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Infographic: The Meteoric Rise Of Twitter
This is another interesting infographic, this time around twitter’s journey to over 100 million unique users with breakdowns on key events, reasons for growth in social and mobile and a nice breakdown of twitter users in the US. One of the stand out points, is that Twitter has an awareness of 87% while Facebook is just 88% – considering [...]
Continue reading...Canadian Tourism’s Live Twitter Murals
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Canadian Tourism has launched a new campaign aiming to grab interest from busy Americans in New York, Chicago and L.A in the hope to lure them up to Canada for a holiday. And to do this they’ve jumped on the twitter wagon with interesting digital storescapes or what they are calling live twitter murals, that show aggregated tweets and photos from [...]
Continue reading...Infographic: Twitter Statistics, Facts & Figures
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
This is the latest social infographic out from website-monitoring and this time it’s on twitter, with the statistics rounded up during the month of April this year. Some of the latest stats show a 55% female skew and primarily 18-34 age distribution at about 45% of all tweeps! Some of the more interesting stats show that 41% [...]
Continue reading...Live Twitter Artwork: Just Don’t Tell Ashton
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Students from the Berghs School of Communication in Sweeden have launched a social experiment that is perfectly themed to attract some serious attention! They are creating a live piece of artwork at Don’t Tell Ashton, a new website that holds the profile images of people who re-tweeted the campaign page in scale to their twitter following, [...]
Continue reading...Flame It Microsite: How To Train Your Dragon
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
This is quite a cool digital campaign by StruckAxiom called “Flame It” for the latest DreamWorks movie “How To Train Your Dragon”. It taps into everyones destructive urges and allows you to literally flame anything you can think of online… Check it out here. Friends Facebook pages, twitter accounts, blogs, news or shopping sites, anything! Start flaming and it [...]
Continue reading...Twitter: The Path To 10 Billion Tweets
Sunday, March 21, 2010
In March 2010, Twitter recorded it’s 10 Billionth tweet, which is a huge landmark for a company that really only found traction in 2009. To mark the ocassion, Mashable created this infographic to chart the path to 10 Billion Tweets and look at where twitter is now.
Continue reading...NBC: The Olympic Twitter Tracker
Sunday, February 28, 2010
If you haven’t seen this already, it’s a pretty cool little app that NBC launched as part of their Winter Olympic coverage for the 2010 Vancouver Games. The Tweet Tracker is made up of a picture grid that expands and contracts each sport depending on the current buzz being generated. You’ll also be able to dig in to see [...]
Continue reading...Presentation: Protocol Buffers at Twitter
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Kevin Weil the Analytics Lead at Twitter released a new presentation about how they are store and analyze of it’s 100 Billion tweets. The presentation is generally focused on different technical conditions but there are also some useful business requirements related to analysis and the storage of massive data as well.
Continue reading...Google Buzz: is this the bridge to Wave?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Google Wave was a pretty big step up from email – and maybe it was a bit too much of a step leap away from the email messaging we are all used to using for it to gain traction in the marketplace. What could be bridging that gap is Buzz, and it is on its [...]
Continue reading...SlideShare: McDonald?s Social Media Strategy
Sunday, November 29, 2009
McDonald’s hasn’t over played their hand in the social space so far, and that’s probably a good thing for most brands to consider when getting into social media. What I like about the McDonald’s approach so far, is that they are there listening, have become willing conversationalists and are activating engagement, BUT are not trying to be [...]
Continue reading...Live Art Interaction Via Twitter!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
What’s twitter good for? Ok, thousands of things, but at a top level, strip out the spam and you’re left with a whole lot of live action. So how do you capitalize on live action? Engage followers and collaborate to offer them something they can be apart of. That’s exactly what Johanna Basford is currently doing live on twitter. A [...]
Continue reading...Visualizing Twitter Statistics x100
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
This is a great way of looking at how people use twitter and how twitter is seen to the world. The Twitter Statistics Visualization by David at Information Is Beautiful shows the skews between men and women on twitter, the % of spammers, robots, loud mouths, content creators, quitters and more. Enjoy the great visual [...]
Continue reading...BMW / Need for Speed: Shift
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
EA Games has a great Twitter promotion running at the moment catering to car aficionados, and gamers alike for their new Need For Speed: Shift game. There are five missions that need to be completed over five days. Todays mission? Find a BMW on Google Maps Street View, take a screenshot and post it to [...]
Continue reading...Brizzly does Twitter better than Twitter
Friday, August 7, 2009
If there were awards for the cutest logo – Brizzly would win hands down. The little bear in the bird suit is one of the best mascots for a web application I’ve seen since the MailChimp. But Brizzly is more than just cute, Thing Labs have brought the powerful ideas and features that make web [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Nominated For a Nobel Peace Prize!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Ok ok. So twitter can create a buzz about anything at the moment, but a Nobel Peace Prize!? What The?! WebProNews is getting plenty of attention after posting this article and video. Is twitter hype just getting out of control at the moment or is this some kind of weird joke? Enjoy the video!
Continue reading...V Australia: 4320 Tweets, 3 Days In LA
Monday, July 6, 2009
Mark from Adverblog just posted up a great new campaign being launched by V Australia on Twitter called 4320:LA. Yes, Twitter, what else would you have expected?! 4320:LA is the number of minutes they are challenging you to tweet – one tweet per minute on their new 3 day LA holiday packages. All you have to [...]
Continue reading...TweetCraft: Twitter Hits The Big Time!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
How do you know when your business hits the Big Time? (ok, they already know that but…) Easy, when World Of Warcraft (the most wildly successful online game ever) integrates your app! That’s right, Twitter has just been integrated into WOW and although I’m not a fan of the game, I can see how the [...]
Continue reading...Vodafone #ukhols Map: Twitter/Google Mashup
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Vodafone in the UK has just launched a #ukhols map, a great little mashup of Twitter & Google maps where the twitter sphere can tweet to #ukhols followed by their age, sex and postcode with the city (most tweets look like this #ukhols 24 M RG6 Cairo) to have the Vodafone site plot their next [...]
Continue reading...Flutter: The New Twitter
Monday, April 6, 2009
If you like Twitter, you’ll love Flutter. This video will tell you everything you need to know!
Continue reading...Twouble With Twitters Viral Video
Monday, March 23, 2009
While I’m on virals today, here is a good one for all Twitter junkies out there. A great little play on Twitter from a TV series called SuperNews. Forgive me if it’s not exactly on topic for the blog, but none the less you’ll probably enjoy if you use, or hate using twitter! Enjoy. This [...]
Continue reading...Pepsico Zeigeist: Twitter Widget @ SXSW
Thursday, March 19, 2009
At SXSW, Pepsico (the major sponsor) created “Zeigeist”, a twitter widget that aggregates tweets & keywords, transforming them into visual groups based on activity like eating, partying, travelling, drinking, connecting .etc then streaming their tweets via a very slick interface to so that the entire event is summarised for anyone that couldn’t attend! Very cool app, it was [...]
Continue reading...Twitter considered as a search engine?
Friday, March 6, 2009
There is a great post over on TechCrunch about why Twitter should be considered a search engine. But it’s just micro blogging, i hear you say right? Who cares about the useless spam running through twitter on a daily basis? Well… it’s not… It’s possibly the most valuable information there is online, because of twitters character limit and [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Visualisation Of Superbowl Ad Activity
Monday, February 16, 2009
Now this is cool. A visualisation of the keywords being talked about on Twitter during the Superbowl has just blown me away, it’s great to see the power of such a medium taking shape with global brands, so thanks to the New York Times for creating such a cool app. I’ve got it set for “talked [...]
Continue reading...Dell Now Offering Exclusive Twitter Deals
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Over the Christmas period Dell was using twitter (@DellOutlet) to alert customers about great offers, it was so popular they made over $1million from twitter traffic alone. Seeing that value, Dell has tuned their twitter strategy to offer Exclusive Twitter Deals to their followers every week, but not only that, they are providing real-time feedback, information and customer [...]
Continue reading...Gaki Attack – Guerrilla Campaign For Nippon TV
Friday, January 30, 2009
Nippon TV has just launched an interesting guerrilla campaign (Japan’s most popular tv network). Nippon Tv has partnered with Hulu & Joost to create these mini comedy channels that run 24/7, named Gaki Attack, they lock four comedians in a gym and are randomly punished and tortured for 24 hours through a whole range of hilarious ninja attacks (in true [...]
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