Articles tagged Twitter

Twitter, an immensly popular social networking platform also known as a micro-blogging service, currently boasts hundreds of millions of users.

Advertisers are in search of ways to effectively monetise it, but it is proving difficult to use it for effective advertising.

The following articles are related to Twitter.

Uproar Over Journalists Suspended Twitter Account

With the increasing problem of cyber-bullying, which is said to have reached an epidemic level on social networking websites and internet forums, one could be forgiven for thinking that these websites suffer from a worrying degree of lawlessness.

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Latest Twitter Updates

Social search has been a hot topic over the last few years. With the amount and speed of content being propagated on these types of sites, being able to navigate effectively through such a breadth of potentially valuable data was valid interest.

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Yesterday’s Twitter Outage: Hackers or Bugs

Twitter was offline yesterday, with about four, tense, tweetless, hours passing before it was back up to full function.

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Twitter To Serve Promoted Tweets

According to recent news reports, Twitter announced yesterday that they will begin placing advertisements in users timelines, in a long anticipated attempt to effectively monetise the service.

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Twitter Trends South Africa

Ever popular, socially revolutionary, mind-numbingly boring, information overload. No matter what you think about it, Twitter has become a pervasive feature of the information-age landscape for good or ill.

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Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets A Day

On the official Twitter blog yesterday, the popular social media micro-blogging site Twitter finally released its own statistics. According to the post by a member of the Twitter analytics team, the site which allows users to post publicly readable status updates of up to 140 characters, is currently logging some 50 million “tweets” per day.

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Microsoft Bing Gets Twitter

According to a news report released today, Microsoft has gained the coveted right to index the hugely popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter.

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South Africa Tenth On Twitter

According to a recent report by Canadian research company Sysomos, South Africa has become the tenth largest twitter user in the world.

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Twitter In Search Engine Talks

According to a report by ChannelWeb, the hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter may have finally found a way to monetize the countless messages, (known as tweets) that are sent daily by it’s users.

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Twitter Tests List Feature

Twitter announced yesterday that they have started testing a new feature for the popular micro-blogging service. The new “List” feature will allow users to organise their tweets by assigning them to various sub-categories.

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Social Media Scams On The Rise

In a just released announcement by social media giant Facebook, the California-based company has warned its users to watch out for one of the old “419 scams” that has recently resurfaced on the social media network.

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Is Social Media Marketing Worth The Effort?

Everybody knows about social media, (or social networking) these days. It’s no longer the next big thing, it’s a big thing right now. The real question though, is whether there’s any real marketing value to be had from it.

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Social Networking Growth Predicted

According to a report released by the BMI-Techknowledge Group, a business-to-business commercial and industrial research group focusing on the high-tech industry, social networking in South Africa is set to increase by a factor of three over the next four years.

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Twitter To Go Commercial?

According to a blog post made late last week by Biz Stone, co-founder of the increasingly popular micro-blogging platform Twitter, which has around 45 million users, the company has has changed its terms of service in such a way that it now “leaves the door open” for advertisers.

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