users blocking this or that particular users (I suggested that Twitter should have [...]

I am sure that every Twitter user has already seen this or that example of marketing or promotion on Twitter. We have also seen ideas that popular users can monetize their accounts with huge numbers of followers by using some brand’s logo for their avatars and skinning for their entire pages. Today we finally see what should have been expected: marketing professionals offering their services to officially promote brands on Twitter (well, actually they seem to offer consulting services to [...]

Today Twitter blog discusses the new measures the team is taking to fight spam on Twitter. Many of us have noticed that spam on Twitter is growing into a more and more acute problem. We have also recently seen cases of very malicious ways to use Twitter when you can actually have your PC infected by a virus if you are not careful enough about what links you click. So it now looks like the Twitter team has fully acknowledged [...]

We have already seen tons of things people do on Twitter to help their business - marketing people selling staff, community managers engaging in various activities with their users, startups providing technical support, bloggers hunting for scoops and promoting their articles. But Jason Goldberg, CEO of the recently launched to the public SocialMedian has found a new (and kind of unexpected) way to use Twitter for business: he is attempting to raise investment right within the microblogging service.
True, it is [...]

Obviously the guys over at Twitter must have been unhappy about all the buzz surrounding cancellation of SMS notifications to all the countries but three - US, Canada, and India. Unhappy to the extent that Biz Stone decided to publish a separate post on Friday to highlight exactly what the fuss is all about.
To provide some “perspective”, Biz has offered us a chart representing the total volume of SMS messages sent by Twitter. The chart demonstrates that only 4% of [...]

I think we have already discussed the issue of Twitter cancelling SMS notifications to all but three countries - US, Canada, India - virtually from all possible points but we mostly focus on the users and how those users are hurt by absence of this service now. My own point here is that Twitter should have given the users a chance to compensate for the expensive (as we now know) service - either by paying directly or by agreeing to [...]

Is not it funny to see some coincidences in development of various online services? Only yesterday we spoke about Twitter cancelling SMS notifications to all the countries but the US, Canana, and India. And today when browsing news from the blogs of various startups I’m subscribed to, I was surprised to bump into an announcement on the Brightkite blog about the newly introduced international text messaging support.
In fact, this announcement is pretty straightforward and nothing really groundbreaking to talk about [...]

There are two things I want to say about Twitter today: one good and one bad. The good one is that they have finally started to think in terms of business, money and sustainability. The bad one is that they are doing it in a very peculiar way that will not be appreciated by users.
So what happened yesterday was Twitter leaving all the users outside of the US, Canada, and India without SMS notifications. The problem is that every time [...]

It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular, by calling for concepts of what internet users want the perfect browser of the future to be. Now it seems that Mozilla already has some plans of their own - and these plans seem to include Firefox domination in every possible field.
Mozilla has announced plans to develop Snowl, a Firefox extension that is intended to combine all your [...]