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Twitter

Hummingbird The Next Twitter Scam

March 23, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings And yes, we are there. Twitter just landed its first one page marketing selling program scam. Hummingbird is offering you the “tools” the big brands are using. For a mere $197 you can purchase this program how to become popular on Twitter, and spam away.  The producers of this piece of shit claim [...]

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CNN #1 biggest Twitter Tribe

March 4, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings Barack Obama has lost the #1 position in Twitter followers. Officially CNN Breaking News has the biggest entourage of the Twitter scene; (measured through Twittercounter) And it’s impressive how fast their posse has grown in the last couple of days.  Wow, this is really showing how fast Twitter is becoming mainstream. Now [...]

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TwitterRemote trying out a new widget

February 27, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings I just installed the Twitter remote widget. It’s a new widget from the same guys who brought you TwitterCounter. As they describe it: Put a TwitterRemote on your site and see who visites you. TwitterRemote also gives visitors a chance to easily Tweet your address or reply to you, or chat with [...]

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Twitter Rolodex for Journalists

February 25, 2009

Overall RatingNo RatingsWhat a plane crashed in the Hudson river and the famous picture was published on Twitpic, the phone didn’t stop ringing for the maker of that picture Janis Krums. All the news agencies were trying to get an interview, and their main source of contacting the maker was through Twitter. Today another horrible [...]

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Picture of Dutch government meeting ends up on Twitter

February 13, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings Dutch minister of foreign affairs got into trouble for posting a picture taken during an ministerial meeting.  Maxime Verhagen posted the picture of a secret meeting on Twitpic. Above is the picture of the secret meeting Verhagen made in the Trêveszaal The Prime Minister, J.P. Balkenende, of The Netherlands was obviously not happy with [...]

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A Note About Tracking Cookie

February 4, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings Some of the advertisers and Web analytics firms used on this site may place “tracking cookies” on your computer. We are telling you about them right upfront, and we want you to know how to get rid of these tracking cookies if you like. Read more » The Read more link goes [...]

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Twitter something useful; It’s Saturday!

January 31, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings Are we all sure we are using Twitter to provide value in conversations? Sure enough I learned a lot from just reading what other people are saying, or the links they share. But from the Twitter stats at Twist it looks like we don’t have a lot of valuable things to say [...]

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God, I’ve got something to tell you…

January 22, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings The ultimate experience has happened… I can now speak to God directly. Millions of people have the feeling they can do that for years, and they actually come together every Sunday morning to do so, but they hope God is listening. Those people we call Catholics. I got a direct line since this morning. Since [...]

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The Future of Monetization on Twitter is…

January 21, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings Featured Tweets…? When will Twitter start with this? After seeing this Tweet from Boris, I knew he is up to something. Boris is one of the founders of Twittercounter (full disclosure, I know Boris!). Featured User spot on TwitterCounter is now sold out until April. Just increased the price, again, but requests [...]

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