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The New York Times: The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast? It’s a reasonable question. Twitter unleashes the diarist in its 14 million users, who visited its site 99 million times last month to read posts tapped out
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Springwise: BakerTweet allows bakers to keep their customers informed. But because bakery kitchens don’t tend to be hospitable to electronic devices–replete as they are with flour, eggs and other messy stuff–BakerTweet uses a specially designed box that can withstand the messiest kitchen conditions. Bakers begin by creating an account online with BakerTweet using their regular
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photo credit: miss_rogue Twitter not only helps you connect with millions of people it is a phenomenal research tool. Businesses and organizations collectively pay millions of dollars for case studies, reports, white papers, think tanks, and focus groups in the hopes of obtain business building information on their industry and target market. One of the
PaidContent.org: Companies can’t run ads on Twitter (yet), but in five years, a prime spot on the micro-blogging service’s “suggested users” list might be worth well over a million dollars. That’s what Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis told TechCrunch, after offering Twitter’s founders $250,000 to secure a place on the list for the next two years.
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Gadgetwise: Why do so many Twitterers seem to be aspiring stand-up comics? “Good news: Cure for diabetes in mice,” Josh Donoghue, known as awryone, tweets from somewhere in Connecticut. “Bad news: in order for the cure to work on people, they must release whole mice into the bloodstream.” “I fell victim to a Fonzie scheme,”
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The Wall Street Journal: When 25-year-old Justin Rockwell was laid off from his job as a Web developer last fall, he began scrounging for freelance gigs. He also found himself spending a lot of time on Twitter, answering Web development problems for fellow Twitterers. Eventually, Rockwell realized there was a market for his services on
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