Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Russian celebrities are not really that different from every other celebrity in the world in their hunt for PR. Logically, many of them quickly jumped on the Twitter bandwagon when they realized the PR power of it. Tina Kandelaki, a TV personality, is one of the most active Twitter users among Russian celebrities as she [...]

A president of a country can definitely be considered an open-minded and tech-aware progressive person when he or she has a Twitter account. After all, it is the most fashionable way to connect to citizens online these days. But what if a president actually has as many as two Twitter accounts? I really don’t know [...]

Today quite a number of my Russian friends on Twitter are discussing terrible news: a Twitter account of a Russian politician (in fact, working right here in the city of Novosibirsk where I happen to live myself) has been suspended for what seems to be political reasons. The account @sapelkin belongs to Vitaly Sapelkin, a [...]

As the vast majority of people hardly realize, today is the 140th day of the year which is supposed to be a good reason to celebrate the day of Twitter – the immensely popular web service that is trying to teach the world the arts of brevity, clarity, and precision by making us express everything [...]

Can you name any field that you want to get news on and somehow don’t manage to find relevant sources on Twitter? I certainly can’t as Twitter has definitely become a brief copy of the entire internet and you can get to know almost everything that exists online via Twitter – but only in a [...]

As many of you already know, earlier today a terrible tragedy happened in Moscow – two explosions in the subway executed by two female suicide bombers and took lives of 38 people (with many still in intensive care of various hospitals so the number will probably increase still in the coming days). The worst part [...]

Of course no one will argue these days that Twitter has become a huge online phenomenon and it influences lots of things for both end users, online and offline businesses. But how huge is it outside of the US where the trendy service is heavily promoted in traditional media? Russian internet giant Yandex has recently [...]

I have to admit it: I’ve been living a life of lies for the last 3 years with my two identities rarely even meeting each other. My first identity is the online one – or basically me when my computer is turned on and I write, blog, comment or discuss something. In this life I [...]

For quite a while I have been witnessing people experimenting with the very same methods of promoting their accounts on Twitter without actually inventing anything new. In fact, these methods have probably existed for almost as long as Twitter itself has been available to the general public and they probably look boring to everyone already. [...]