Search results for: “twitter”
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Twitter for Mac – some alternatives
Twitter’s desktop client on the Mac has been pulled from the app store and won’t be supported any more. It is time to look for an alternative. What you should choose depends on how you use Twitter, I’ve tried to outline what I consider are the best native Mac apps for Twitter. The alternative that…
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Twitter bars intelligence agencies + more
Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service – WSJ – I don’t think that this will affect Twitter’s revenue that much. I also don’t think that Twitter bars intelligence agencies will restrict their access to information overall China white-box players leaving tablet market and pushing into new applications – focus instead on ‘two-in-one’ device, robots and…
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Twitter troubles
You can read elsewhere about Twitter troubles, I have linked to some of the best analyses I found out there at the bottom of this article. If you don’t have time to go through the the analyses around Twitter troubles, here’s the ‘CliffsNotes’ version: Management turnover. Three different heads of engineering in 18 months, five…
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A Twitter experiment on fake followers
In 2013, I worked with a number of companies and executives that has used services to inflate their Sina Weibo accounts standing with fake followers. (In case you haven’t heard about it, Sina Weibo is a Chinese micro-blogging service). Often this was seen as a cheap way of getting an ego-boosting metric on their account…
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Canada on Twitter
Canada on twitter will be an event that will have delighted my friend and former colleague Matthias Lüfkens. Matthias founded the Burson-Marsteller Twiplomacy project. Time spent at the World Economic Forum on social media meant that Twiplomacy has been a long time personal passion of his. The Twiplomacy looked at which countries have accounts…
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Pipes by Yahoo
I discovered something at the end of last year. The belatedly missed Yahoo Pipes was, in fact, officially called “Pipes by Yahoo.” I made that mistake, despite being well-versed in the brand guidelines, having spent a year working there with a copy consistently at my side. Now, why this journey down the memory superhighway? That’s…
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Pebble
It took me a little while to write this post on Pebble. Pebble was a start-up that looked to build a more civil microblogging platform than Twitter. Unfortunately it closed on November 1, 2023. It supported 280 character posts, replies and messages. The staff validated prominent users such as journalist accounts. The service had its…