The Slate is reporting that the Gray Lady will no longer tweet. That’s according to the New York Times’ standards editor Phil Corbett, who is pleading with writers to avoid using the word in their copy whenever possible, invoking the paper’s disdain for “colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.” There are tweet partisans: The Associated Press gave […]
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Website Magazine takes a look at one of the most creative uses of Twitter we’ve seen yet, and how it landed 300,000 visitors onto the site of online footwear retailer SuperShoes.com in less than two hours. SuperShoes recently held the first-ever known games of Twitterbingo to promote its new Drag & Share feature, which it
photo credit: jmilles With the many people that make up the Twitter community, its not hard to find a lot of annoying Twitters on there. It’s bound to happen with such a large community and people having access to not only so many people but so many features and tools as well. Below are some
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A few interesting links I’ve posted to Twitter today: A Rebellious Teenagers Guide To Starting A Lawn Care Business 13 Bad Excuses For Not Starting Your Business Quirky Crowdsources Your Product Ideas into Reality Start A Handyman Business Reuters: For some, oil spill a business opportunity FedEx restores flight hours to pre-recession levels Ouch: The
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The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter — and the interest brought the library’s servers to a standstill, reports WalletPop. In the humming computer stacks in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library, preserving digital
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Via the Twitter Blog, Twitter has just announced that they are banning all third party ads: Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market share or short-term revenue at the expense
Yep, there’s an app for that! TweetCalories, is a novelty web app that shows you approximately how many calories you’ve burned over the last 24 hours by tweeting, reports Mashable.com. The app works by assuming several factors. For example, it’s figured that the average word length in a tweet is about 6 characters. It assumes
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It’s Friday, so let’s have a little fun with Twitter. n {democracy:52} Check back later today, we’ll have the results of the quiz and the real answer! Photo by Twitter.
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Over at 99percent.com, Jack Dorsey outlines three core takeaways from his experiences building and launching Twitter — and more recently — Square, a simple payment utility. 1) Draw: get your idea out of your head and share it, 2) Luck: assess when the time (and the market) is right to execute your idea, 3) Iterate:
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A new generation of taco trucks no longer caters to hungry workers at construction sites. Instead, these food-laden vehicles bring gourmet food to customers as their owners roll out this mobile concept rather than set up a storefront and wait for clients to come to them, reports The Houston Business Journal. Julia Sharaby, chef and
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