Twitter

Worthwhile reading for Monday:
Here Comes Twitter Spam and How to Fight It:
A spam-less Twitter feed might just be too good to be true. Spam is becoming an increasing problem on Twitter and something has to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spammers are using Twitter as a tool by replying to your [...]

I came across Tweetzi in a press release today, it’s a neat little search. It’s not that much different than regular Twitter search, there are a few things that make it useful though. For one there’s a “play” button you can hit that will automatically update a certain keyword.
For example, I searched “pizza” :

You can [...]

Something I’ve been saying for awhile, companies know that social media is important but are still having a disconnect that they need to invest money into it. From Advertising Age:
Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV:

Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Tells Marketers They Should Not Buy [...]

Looks like there’s some rumblings about Google buying Twitter. I’ve been hearing about this on my Twitter account for a few days now:
From: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/rumors-of-google-talks-for-twitter-persist/

It seems that rumors that Google is in talks to buy Twitter just won’t go away.
Chatter that the search giant and the microblogging start-up were holding deal talks resurfaced last week, when [...]

Great article in USA Today about retail using Twitter for marketing. I actually recently started a Twitter campaign for a client of mine: TwentyThirtyForty.net although the focus was not to sell clothing but to get more exposure for their fashion blog. And so far it’s been a pretty decent success, it got them some notice [...]

See full article: www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/03/23/daily24.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Great article over at www.web20portals.com on finding more followers and people to follow:
http://www.web20portals.com/web-20-news/14-twitter-directories-to-find-new-friends
14 Twitter directories to find new friends
Digg.com founder Kevin Rose is at it again with a Twitter directory called WeFollow. And although it’s capturing much of the limelight right now, it’s not the only service of its kind. In fact, there are [...]

Wow… again another good post at mashable. Twitter is growing by a staggering 1300+ Percent, wow… We hardcore social media geeks have very little time before it’s destroyed by the masses

Twitter Now Growing at a Staggering 1,382 Percent

March 16th, 2009 | by Adam Ostrow1 Comment