Tag: twitter
People get bored with Twitter quicker than they do with Facebook, says research
Apparently over 40% of respondents who said they had tried Twitter only used it once or twice before getting bored. That's four times the number of people who give up on Facebook. It does suggest that these are people who have heard of Twitter, felt like they needed to give it a go, but have no real idea how to use it.
Brizzly review – it is like the Twitter home page on steroids
Even cooler IMO is the way Brizzly embeds content, so for example if someone has the URL of a YouTube video in their tweet the video pops up in the Brizzly stream.
Survey says Twitter users would click on ads – if they were there…
The report suggests that Twitter users are twice as likely to review or rate products, visit online visit company profiles and click on advertisements or sponsors than Facebook or MySpace users are.
This week's top five tech movers – Giffgaff, Voda and a surprise at #1
Well we have a surprise at number one and a very interesting start up doing well. And see if you can guess which mobile phone network is this week's biggest loser?
Opinion: Why the iPhone might just be killing O2's reputation
O2 is getting a hammering on Twitter. And that's not just the view of a group of iPhone owners in my local (or some unhappy bloggers) but the main headline in a report published by media company Kaizo.
Twitter about to secure another $100 million of funding
According to WSJ that makes Twitter worth a nice round $1 billion. Not bad for a company that hasn't yet made any money or indeed said how it intends to make money. For reference sake Facebook, which has around 300 million users, is apparently worth around $15 billion
Motorola reveals app line up for DEXT Android smartphone – looks impressive, but not as good as the CLIQ
Bizarrely though unlike the US CLIQ there's no Twitter client – I guess you choose your own from the Android Market – and also Mint and the highly useful TeleNav Navigator both of which feature on the CLIQ.
The Next Big Sound – the website that might just be the future of music charts
It does this by collating plays, views, fans, comments, and other data for almost half a million artists across major online properties, including iTunes, Last.fm, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
Move over Stephen Fry and Wossy. Britain has a new top tweeter
To his credit Bacon was one of the first BBC radio presenters to realise that Tweeting was fantastic way of interacting with an audience. So he will often use his feed to ask his listeners questions, plug the guests on the show and encourage fellow tweeters to express their opinions.
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