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Twitterrific Rocks the iPhone App Market with Dynamic RT Functionality

July 23, 2010 By 6 Comments
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As Twitter is growing in popularity each and every month, more people are looking to the mobile web for entertainment. Whether it be waiting online at the bank or supermarket, or even relaxing at a relatives house with some time to kill, mobile phones are making it easier for us to connect with the entire web. With iPhone sales launching through the roof, we can only see how mobile Twitter clients will become more and more useful. As Twitter has officially purchased Tweetie to be their … [Read more...]

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Twitter Media Launches with Resources for Tweet Ads

May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Announced early during April 2010, Twitter has planned to roll out Twitter Sponsored Ads. This means users can pay to have their tweets sent in as many Twitter streams as they are willing to pay for. It's an interesting business model and revenue stream for the network, but how will it stick? The news has been everywhere (all over Mashable) and has spread far and wide, throughout the web. I haven't heard of any companies utilizing the ads yet or what sort of CTR there is, but Twitter has … [Read more...]

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Twitter Releases Sleek, Clean Homepage Redesign

March 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Although this has been covered by many media blogs, Twitter has indeed released a new home page! I have to say, I'm a big fan of the new design and it definitely allows for a better user experience when first arriving at the site. Shifting the page design from a small centralized block to utilizng the entire page was a smart move in Twitter's part, which allows for a scrolling Ajax-styled news feed directly in the center of the page. Scrolling through top Twitter users latest tweets, this is … [Read more...]

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Interview with New Twitter app Taweet: The Future of Twitter

January 6, 2010 By 6 Comments
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As Twitter has blown through other social media sites, it's become one of the most trafficked websites of the present day. Everybody and their grandma is using Twitter, and there's no shortage of helpful applications and Twitter resources for them all! Ranging from Twitter wallpaper creators to free icons or avatars, the internet hosts them all. I recently ran into such an app at http://taweet.com/. It's a beautiful application, and it lets you share and store dates of future events through … [Read more...]

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Manage Your Businesses Internet Marketing with twtapps

June 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Twitter has skyrocketed into mainstream with seemingly no meaning behind it. The simple application allowing everyone in the world to share what they're doing, thinking, or feeling in 140 characters has grown into one of the most popular web 2.0 applications on the web, and it's no doubt there are many apps on the web to accompany it. Although not affiliate with Twitter in any way, twtapps is a neat website that features some of the coolest web 2.0 applications that help businesses market on … [Read more...]

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Kevin Rose’s Failed Microblogging Platform: Where Pownce went Wrong

June 5, 2009 By 1 Comment

When Pownce first launched in the summer of 2007, I thought it would revolutionize how I communicated and shared stuff with my friends! By the way Kevin Rose had hyped it, you could share any type of file (music, video, .zip archive), share notes, share photos, really anything you wanted to with your friends! This was an application that was desperately needed on the web, and to this day I still claim there needs to be something to fill the void. There were, however, many problems with Pownce … [Read more...]

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Flick.to.Twitt – Easily share your Flickr Photos on Twitter

May 21, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Twitter has become one of the largest web 2.0 applications on the web today, in comparison with Facebook, MySpace, and Digg. Along with this, Flickr has become a giant web app where users can share their photos. However, with the use of Flick.to.Twitt you are now able to post your Flickr photos right to your Twitter account! I have an interview with the site's founder Marco Almeida, in which we discussed the site's creation and also future goals for the site. … [Read more...]

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