7 ways Twitter shifts the social media paradigm. Facebook is about talking to people you know. Twitter is about talking to people you don’t know but would like to meet. Twitter is a fast moving social network, far faster than Facebook or MySpace. More like SMS on steroids. Combine speed with the power of talking people you barely know, and your network can suddenly extend to a much wider area than you would normally be operating in.
Flight of the Conchords – Brand engagement via social media
Having just come back from a delightful holiday in NYC, I was very happy to see Flight of the Conchords is hugely popular in NY. Brett and Jermaine made the special collectors cover of TimeOut New York, and the second series was being advertisesd on the subway. Part of building audience engagement with the series, […]
Twitter 101: beginners guide to Twitter
I’ve had a few people ask me this week on how to get into Twitter and where to start. It suggests that Twitter is hitting a tipping point similar to when Facebook went mainstream, and people are hearing about it from their friends and wanting to jump in. So I am putting my noobie hat […]
Mash-ups – visualising data
Twitter is such a cute concept – tell everyone what you are doing in 140 characters. It’s classified on Wikipedia as a micro-blogging and social networking service, and I was fascinated to read that it was an internal R&D experiment from a San Francisco startup. You can sign up, micro blog & follow people on […]