How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.
Excellent article on how companies are using Twitter. I wonder if the Zappos CEO read this article and that's why he's now on Twitter!
Also, I think I now want the title Community Evangelist. That's a job title the certainly didn't exist 20 years ago!
Joi Ito - an investor in Twitter - claimed that Japan usage "was nearly 30% of Twitter earlier on", but had dropped to "about 13% as the US user base has grown."
The problem is that no one wants to move to a new site unless their entire network of friends moves too. This means unless there is a mass migration, a majority of the people (though they are definitely testing it) won't stay with the service in the long term.
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Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection, and, in typical Twitter fashion, their algorithm sent the service haywire, leading to yet another sighting of the Fail Whale while the issue was resolved. Meanwhile, Twitterers everywhere were in an uproar over their lost follower counts.
"Une heure avant les grands médias, l'annonce du tremblement de terre a été faite sur le réseau de mini-blogs Twitter, notamment par l'internaute dtan"