5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business
**This series is supported by the Social Influence System and WE twendz™ pro, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. Customer service, recruiting, contests, giveaways and promotions — these are all standbys for businesses using Twitter as a medium to connect with customers and fans. Given that Twitter as a platform supports […]
Explore Space with Buzz Aldrin on Your iPhone
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s currently the one of the most popular apps in the Apple App Store’s Education category. “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” is divided into five sections: Space Buzz, […]
How Companies Should Approach the New Twitter Advertising Model
Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. By now, everyone has heard about Twitter’s move into the paid advertising world. This week’s announcement that companies will be allowed to pay to have their posts lead search results on the popular social […]
Analytic.ly Provides Real-Time and Historical Twitter Analysis
For brands, developers and curious users, PeopleBrowsr is rolling out an interesting new tool. Analytic.ly helps people and companies “visualize, study and measure” Twitter conversations happening all over the web through general and custom reports and graphs. Topics and trends are stored and indexed, so researchers (be they corporate or otherwise) can get data on […]
Tweets at 35,000 Feet: How Virgin America is Using Promoted Tweets
Promoted Tweets are now live. Yet, for most of us, there’s still a general curiosity about how this will work in the wild. What does this mean for the partner advertisers? Are our search results and Twitter streams going to be spammed with advertisements now? Will Twitter ever be the same? Of course, the answers […]
Foursquare’s Growth Not Slowing Down: 725,000 Users, 22 Million Checkins
Mobile social network Foursquare keeps on releasing new stats on its growth, and why shouldn’t it? The numbers are nothing short of impressive. Just 12 days ago, Foursquare grew by nearly 100,000 users in 10 days, taking its total number of users to somewhere north of 600,000. Now a new update from the company reveals […]
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Justin Bieber’s imperial reign over the Twitterverse remains uncontested for the fourth straight week, thanks to the release of his new album “My World 2.0″ and the recent arrest of his manager. Our friends at What The Trend have crunched the numbers for us, and provided a week-long measure of what’s been hot on Twitter. […]
FRIDAY POLL: How Did You Celebrate Twestival?
Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Weekly Poll! Yesterday, thousands of people in more than 175 cities got together to celebrate the second annual Twestival, an event that has (at the time of this posting) raised $311,696 for Concern Worldwide, an organization that works to provide an education to millions […]
“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]
The trailer for the most recent Michael Cera vehicle — Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – has hit the Internets hard, and apparently people are excited. Earlier today, MTV reported that director Edgar Wright (of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead fame) heralded the coming of the trailer with three cryptic tweets reading: “Wait. […]
“Baby Killer” Becomes Healthcare Vote’s “You Lie” [VIDEO]
On Sunday night, the House of Representatives passed a $875 billion healthcare bill with a vote of 219-212. While discussion of the news is currently dominating the social web, a specific moment from the proceedings is also getting attention – a member of the House yelling out “baby killer” as Rep. Bart Stupak was speaking. […]
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Justin Bieber remains an immutable force of Twitter trend power, taking the top slot again for the third week in a row. Tweeters also showed their love (and/or disdain) for a number of other pop singers, and celebrated a few holidays this past week. Thanks to our friends at What The Trend, we have yet […]
Happy Birthday Twitter!
Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon. Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and last summer it was announced […]
Tweet #RefreshMashable to Support New Location App to Change Your Community
Here in Austin, I just finished introducing SparkHelp, the project Mashable has decided to support for the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge. We’re competing against two other teams over the next few days to help get our idea $50,000 in funding, which will help make it a reality. The Project After lots of great submissions from […]
Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked [WARNING]
It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out “weight loss” product spam today. Specifically, users who have had their accounts hijacked are Tweeting the message “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites. Our source counts over 200 rogue tweets so far tonight. It’s not just new users […]