It seems that Twitter is becoming an increasingly useful barometer of buzz around products or services. (Services like Twitterbuzz could benefit if you discount Tinyurl!).
It happened recently with FriendFeed, when I noticed about 10 of my contacts on Twitter all signing up or chatting about it. And it happened again yesterday with Tumblr.
There [...]
Entries from February 2008
Is the Tumblr buzz justified? Is it the new Twitter?
February 29th, 2008 · Comments
Tags: Blogging
Conversation about definition: Marketing, Blog, Bloggers, Public Relations (PR)
February 27th, 2008 · Comments
Aside from an exponential increase in my involvement on Twitter, and setting up FriendFeed on an experimental basis, probably my most interesting discussion at the moment is with Brendan Cooper, the creator of the PR Friendly Index.
Having submitted this blog, I was curious whether it’s non-appearance was down to performance, or definition (I promise I [...]
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An amazing piece of crowdsourcing by a newspaper/website
February 24th, 2008 · Comments
Just a short update, due to my need to finish decorating a nursery and cooking the evening meal. But I had to share one of the best examples of crowdsourcing I’ve seen, and by newspaper and website. (I picked this up via Jeff Jarvis)
Documents relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy have been discovered [...]
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Are Myspace and Facebook in decline?
February 22nd, 2008 · Comments
It’s not surprising there’s been a lot of response to the Nielsen Online findings that both Facebook and Myspace have dropped around 5% in UK audience figures for January 2008, month-on-month. Bebo also dropped 2% for UK users MoM for January.
It’s worth noting that the findings come from monitoring UK usage at home and at [...]
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