Yesterday techcrunch broke some news which I found interesting, in respect of twitters long term business strategy. Apparently twitter began issuing warning notices to members who are utilising the autofollow function within their account settings. (Link)
The reasoning it appears has to to with the usability of their system as a whole. They go on to [...]
It looks as though twitter may be starting to restrict access to followers information. In the past this has been an area of the site open to some abuse. Working on the follow them and they might follow you assumption, some members have been mining the seam of leading members.
Up until recently its been possible [...]
Search and Trends in Twitter for a fraction of folks.
Twitter Search has been growing ever more popular despite the fact that it lives on a subdomain of our site. Today, we’ve placed Search and Trends into the signed-in home pages of a limited set of accounts to get a better sense of how it works [...]
Twitter is starting to test ways to put its real-time search front and center. It is just bucket-testing the change right now with a few randomly selected users, so you might not see it. But you should expect it to be rolled out to everybody eventually. The search and trend features, which [...]
Could twitter become the new king of search? It seems as each day of 2009 goes by, my use of twitter is increasing. Not only in terms of tweets, but in alternate uses for the service. Most recently its Twitter Search that’s got my attention. Although twitter does its best it seems to avoid you [...]
What happens when micro-blogging turns macro-psychotic? On February 11th, marketing consultant April Dunford posted an annoyed message to Twitter, the mircro-blogging site, about being condescendingly scolded by a newspaper reporter. Although she named no names, the reporter in question, David George-Cosh of the National Post, saw her ‘tweet’ and took offense in a big way. [...]
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any [...]
Updated at 8:23 PM with statement from TwitterHawk creator. See end of post.
I just got a pointer to TwitterHawk, a clever bot that will monitor Twitter posts for key words and send automated and pre-programmed @ replies to them when those words pop up.
The service actually looks for more than just words. It can also [...]
Launching in February comes a new attempt at monetizing Twitter, not by Twitter themselves, but an advertising network called The Branch.
Founded by Zerk Media with founder James Avery, The Branch aims to create an advertising network from the various twitter tools and applications out there and, with a bit of work, this just might work. [...]
