Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Site Recommendation: DoesFollow.com

March 1st, 2010

DoesFollow.com

Ever wonder if someone follows you back on Twitter or not? I know this is already an old site, but I still find it very useful. You don’t need to worry about if someone follows you back or not. Just type in their username and your username on the textbox and click the ‘check’ button.

Click Here to visit DoesFollow.com

If You Printed Twitter This Is How It Would Look Like

January 20th, 2010

If You Print TwitterCreativeCloud imagined printing Twitter and laid it out in a detailed graphic that sums up the questions.

Printing Twitter will definitely consume a lot of money and work force. Can’t imagine if Facebook or Wikipedia will be printed as well. :) Below is the Twitter mathematical figure.

Here’s a breakdown of the graphics below:

If You Printed Twitter…

  • …the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
  • …it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
  • …the paper would weigh three and a half million pounds, the equivalent of 82 school buses fully loaded with 84 happily tweeting kids.
  • …and did nothing but read tweets throughout the entire work day, it would take 2,912 years to get through it.
  • …and laid the pages end to end, they would stretch 60,763 miles or two and a half times around the earth.
  • …on an average HP Inkjet printer, it would cost you $24,500,000 to print in black ink or $55,606,250 to include the Twitter blue.
  • …keeping up with the 26 million tweets daily would require 30 inkjet printers working around the clock to print more than 1,300,000 pages every day.

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Google and Twitter Search Deal

October 22nd, 2009

Yesterday, Bing announced that they will include Twitter and Facebook on their search results. I don’t think that the search giant will not take the advantage of having Twitter on their search results for real-time search.

Google’s Vice-President of Search Products Marissa Mayer has announced that they’re going to offer Twitter a search deal.

From the Google blog post:

“Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

It isn’t clear yet how will the Twitter feeds will appear in Google search. It maybe merged into normal search results or can be a standalone search product just like the Google Blog Search or the Do Follow Blog Search perhaps? So if it will be merged into a normal search, how will it compete with those keywords that has strong backlinks and those that haven’t been optimized?

Anyway, Google and Microsoft is here on a battle for the best and most informative real-time search. However, Google didn’t announced about Facebook yet. And Twitter has pretty clear million dollar deals here.

What the F**k is Social Media?

August 5th, 2009

I was browsing over the web news last night and I stumbled upon this wonderful presentation about social media marketing on SlideShare from Marta Kagan, Managing Director of US at Espresso. I didn’t get to see her first part of the What the F**k is Social Media last year and I was totally enlightened by the sequel of her first presentation.

What the F**k is Social Media? – I also wondered about that question when I first heard this popular social media marketing campaign that is going on over the web for quite a long time now. With the tremendous growth of these social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, blogging, etc., maybe it’s time that people who don’t have any idea about the power of social media sites to really understand how it really works. The sequel – What the F**k is Social Media: One Year Later is really one of the best presentation that I’ve seen that explains best what it is all about.

I won’t make it long for you guys to see the slide… Here you go: :)

View more documents from Marta Kagan.

New Twitter Home Page

July 29th, 2009

When I first signed up on Twitter, I personally didn’t like their home page by that time. Some of my friends didn’t like the Twitter home page before because it is really hard to understand at first.

After a few months of waiting, here it is now. A brand new Twitter home page that I think is better than their home page before. It is very blue and simple that you can easily understand what the site is all about or rather what you can do on the site. Twitter’s team somehow managed to bring their focus on their “Search” feature where you can see on their brand new home page the big search bar at the heart of the page along with the most popular topics at the very moment, for the past few days and for the entire week.

New Twitter Home Page

So if you haven’t seen that when you logged in today, just logout and give it a look. :) I bet you will all like it than before. :D