In August, Twitter, the four-year-old micro-blogging service flew past MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking service in the world, according to new data from comScore Inc. Twitter recorded almost 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76% from August 2009, comScore said. During the same period of time, MySpace dropped 17% during the same period, to 95 million unique visitors in August. (more…)
A recent Denver Post article touches on a subject I've been grappling with for several years. It boggles my mind that people think an e-mail, text or tweet has tone. It's true. What we write and post in some fashion on the Internet, has a tone. Once we make peace with this concept it's important to consider this fact, every time we communicate with anyone. By now, I hope you've realized the Internet, and social media, is here and a force to be reckoned with. The article provides some good tips for better communication. (more…)
There are hundreds of desktop and mobile applications competing for just 22% of the Twitter market, as 78% of users use Twitter.com to read and send their tweets. The competition for your desktop has been fierce. Now competitors like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop 2 will have to fight harder to attract new users. (more…)
The new Twitter.com interface looks a lot like the Twitter iPad app, just optimized for the web. The iPad app allows Twitter users to browse tweets in a timeline with links, videos, profiles and other content opening up in new panes to the right of the timeline. The new Twitter.com two-pane interface brings this functionality to the internet. The new design contains mini profiles, 16 new media partnerships for viewing embedded photos and videos, and a details pane providing additional information around a specific tweet. (more…)
Twitter is rolling out a new web interface. Most people will be seeing a preview roll out over the next several weeks. It appears the plan is to integrate multimedia into the Twitter stream as part of a totally redesigned interface. (more…)
