Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Twitter outage during Superbowl silences voices

Darren Davidson - February 8th, 2010

One of the curious things about Twitter is that the service doesn’t always deliver on what you’d expect from something that is endlessly talked about.
Amid the hype, celebrity endorsements and impressive growth rate (although the steep curve has flat lined of late), it’s sometimes forgotten that the company is essentially still quite small.
According to reports, [...]

Crystal ball social media predictions + Facebook Memology

Darren Davidson - December 23rd, 2009

Here’s a short, punchy approach to trend forecasting, with a nod to Twitter’s 140 characters format.
TrendsSpotting Market Research has just published a slideshare presentation that presents 140 character forecasts from a number of industry people with more than one eye on the social media space.
Two trends surface among the multitude of predictions: businesses and companies [...]

Social networks roll out the changes

Darren Davidson - December 15th, 2009

Some interesting changes happening at Twitter and LinkedIn at the moment, which give a hint of where both social networks are heading in the New Year.
Twitter has announced on its official blog it is to begin beta testing a new business feature called ‘Contributors’. It is not yet clear if this is one of the [...]

Charming Flashmob…

Kirk H - August 27th, 2009

I’m a big fan of comedian Richard Herring and have been since the days of Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ
Having been to his Edinburgh warm-up for his “Hitler’s Moustache” show (which was brilliant) I’ve been following his daily blog Warming Up about how it’s been going. Through his blog and his podcast, he encouraged as [...]

Visualization Kicks Butt

Jenny Hardy - August 25th, 2009

GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.
I can’t lie visualization is nerd porn, and very good. This was tweeted to me this morning by stilgherrian 
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good [...]