Category: Twitter

  • How people tweet in China

    How people tweet in China

    Whenever China is a topic of business conversation, a communication service that’s talked about is Sina Weibo. The micro-blogging service – China’s Twitter equivalent – got mainstream attention outside China last month over its use as a primary communication channel…

  • Twitter psychology infographic: it’s about retweets

    A visual feast in this nicely-imagined infographic embedded below that offers some credible tips and tricks for attracting attention and, thus, followers. Common sense, in fact. My 3-easy-steps takeaway from  this: Tweet interesting things, perhaps with a dose of humour…

  • Making some drama from the NOTW crisis

    Last week, the focus was on the News of The World and phone hacking, culminating in the newspaper’s final edition on Sunday July 10. This week, attention has shifted dramatically as events have moved up level by level to embrace…

  • An apologetic tweeter

    A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. […] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on…

  • Social media engagement huge in China

    Experian, the global information services company, launched its Experian Hitwise measurement service in China a few days ago. The press release says that the new service will help meet increasing demand from domestic and international marketers for tools to improve…