Posts tagged twitter
It saddens me that the world has arrived at a moment where I can honestly say this: I liked the twitter feed better.
Twitter Bans All Ad Platforms Besides Their Own
In the second recent threat to Twitter’s developer-friendly reputation, Costolo announces in a blog post that: “Aside from Promoted Tweets, we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API.”
Building a developer community around your product is like waking a Golem.
Yahoo Integrating Twitter, Twitter Getting Cash
Twitter has fallen backwards into the perfect revenue model for their current situation: selling access to their data.
Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google will keep them in the black and flush while they take their sweet time figuring out the right way to bring advertising to their network. The platform agnostic position they find themselves in is certainly sweet, especially as the internet is starting to fragment into big platform chunks.
Q: If people on Twitter and Tumblr all agree that this is a horrible move by NBC, then why is NBC going ahead with it?
A: Because octogenarians don’t use Twitter or Tumblr.
Oh, it’s not just octogenarians… This is a great occasion to remember how small Twitter’s active userbase is compared to the population of television watching ‘mericans. Plus, I’d bet most of the people above mostly watch Conan with commercial-free Hulu clips embedded in blogs.
Why AOL Will Buy Twitter?
I was skeptical, but by the end I was convinced. Smart thinking by an old boss.
Michael Ian Black Wants to Roast You on Twitter
Tomorrow from 2 to 3pm EST Black will be poking fun at you, his Twitter followers, via tweets in exchange for $5 donated to charity.
Apart from the obvious boon of donating to a good cause — Sunrise Community to be exact — your $5 donation nets you one tweet that pokes fun of you, distributed to a captive audience of 1.5 million Twitterers, courtesy of the caustic comedian.
Reason #209,495 one should take third party web analytics with a grain of salt: Comscore just improved their tracker to better capture surfing from at-work computers. Now, LinkedIn is measured a tad more accurately. (Via TechCrunch)
St. Louis Real Life Mayor Francis Slay doesn’t see the point of Foursquare. (Via Gawker)
Instant follow.
“ But lately Facebook has been turning into a bar too—specifically, a bar the night before Thanksgiving.”
