It’s gonna be a great year for stalkers.
In August, Twitter unveiled a location-sharing feature. It was limited to the API, so that developers could incorporate location data without having to require profiles in their own apps.
Now, Twitter is allowing geotagged Tweets directly from its site. The update is being rolled out, so most of you don’t have it yet. Or you might just need to use the right browser.
Tweeting with location only works on Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome on Windows. Sorry, Safari and IE users.
It’s being rolled out to Direct Messages first, where much of the spamming occurs.
All links sent through Direct Messages will be submitted to this service. They’ll be checked for spam and then shortened using a twt.tl root link.
Twitter says that even if a bad link has already been sent out through a Direct Message, if a user clicks, Twitter will be able to protect them.
You’ll be able to Tweet directly from the Yahoo! homepage.
Like Google and Bing, Yahoo! has integrated Twitter into their search results. But that wasn’t good enough for Bartz and the gang. No, they wouldn’t be satisfied until people could conduct some serious Tweeting from Yahoo! itself. And so a deal has been struck.
If you so choose, you will be able to access your Twitter feed from Yahoo! including Mail and the Sports portal. You’ll also be able to Tweet to your heart’s content, directly from Yahoo!
You’ll be able to Tweet directly from the Yahoo! homepage.
Like Google and Bing, Yahoo! has integrated Twitter into their search results. But that wasn’t good enough for Bartz and the gang. No, they wouldn’t be satisfied until people could conduct some serious Tweeting from Yahoo! itself. And so a deal has been struck.
If you so choose, you will be able to access your Twitter feed from Yahoo! including Mail and the Sports portal. You’ll also be able to Tweet to your heart’s content, directly from Yahoo!
At SES London 2010, we launched a grand experiment in which we projected a customised Twitter feed of all the tweets originating directly from the conference onto the wall. Did it have any impact on the conference?
Well, within a matter of hours the #SESlondon hashtag became a trending topic on Twitter in the UK. Given the new venue, the new speaker line up and the fact that organizing every single SES event is a huge challenge in itself – it was a pretty magic moment for us internet marketing geeks at Incisive Media.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Twitter!
Twitter has released data charting the number of Tweets per day (TPD). The growth has been astronomical. It’s difficult to tell in the chart below, but Twitter says it had just 5,000 Tweets a day in January 2007. I remember being on Twitter back then and it was far easier to have conversations and network.
But volume grew quickly, as did the nature of Twitter. Twitter reached about 10 million TPD around July 2009 and, a year and a half later, has reached the 50 million TPD level. That averages out to about 600 Tweets per second (TPS – insert Office Space joke here).
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Twitter!
Twitter has released data charting the number of Tweets per day (TPD). The growth has been astronomical. It’s difficult to tell in the chart below, but Twitter says it had just 5,000 Tweets a day in January 2007. I remember being on Twitter back then and it was far easier to have conversations and network.
But volume grew quickly, as did the nature of Twitter. Twitter reached about 10 million TPD around July 2009 and, a year and a half later, has reached the 50 million TPD level. That averages out to about 600 Tweets per second (TPS – insert Office Space joke here).
Local search engine CitySquares is the latest to incorporate Twitter into their offering. They’re allowing businesses to display their Twitter feed on their profiles.
Not only is this a great way to add an additional method of contacting your business, but it offers you the opportunity to show off your customer service chops to potential customers. Also, if you regularly Tweet about promotions or coupons, it could entice a new customer to come in and make a purchase.
Marissa Green, Marketing Associate at CitySquares commented on their official blog:
Will Google’s version give Facebook and Twitter a run for their money?
As rumored yesterday, Google launched a new social effort today called Google Buzz. If you’re immediate reaction is, “Wait, doesn’t Yahoo! already have a product named Buzz?” Then you’d be correct. But Google didn’t acquire Yahoo! Buzz. Nor has Yahoo! Buzz gone defunct and Google felt ok about picking it up as a name.
The two products are alike in name and the fact that they’re social. But that’s about it.
Google Buzz lets you be social from Gmail. You can update your status there and share photos. (Yahoo! Buzz is more akin to social bookmarking and trending topics.)
After failing to acquire Twitter, will Google now compete?
You can already put current status in your GTalk display. Apparently, now, GMail users will be prompted to share what’s up with them. However, when they update again, the previous update will disappear for good.
At least, that’s according to a report in Wall Street Journal (subscription required). The new feature isn’t official yet, but the Wall Street Journal is hardly ever wrong. They seem to be the go-to source for leaks – likely quite official leaks.
