tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74769387837713329792024-10-09T12:52:11.593-07:00Twitter NewsThe first independent Twitter News blog. The freshest and most interesting News about Twitter, collected from the entire Internet. Only trusted websites and quality sources.Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comBlogger1137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-72527411893931846242012-01-08T21:30:00.001-08:002012-01-08T21:30:04.332-08:00Twitter may help this “classy” departing NYT deliveryman get new work soonThe casualties of print media's decline, as it is squeezed by online news sources, go right the way down. When you add the current economic issues to the mix, many...Read More: Twitter may help this “classy” departing NYT deliveryman get new work soonSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-25032958870174758502012-01-06T17:38:00.001-08:002012-01-06T17:38:49.112-08:00Interesting fact: most Tweets posted are approximately 30 characters longIf you've ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of...Read More: Interesting fact: most Tweets posted are approximately 30 characters longSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-71132975203290866762012-01-06T14:05:00.001-08:002012-01-06T14:05:02.882-08:00Vote For Your Favorite Twitter User At The Shorty Awards Is there a Twitter user that you simply adore? They're helpful, friendly, and unique, and you retweet almost every tweet they send. Now you've got a way to thank them: nominate them for a Shorty Award, a public recognition of their amazing tweeting. Read More: Vote For Your Favorite Twitter User At The Shorty AwardsSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-478965912857131092012-01-06T11:47:00.001-08:002012-01-06T11:47:43.551-08:00This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: AddmiredThis week, Addmired has several positions open in its Palo Alto, Calif. office. The company is hiring a 2D digital painter/illustrator, a 3D (isometric) character artist, a 3D (isometric) environment artist, an acquisition manager/mobile ad buyer and a business intelligence analyst. Get the scoop on these gigs and more below, and find additional just-posted opportunities on mediabistro.com. 2D Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-82036298673964452552012-01-06T09:58:00.001-08:002012-01-06T09:58:13.352-08:00Twitter promises better tools to 400,000 volunteer translators, launches SwedishTwitter has today reported that it has 400,000 volunteers working on translating the service into other languages. This crowd-sourced translation has allowed them to offer Twitter in 21 languages including...Read More: Twitter promises better tools to 400,000 volunteer translators, launches SwedishSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-46101742336221306802012-01-06T09:47:00.001-08:002012-01-06T09:47:13.257-08:00Twitter, in your languageMore than 400,000 volunteers have contributed to our Translation Center, which takes a crowd-sourced approach to making Twitter available in new languages. In fact, thanks to these passionate people all over the world, Twitter is offered in 21 languages. We’ve recently introduced it in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Polish — and today, we launch in Swedish.As the number of volunteer translators Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-14322042700477337982012-01-06T09:33:00.001-08:002012-01-06T09:33:28.568-08:00Learn From Best Buy’s Mistake: Your Twitter Account Is Not An IslandBest Buy is well known for its Twitter-based customer service account @Twelpforce, which is managed by over 3,000 of its employees. However, it's having some trouble integrating this digital effort into its brick-and-mortar stores. Read More: Learn From Best Buy’s Mistake: Your Twitter Account Is Not An IslandSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-28681142966102937452012-01-06T07:17:00.001-08:002012-01-06T07:17:52.067-08:00Get Your Twitter Name Tattooed Onto An Athlete Just In Time For The Olympics Now here's an entrepreneur for the digital age: an Olympic athlete is offering to tattoo the name of one Twitter user onto his arm in order to subsidize his training for London. Read More: Get Your Twitter Name Tattooed Onto An Athlete Just In Time For The OlympicsSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-18552449412401527862012-01-06T03:04:00.001-08:002012-01-06T03:04:27.267-08:00Twitter 2011: One Billion Tweets Every 5 Days (And Other Record-Breaking Events) [INFOGRAPHIC]2011 was a huge year for Twitter, with the social platform breaking records left, right and centre.The Japanese celebration of the New Year started the ball rolling, and in May, Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. Despite a host of major events, including earthquakes in Japan and the USA, the death of Steve Jobs and Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-11837833756812226982012-01-05T14:03:00.001-08:002012-01-05T14:03:51.531-08:00Kanye West Launched A Business On Twitter Last Night Music man Kanye West took to Twitter last night in a frenzy, launching a business that would see "as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people…" get involved as possible. Read More: Kanye West Launched A Business On Twitter Last NightSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-30804534245457072432012-01-05T12:31:00.001-08:002012-01-05T12:31:38.901-08:00Let's Fly: Embeddable TweetsTweets have become one of the most important — and simplest — ways for people to share news, humor, inspiration, and knowledge online. And they are even richer when they include pictures, videos, locations, or links to other sites on the web. With the new version of Twitter, anyone can embed Tweets simply by copying and pasting one line of code into their website. Embedded Tweets automatically Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-21555200652653625522012-01-05T11:58:00.001-08:002012-01-05T11:58:28.726-08:00Twitter brand pages only have one chance to make an impression. Here are some tips.With Twitter making a lot of big changes at the end of 2011, one of the changes that we caught a glimpse of was Twitter brand pages. A few select brands were given...Read More: Twitter brand pages only have one chance to make an impression. Here are some tips.Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-79262010016179916982012-01-05T11:50:00.001-08:002012-01-05T11:50:20.209-08:00This Charity Swear Jar Does A Little Bit Of Good Every Time You Curse Does rush hour really &!$$ you off? And you find yourself venting on Twitter? If you're one of the many who simply can't sanitize your language in 140 characters, you're in luck: you can now keep your foul mouth running, while earning money for charity at the same time. Read More: This Charity Swear Jar Does A Little Bit Of Good Every Time You CurseSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-29788580034909029622012-01-05T11:19:00.001-08:002012-01-05T11:19:00.929-08:00Twitter doesn’t label users ‘anti-social’, but does remove tweets from searchA report by SD Times yesterday tried to call attention to a suspected practice by Twitter to label users as "anti-social", thus removing their tweets from search results on the...Read More: Twitter doesn’t label users ‘anti-social’, but does remove tweets from searchSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-4479044510508629962012-01-05T09:36:00.001-08:002012-01-05T09:36:47.405-08:00Could Twitter Predict Election Results Better Than A Traditional Poll?The Washington Post has created an app for election season that tracks Twitter and media mentions of all of the US candidates. And considering the real-time nature of Twitter, it could prove to be a better measure of public sentiment than traditional polls. 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Why? Because it's smaller. But because it's small, you get less engagement. Less questions. Less demands on your time.As your following grows, and especially when you breach your tipping point, you get more engagement. More questions. More demands. Subsequently, you have less time toSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-77450174782205664192012-01-05T03:09:00.001-08:002012-01-05T03:09:03.334-08:00Cuba Blames Twitter User And “Necrophiliac Counter-Revolutionaries” For Castro Death RumoursCuba has accused Twitter of both starting and helping to spread a rumour that began on Monday that former leader Fidel Castro had died, suggesting that the social network helped spread disinformation about Castro’s passing by allowing the #fidelcastro hashtag to become a trending topic.The state-run Cubadebate website singled out one user for particularly harsh criticism, before suggesting that "Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-26613715948116735392012-01-04T14:01:00.001-08:002012-01-04T14:01:34.493-08:003 Ways to Cut Down on the Noise on TwitterOne of the most common reasons people give up on Twitter is because it's too "noisy". There are simply too many tweets that they don't care about, constantly streaming through their timeline. This noise is natural from a network that sees about one billion tweets sent out every week, but it doesn't mean you have to put up with it! Here are three ways to cut down on the noise on Twitter to have a Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-86717258518685906152012-01-04T12:13:00.001-08:002012-01-04T12:13:29.450-08:00U.S. Department of State will start answering your Twitter questions from the podiumTwitter is getting more involved with politics as it gears up for the 2012 elections. This time, the company has announced an official involvement. In a tweet today, the official...Read More: U.S. Department of State will start answering your Twitter questions from the podiumSeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-55794908619592654092012-01-04T11:48:00.001-08:002012-01-04T11:48:35.396-08:00The Top Tweets In Small Business In 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] Many small businesses have come on board the Twitter train. It's a low-cost, effective marketing solution for one-person operations, small start-ups and other shops that can't afford a prime-time Super Bowl ad.The folks at Future Simple took a look at the most retweeted tweets from the small business community over the last year, and put them in an easy-to-read infographic. Read More: The Top Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-65650062670062733542012-01-04T09:34:00.001-08:002012-01-04T09:34:57.894-08:00US State Department To Answer Twitter Questions Every Friday As part of its initiative to harness more digital technology for diplomacy, the US State Department will be taking questions via Twitter in 10 different languages, and answering them during a press briefing every Friday for the month of January. Read More: US State Department To Answer Twitter Questions Every FridaySeo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-41611306859716657992012-01-04T08:53:00.001-08:002012-01-04T08:53:43.613-08:00Corporate Twitter Accounts: the Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain BoringThe inspiration for this post came from an incident that I had the other day involving a sandwich and a popular pharmacy chain. You see, having purchased my sandwich from Boots at the station and boarded my train home, I was enraged to find that one of the most heinous sandwich-related crimes had been committed [...]Read More: Corporate Twitter Accounts: the Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-20847987582990271252012-01-04T07:21:00.001-08:002012-01-04T07:21:32.721-08:00Would You Follow More Sports Stars On Twitter If They Had Their Usernames On Their Jerseys? Sports and Twitter have gone together like peanut butter and jam since day one. Sports stars have taken to expressing themselves pre- and post-game in 140-characters or less – and now Twitter is moving offline, and onto the players' jerseys. Read More: Would You Follow More Sports Stars On Twitter If They Had Their Usernames On Their Jerseys?Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476938783771332979.post-59735927814749071402012-01-04T02:06:00.001-08:002012-01-04T02:06:29.691-08:00Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Deleted’ Tweet Hasn’t Been Deleted At All (And Everyone Can Read It ...Yesterday we reported about the arrival of Rupert Murdoch on Twitter, the ‘scandal’ that’s been caused by some of the messages he’s been sending on the network, and the accidental verification of a Twitter profile that pretended to be Murdoch’s wife, Wendi, but actually turned out to be a hoax.Egg on Twitter’s face. Even worse, a rather disparaging tweet that Murdoch wrote about Britons that he Seo Papahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445272214256367108noreply@blogger.com