Category: Twitter

  • Preparing for the next Twitter wave

    Twitter hit  a new milestone yesterday – 20 billion tweets. According to Mashable, the milestone comes just two months after the service hit 15 billion tweets and about five months since it reached 10 billion, indicating that activity levels on…

  • Valuable insights for marketers if they listen

    The results of a survey on how people use Twitter published yesterday adds confirmation in my mind that those who think Twitter is just another marketing channel don’t really understand people’s behaviours. The survey Twitter and the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic, conducted…

  • The Russian president tweets

    The Russian government has started a presence on Twitter in the form of two accounts under the name of the ‘President of Russia,’ one in Russian and one in English. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted his first thoughts yesterday in…

  • Facebook supreme

    Not only has Facebook gathered huge numbers of members – half a billion at the last count – but the social network has also become the number one social presence in many countries, displacing some home-grown domestic social networks. A…

  • The long and the short of it

    Two surveys published this month by Canadian research firm Sysomos looks at countries around the world and the percentage of people online who blog and tweet. There are some interesting metrics in each analysis  – age distribution and gender, for…