Twittad is a new service that, as described on their website “gives Twitter users and advertisers the opportunity to meet for product placement & website promotion on a Twitter user profile.” Sounds warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? Then you go to the “How Twittad Works” page and the first thing you read is “Post Twitter […]
Survey Says…25% of Twitterers are Old and White
Ok, not an actual survey–my own bootleg analysis based on cross-referencing my favorite book of the moment, Stuff White People Like, and this article in Time magazine about Gen-X being aTwitter. According to the author of the Time article, Bill Tancer (author of Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters), Twitter’s largest age […]
A Vote for Plurk
The other day I blogged about Plurk‘s eminent rise as Twitter continues to disappoint with its constant “over capacity” messages and general unreliability. This morning I read this post that sings Plurk’s praises. I must be slow or something because Plurk just doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I’m just not a visual person–I swear […]
When the Whale Fails Will Plurk Prevail?
A few months ago I didn’t know what Twitter was; or, more specifically, I knew what it was but couldn’t imagine what purpose it could possibly serve. Now some months and who knows how many posts later I–and the rest of the world it seems–am hooked. First there were a trickle of blog posts about […]
I Need a Second Firstlife
The other day, in a moment of frustration about the increasing amount of time it’s taking to maintain my “secondlife,” I twittered (I refuse to say “tweeted”): “I need a second first life to keep up with my second life.” If anyone actually followed me on Twitter I’m sure I would have gotten a lot […]
Twitter–Take 5
Actually, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve blogged about Twitter recently; suffice it to say that I’m sure it’s enough to bore you. However, today’s Twitter blog posts–as usual, dumped in my inbox via some marketing newsletter or another–actually had some relevance to the business world. I can’t say I personally see […]
If People Could Hear the Twitter About Twitter, We’d All Be Deaf
Have you gone to the movies lately? I am obsessed with going to movies and go pretty much once a week, if not more often. Anyway, if you go as often as I do you’ve probably been subjected to many different versions of the “Don’t talk during the movie!” message. How about the one where […]