Jason Sadler is the next in a long line of Internet-savvy marketers who are working the ‘net to make a buck. Remember the MILLION DOLLAR HOME PAGE, where businesses paid $1 per pixel to have their logo displayed on a giant home page? Yeah, they made their money (and a lot of press).
Jason is doing the same type of thing, but instead of selling pixels, he’s selling his body.
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Everyone who uses Twitter knows that Twitter limits all tweets to 140-characters.
That means some people get very creative with their abbreviations and phrasing in order to squeeze every last bit of information into those 140-characters.
But even with that restriction, it is possible to write TWECIPES aka COOKING RECIPES in those 140 characters.
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A report came out this week about Twitter, regarding how users new to Twitter use the service, a STATE OF THE TWITTERSPHERE, if you will.
In short, the conclusion is that the vast majority of Twitter accounts are inactive at best. Some users sign in and tweet just once, resulting in an “ORPHAN TWEET“. If you happen to run across one yourself, feel free to retweet it with the #orphantweet hashtag.
The bigger question, however, is how prevelant are these orphan tweets? Consider this: as in real-life, so goes Twitter: the top 10% of the most active Twitter users account for over 90% of the overall Twitter traffic.
Continue reading "Twitter Users are a Bunch of Quitters… and other Twitter Usage Statistics"
Josh Highland, as we saw in Web Watch yesterday, is classified on Tweeting Too Hard as being a narcisstic Twitter tool. Not at the top of the list, but a tool nonetheless.
But he doesn’t deserve to be on that list. He just tweets about things that are meaningful to him.
Like trying to get 20,000 Twitter users to follow him.
Continue reading "Get 20,000 Followers, Get a Twitter Tattoo"
A few months ago, Web Watch posted a CALCULATION TO DETERMINE HOW NARCISSTIC A CELEBRITY WAS IN USING TWITTER.
It ends up that we didn’t need to bother, as a calculation is unnecessary.
TWEETING TOO HARD is a look at what people are Twittering about, and if you find your tweets getting posted on the site, the general consensus will be, “Yes, you ARE a tool… and here’s the proof.”
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The 2009 WEBBY AWARDS nominations have been announced, showcasing the very best ideas and website executions. The Webbies will be presented on June 8th.
One of the nominations in the Celebrity/Fan category is CELEBRITY TWEET.
Celebrity Tweet is a directory of verified celebrity Twitter accounts that you can follow if you choose to do so.
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Some Twitter users can a bit like lemmings, retweeting or otherwise repeating exactly what other Twitter users do whenever something cool is going around. Everybody wants to be different, but they still want to exist as part of the in-crowd and participate in a group activity.
Some memes, like #Honk, exist just to be silly and fun.
Sometimes, a meme is grown out of necessity before it takes on a life of its own.
#FollowFriday was the brainchild of Micah Brown. The concept was simple: all Micah wanted was the names of other cool or interesting people to follow on Twitter (since finding those people on your own can be a daunting experience as Twitter doesn’t have a “I’m a cool person” checkbox on the user profile pages that others could search on).
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As Web Watch asked in our DISNEYLAND PARK PLANNER iPHONE APPLICATION article a few weeks ago:
“One would only hope that they’ll follow this up with appropriate apps for Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySEA, Universal Studios Hollywood, New York City subway trains, or any other amusement park, event, travel, or entertainment facility that would benefit from the social technology that the iPhones and similar devices make available.”
And now the floodgates have opened as more apps just like what we described have begun to arrive:
Continue reading "Calculating Amusement Park Wait Times via Twitter"
By now you’ve heard of the TWITTER RACE between Ashton Kutcher and CNN to be the first Twitter user to have 1 million followers.
The TWITTER RACE website, updated every 10 minutes, has CNN in the lead right now by about 21k followers (give or take a few as I type this).
Electronic Arts, the video game publisher behind the Madden franchise and other hit games, just tweeted that they were going to award Ashton Kutcher’s 1,000,000th follower a copy of every game EA makes in 2009 for the winner’s system, and will also be featured in The Sims 3 video game. They estimate that this whole thing will be over in the next 15-20 hours or so, at the current rate those two users are attracting followers.
Continue reading "Tweet Race 2009: @aplusk vs @cnnbrk (wins @EA loot)"
The British Gossip website HOLY MOLY has come up with their own CALCULATION TO DETERMINE A RATING FOR HOW NARCISSTIC A CELEBRITY IS BY USING TWITTER.
When looking at a celebrity’s Twitter account, the celebrity is labeled as a “narcissitic tool” if they have more followers than they are following others.
The equation is
100-((100/# of followers) * # of following)
Using this equation, here are the top 20, along with their Twitter Narcissism rating. For those interested, Holy Moly has included a handy spreadsheet for you to see their full list, as well as add your own friends and family.
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Introducing Woofer – the Anti-Twitter
Superman had Bizarro Superman.
And now Twitter has Bizarro Twitter… aka WOOFER.
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