Category: Twitter

  • The continuing growth of Twitter

    An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline. That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network,…

  • Quit smoking with Twitter

    Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking. Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is,…

  • The cost of Twitter productivity is a bargain

    During last summer, there was a spate of mainstream media commentary that social networks like Facebook serve little or no purpose from a business point of view. Much reporting about companies banning Facebook in the workplace. We were even treated…

  • T-Mobile banning Twitter makes no business sense

    If you don’t understand it, don’t allow it. That could be the thinking behind why mobile operator T-Mobile has begun blocking Twitter usage in the US, and opening up a customer service debacle, not to mention a public relations one.…

  • A hell of a way to get up to speed about data protection

    You’d have had to be off planet not to have heard about this political disaster that blew up yesterday which led to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling apologizing in the House of Commons. I watched the whole thing live…