Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

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 [...]

Hello. I'm Svetlana and I'm a FriendFeed addict. I have a habit of checking FriendFeed every time that I strike out every single completed task on my to-do list (yes, I admit that I'm conservative enough to still do it on paper). A few minutes earlier I clicked the "Publish" button on the previous post and went to FriendFeed to see if I had anything urgent or interesting to reply to. And I failed. No, I mean [...]

It should have happened, obviously. We have already seen spammers invading Twitter with their one or two updates linking to the same webpage trying to sell you something. We have already seen manuals explaining how to sell on Twitter efficiently. But obviously this is not the worst that could have happened: after all, Twitter has a great potential to distribute anything, both legitimate links and opinions and spam and viruses as well. So we see someone using [...]

It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the feature of the social network. True, I actually expected more improvements right when the redesigned profiles were launched and I still think one huge thing is missing but the filters already make it better.
Logically, the new functionality launched today on Facebook allows for some additional filtering within the news feed where we see the [...]