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A 2010 study reveals Twitter's new direction.

Many wrong reasons and preconceptions still exist when it come to increase spending on social media.

Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

This is a great article about twitter. And I really like the idea that it is a LOT about what we can DO with twitter data that makes it so compelling (all those great apps out there). "Websites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing number of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it's just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit. Put those three elements together - social networks, live searching and link-sharing - and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching."

Twittering at church

Create a feed of your own tweets, those you follow, and those following you. Import the OPML file into Google Reader.

140 characters are all you get on Twitter. What if the literary greats had used it? Here, the Life staff re-imagines the classics as tweets.