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Twitter’s great user friendly additions

February 10, 2010 Leave a comment

The Twitter saga has cottoned on to a new bug, Twitter apps like Tweetdeck trying to outdo Twitter in user friendly innovation. Did we crow about the lists to you? Just the tweets you want to track, then the brilliant search feature which looks great too towards the end of 2009 and now hover cards..yes simple tweet profile info on each face/image you see and on every mentioned twitter id, maybe later even each link? But great catch-up work from Twitter..after all it is a graphically leaning world and it is very few who are good with creating good looks. ( Even Facebook gets boring with the blue lines all the time, at least they keep trying to change the UI every week, lol!

And the add on from Tweetdeck and details of the Postrank invention next week..as also Hoot and Twittercounter and those you paid for that amazing looking functionality…next week, because the lid is coming off Twitter’s own production right now..google buzz is still not couting as competition, maybe never will..most probably!

BTW, a great conference is on if you have a Twitter app idea. Anyone can get a Twitter app idea, I’m making a virtual stock exchange on Twitter for celebs and sports men, it’s an idea..The conference series is to be titled Chirp!

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TweetBeep – Reputation Management Twitters | Jesse

July 23, 2009 1 Comment

If your job has you tasked with monitoring your company’s online presence, you’re probably dealing with Twitter in some way. Running occasional manual searches for your company’s name is one way to go, but a better way would be to sign up with a service like TweetBeep.

TweetBeep is a free service that will email you as frequently as once per hour with any Twitter mentions of the search terms of your choice. The service is ad-supported, but if you find that you need it, TweetBeep also offers a premium option for $20US/month that allows you to receive updates as frequently as every 15 minutes, up to 200 different alert searches, and no advertising.

While TweetBeep allows you to set a number of criteria for your alerts, one of the most interesting is the ability to set an “Attitude” criteria. You can choose from three:

Positive attitude

Negative attitude

Asking a question

This appears to be a fantastic way to stay on top of how people are perceiving your company or brand, and gives you the ability to very quickly react to your customers or users. It can also be useful for heavy Twitter users to ensure they don’t miss any mentions. I should note that as of the time of this writing I had some difficulty with the email confirmation process – it took multiple requests and over an hour before my email confirmation arrived in my inbox.

[via Stay N' Alive]

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Facebook vs Twitter series 12/800: Twitter is down from FB hunting?

July 18, 2009 1 Comment

Sitting inside a conference room at Twitter, BlackBerry in hand, Kevin Thau is all business.In his first interview since taking charge of the San Francisco technology companys mobile business development a month ago, Thau is confident that cellphones will play a crucial role in helping the messaging service make money.

The four-year-old company, which has raised more than $35 million from Benchmark Capital, Spark Capital and others, offers its service free of charge, and hasn’t yet figured out how to generate revenues.

Thau, 36, says thats about to change. He says the number of text messages passing through Twitters platform has grown 1,000% in the last year. Add to that the fact that users are texting more substantive observations and opinions in real time, and the company has a valuable information database it can sell to businesses.

Thau says Twitter is developing a range of analytics and metrics products and services built around the information contained in “tweets,” the e-mail and text messages that pass through its platform. “We can measure the tweets,” he says. “Were trying to figure out what are the appropriate metrics around engagement and how to convey those.”

Thau, however, didnt say when Twitter plans to sell these services or how much it will charge for them.

Its an interesting business model, but can Twitter survive selling analytics and other services? “When it comes to enterprises, absolutely,” says Jeremiah Owyang, a social computing analyst with Forrester Research ($FORR ) . “I just got off a call with a client thats asking about how to engage on Twitter. There’s definitely interest.”

via ‘Forbes’

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Twitters Analytical Business Plan – Forbes.com

July 17, 2009 1 Comment

Thau, however, didnt say when Twitter plans to sell these services or how much it will charge for them.

via ‘Forbes’

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Facebook vs. Twitter series 7/800: Who’s the monkey?

July 3, 2009 1 Comment

And the last one ( twitterone.com is catching up with my Financial research/story site at http://advantages.us) for my growing readership. The extract is significant since I was not on the invited Facebook press list! (because, I’m not press, I am a big Management Consultant with important things to do )

David Coursey (PC World) wrote: (so did Mashable and a host of other people already)

In a move that may actually pass without a huge uproar, Facebook has begun testing new privacy options that will make the service pretty much just likeTwitter, but only if you want it to be. Or so they say.

If these changes pass without a big user protest it would mark something of a return to normalcy for the service, which in the recent past has become globally-recognized for its ability to tiff users at seemingly every turn.

Once the changes–now in beta and not yet final–are complete, users will be able to decide who can see their Facebook posts on a post-by-post basis. The sounds like a chore, and may be if not implemented properly, but it also makes Facebook potentially much more flexible and useful than Twitter.

With the enhanced privacy controls, described by Facebook execs here and here, users will be able to select quite specifically–from everyone on the planet down to a single friend–who sees which posts.

Twitter makes no such allowances. Once you’ve accepted a follower, they see everything you Tweet. That aspect is part of what makes Twitter more like a news or announcements service and less a way to share information with only your close friends. That, and the 140-character message limitation, which Facebook lacks.

The new Facebook controls, as I understand them, would allow me to post links to blog posts like this one for everyone to see, while items of interest only to my ham radio friends would be visible only to a group of people that I’ve specifically selected.

Create enough groups and you could make Facebook publishing a pretty granular thing, while still maintaining a public face by posting to everyone. This could become complex, but only if you want to add lots of groups and sometimes forget to select the proper setting before sharing.

Reading Facebook’s description of the planned changes, which include getting rid of the oh-so-useless regional networks, I can’t find anything that makes the hair on the back of my neck rise. That is an unusual experience with Facebook lately, so I’ll have to go back and reread a few times.

Still, with the addition of friendly URLs (I am www.facebook.com/coursey), and the forthcoming privacy changes, Facebook may become a better Twitter than Twitter as well as a better Facebook than Facebook is today.

If you want to read more about friendfeed, read @jesse

via Facebook Twivacy(Mashable) and more that is a-Twitter

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