Tag: twitter

What were the Top Words of the Decade? (You might want to Google it)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 10, 2010

Every year for the past 20 years, the AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY has gotten together to analyze and review word usage for the previous 12 months. The beginning of 2010 is no exception, as Allan Metcalf and Grant Barrett (from MacMurray College and the online dictionary Wordnik.com, respectively) have released this year’s WORD OF THE YEAR and WORD OF THE DECADE.

The word of the year? “tweet”, as either a description of the act of using Twitter, or the Twitter message itself.

The word of the decade? “google”, used as a generic verb to search the Internet.

Tags Google, Internet, News, twitter

Internet Websites

TweetedBrands tells you the most tweeted brand names

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 9, 2009

Twitter is still the best place to go if you are looking for instant feedback on any topic, product, or service.

And if you’re a business that is playing in the social media field, you would be well-served by monitoring who is at the top of the heap when it comes to Twitter mentions of brand names.

Tags business, Internet, twitter, website

Book Internet Video

Facts Behind the Social Media Revolution

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 30, 2009

Web Watch hopes that sometime over the past month, you have seen this video, entitled SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION, asking if social media (such as Twitter or Facebook) or other electronic transactions are here to stay, or just a fad.

Looking at the statistics we saw earlier, Twitter is still bordering on fad.

If you haven’t seen it, or simply want to watch it again, here it is:

httpv://www.youtube.com/v/sIFYPQjYhv8

Tags Book, Internet, statistics, survey, twitter, Video

Disney Internet shopping

Most Visited Websites and Social Networks for July 2009

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 29, 2009

comScore, a research company, has published their list of the US’s TOP 50 MOST VISITED WEBSITES FOR JULY 2009, ranked by most unique visitors.

The top 10 most visited sites (or groups of sites, such as the case with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or others) are really no surprise:

Google (with 195,538,000 unique visitors)
Yahoo (includes Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, etc)
Microsoft (includes Bing, Hotmail, Windows Update, etc)
AOL
Facebook
Fox Interactive Media (includes MySpace)
Ask
eBay
Amazon
Wikipedia

Tags CraigsList, Disney, Internet, shopping, survey, twitter, wal-mart

Funny Internet

Introducing Woofer – the Anti-Twitter

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 26, 2009

Jerry Seinfeld had Bizarro Jerry.

Superman had Bizarro Superman.

And now Twitter has Bizarro Twitter… aka WOOFER.

Tags Internet, twitter

Internet shopping Websites

I Wear Your Shirt

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 15, 2009

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.

Tags Blog, business, Internet, shopping, twitter

food Internet

Twecipes – Chefs Cook Up Recipes with Twitter

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 14, 2009

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.

Tags food, Internet, recipe, twitter

Internet News

Twitter Users are a Bunch of Quitters… and other Twitter Usage Statistics

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 12, 2009

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.

Tags Internet, News, twitter