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  • Will Google Really Kill Twitter?

    Mark Evans
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    The blogosphere is abuzz about Google’s plans to integrate a “Twitter-Killer” into GMail – and there are already people such as Robert Scoble boldly suggesting it’s not going to happen. Twitter is the dominant micro-blogging service, having forced Pownce (remember them?) to go away while a score of such as StatusNet and Plurk quietly toil away in the background. Meanwhile, Google’s first stab at the market, Jaiku, was a dismal failure. That said, anyone who dismisses Google’s chances of posing a threat Twitter would be making a mistake. Here’s a…

  • TweetVolume: How Loud is the Conversation?

    Mark Evans
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:19 pm
    TweetVolume is a simple but effective service that measures how often keywords or phrases appear on Twitter. To use it, enter one to five keywords or phrases, click “OK GO”, and you’re done. Given the Super Bowl is happening this Sunday in Miami, here’s a search done for New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees, Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback Peyton Manning, the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. If the amount of activity on Twitter is any indication, you have to believe there’s an awful lot of people hoping that Brees and the Saints…

  • A Beautiful and Visual Way to Search Twitter

    Mark Evans
    29 Jan 2010 | 7:24 am
    There are lots of Twitter search engines (Twazzup, Scoopler, Topsy, et al) but for something different and beautiful, check out True Colors of Twitter. It’s a visual search engine that shows tweets as different colored-bubbles that move across the screen. To see the contents of a “bubble”, you click on it. True Colors of Twitter may not be the most efficient way to do searches on Twitter but it’s among the visually appealing.

  • 75M Twitter Users But Growth Slowing

    Mark Evans
    26 Jan 2010 | 7:06 pm
    First, the good news: there are now 75 million Twitters users. Now, the bad news: only 15 million are “active” users, and overall growth is slowing after peaking last July. These findings come from RJ Metrics, which based its findings after downloading “just under 2 million tweets from about 50,000 users”. Here are the report’s conclusions: * When you look at new account registrations, no one can deny that Twitter is still growing like a rocketship (that’s good). * However, upon closer inspection, the rate of new user signups has dropped meaningfully from its…

  • Tickery: Who’s Following Who in Common

    Mark Evans
    25 Jan 2010 | 4:00 am
    Tickery is another interesting tool to discover new people to follow. It works by having you submit two Twitter users, and then displays the people in common who they follow. By rolling over each avatar/photograph that’s display, you can see information about each person being followed, including their Twitter ID #, which I suspect shows when they signed up for Twitter. By signing in using your Twitter username/password information, you can quickly follow any of the people being displayed. Tickery would be a lot more useful if it includes bio information about each person in addition to…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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