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Of the 190 million users on Twitter, only 20,000 of them create roughly half of what's consumed on the micro-blogging site. These highly influential tweeters, or "elite" members, are in part comprised of celebrities in the traditional sense, but they also include bloggers, authors, journalists, and subject matter experts.
A Twitter revolution in the practices of journalists covering breaking news has significant implications for journalism. It places pressure on the traditional news agency wires which are now regularly slower with the news than Twitter’s easily-updated network.
It’s about Twitter. It’s got the Twitter seal of approval. It also has an endorsement from Perez Hilton, who also appears in the thing.* It’s actually quite funny, too.
Twitter has recently changed the Terms of Service for its Developer API. This has wide-ranging implications for those programmers who wish to provide alternative ways to access Twitter’s service.
Third-party clients are losing marketshare to Twitter clients, as the communications platform expands its offerings, and acquires third-party clients. But still the power users are choosing TweetDeck, UberSocial, Seesmic and other popular third-party clients because they are more feature-rich. These clients also integrate with other social networks, such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
Twitters take on the Twitter ecosystem. 7 curated and clustered stories
It's really a twofer they laid down today in slamming all potential twitter clients, effectively saying they're not gonna approve them. ...They are purposefully terminating much of the innovation that made their platform great and that is a really, really, bad move.
it’s official. Twitter has declared war on its 3rd party client developers. .... One question though…did Twitter release this bombshell on the community on a Friday afternoon where they thought that their userbase would be distracted?
The original post from Ryan Sarver, Platform lead for Twitter: We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way. ... A lot of Twitter’s success is attributable to a diverse ecosystem of more than 750,000 registered apps. We will continue to support this innovation.
I have seen so many posts written about the dynamics of Twitter retweets, and every time I read one, I always want to write my own on the topic. I'm excited
Over the weekend, a minor firestorm erupted over a new feature in the official Twitter iPhone and iPad clients known as the “Quick Bar,” showing trending topics. Although the company has since said that a new update is on its way that will make the feature less annoying, the outrage over the #dickbar is a symptom of a larger problem for Twitter: it wants to be a business, and users have gotten used to it being a utility.
It’s hard to know how much weight to assign to the Internet and its social media tools–Facebook and Twitter–in recent uprisings. But some people get worried that everyone is getting carred away. And they decide to bring us all back down to earth. “It’s not that simple!” they cry. #The name I am giving to these cries is Twitter Can’t Topple Dictators, a genre that is starting to get a swelled head about itself.
Here's a startling statistic from Death and Taxes: Twitter-users post 50 million messages per day. it would take the average person 10 years to read one day's worth of Twitter posts.
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Yes; that is right: 50 Best Twitter Tools & Services.
So why do users coming from Facebook and Twitter get unlimited access? Because, as a reporter from a smaller daily paper told me last fall, social networks are driving a ton of newspaper traffic.
First, this action says that spreading virally on social networks like Twitter and Facebook is more important to them than the resulting traffic from Google. And second, this is a strategic bet that they likely believe will result in the most vocal people on the web being less pissed off.
The Twitter platform is a means of communication, too. It's a little media; it's a little social, no? How can we create channels or segmentation within social media that allow us to use them for all the possible ways they were designed or have become used for, without sometimes coming off like insensitive jerks?
Ryan Sarver, a member of Twitter’s platform/api team, took a few minutes today to address concerns about the Twitter ecosystem and in particular its announcement on Friday that developers shouldn’t develop new twitter clients. The gist of what Sarver said is this; Twitter won’t be asking anyone to shut down just as long as they stick within the required api limits.
Pure play Twitter clients - apps like Echofon & UberTwitter - got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver. if you’re thinking about making an app that displays and sends tweets, Twitter suggest you think again. Especially if that app has a different look and feel or uses different terms than Twitter uses itself. In other words, Twitter wants devs to build apps that use Twitter, not Twitter apps.
The message from Twitter is clear: "Third-parties shouldn’t be creating straight-up Twitter clients any further". ... "If I were a third-party developer, I probably wouldn’t invest time in creating a new TweetDeck-like app."
An announcement by Ryan Sarver, a member of the platform team at Twitter, could spell bad news for makers of third-party apps.Twitter has essentially decided that no new apps should be developed "that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience."
Future growth in Twitter usage has to come from consumers, not creators. Tools to make the service easier to consume (better topic segmentation, curation and consumption tools for the masses) will be necessary to get it over the hump.
Tweets From Tahrir - the book - will use tweets posted during the 18 days of protests in Egypt to tell the story of the revolution in 140-character snippets.
Twitter users seem to be acting as a filter and amplifier for the trends that are written about by mainstream media. The main determinant of a fast-growing topic on Twitter is the specific subject at hand, not who tweets it or how often. About 31 percent of trending topics are retweets, or someone passing the tweet on to their friends.
If you're looking for a way to engage your fans and incorporate Twitter into the gameday experience, then really do it. Don't utilize social media just to be hip or offer customer service when there are so many other ways it could offer value to your most passionate fans.
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