Tag: Twitter

  • Advice for Marketers: How not to be unliked

    Many online marketers spend their days obsessing about attracting new fans and followers, but new research from ExactTarget and CoTweet suggest that they might be wise to spend more time thinking about how to stop people ‘unliking’ their brands. The top reasons people cite for unsubscribing from emails is that they come too frequently, are…

  • Breakfast at Twitterville: why you should use Twitter

    The most common reason people give me for not using Twitter goes something like “why would anyone want to know what I had for breakfast?” It’s one of those beliefs that’s taken on near-mythological proportions, that everyone on Twitter is talking endlessly about what they’ve just eaten while everyone who’s not is clearly more sane…

  • Twitter: who’s in the class of 2010?

    Hot on the heels of Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 study, comes a quirky tree infographic showing ‘Who’s New On Twitter in 2010’. We all know that Twitter’s been in rude health these last few months, but this sapling-like diagram serves as a well-grounded reminder that it’s still far from universally adopted. Amongst the biggest names to…

  • What sort of Twitter user are you?

    [click image to enlarge] Thanks to the Wall Blog for sharing this.

  • Twitter says: “you can only Tweet with Twitter”

    Important new advice was issued by ISBA to its members today which highlights the requirement to respect Twitter’s trademarks. I’ve reproduced the guidance, which ISBA’s Director of Public Affairs, Ian Twinn, describes as “probably fairly commonsense (sic) stuff”, below: Companies may promote their own Twitter pages by using the phrase “Follow us on Twitter” or…

  • Social Media usage: the slowdown continues

    More evidence emerges of the slowdown in social media adoption, this time in the form of SocialMediaToday’s 3Q Update which uses Google AdPlanner data to assess the reach and age profile of the users of the most popular social networks. Highlights: Facebook active user count falls from 550 to 540 million Age group 55yrs+ shrinks…

  • TweetPivot – get to know your followers and followees

    Twitter users will delight in being able to use Microsoft Live Labs’ funky Pivot tool to explore their Twitterverse at http://tweetpivot.com/. Thanks to Steve Clayton for spotting this one; it’s a peach! Go pivot today! [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]