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Twitter Case Study

August 25, 2008

One of my goals this summer was to get more involved with Twitter and see how companies are using it. While I was researching the post about how a Wine Retailer is Using Twitter to reach a whole new audience I came across Rae Hoffman’s post titled “An Actual “Non Big Brand” Twitter Case Study”

Rae’s case study is about a  a BlackBerry related website called BBGeeks . BBGeeks has had a Twitter account for around eight months now and has grown from zero to over 500 followers in that time. For a web site targeting a very niche market, this is pretty impressive.  Read more... (795 words, 1 image, estimated 3:11 mins reading time)

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A Twitter Site For Critics

August 12, 2008

Twitter uses are used top conveying their message in 140 characters  or less. Well now Blippr has taken the Twitter concept and applied it to reviews of book, games, music and movies.

No longer do you have to sift through lengthy reviews to find out what someone thought about the Dark Night move. Paring a review down to 160 characters and a rating really forces reviewers to get to the essential appeal or flaw of the movie being reviewed. For instance, do you really need to know anything more about The Dark Night than “Heath Ledger… Man, he was so different than Nicholson. Not cruel and funny, but disturbing and terrifying. A great movie, great story. Can’t miss it.”.  Read more... (206 words, 1 image, estimated 49 secs reading time)

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Getting My Arms Around Twitter

July 30, 2008

I admit it took me a long time to warm up to Twitter. I could not see why anyone was interested in what I was doing right now. I still struggle with the voyeuristic aspects of Twitter but a couple of new applications are helping me overcome my reluctance to using it.

For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about Twitter is a social network that lets you tell your friends what you are doing at any given time. It also lets you see what everyone else is up to. It’s a kind of worldwide bulletin board of tiny messages that form a huge mosaic of everyday activity.  Read more... (669 words, 1 image, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

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