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Social Networking

10 Twitter Users Share Why They Use Twitter

Nov. 20, 2009

As a follow-up to my December 2008 blog post describing Twitter in 14 ways, and countless articles since, I feel there is no better time than the present to revisit the question why people use the social media tool.
Why do you have a Twitter account? I realize this may be self-serving, but consider me curious. [...]

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Do You Care That @BarackObama Doesn’t Tweet?

Nov. 16, 2009

The blogosphere is abuzz in the wake of President Barack Obama’s statement in Shanghai last night that he doesn’t use Twitter, nor has ever typed a tweet. MG Siegler at TechCrunch reacts and opines:
This is interesting considering the Internet, and social media in particular, was considered a large part of his ascension to the Presidency. [...]

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12 Million People Tweet 27.3 Million Times

Nov. 16, 2009

…every day.
Think about that for a moment. Brian Solis indicates this is comparable to the number of Yahoo instant message status updates sent every month, with the caveat Yahoo has five times more users than Twitter.

Swedish research firm Pingdom tracked every Twitter message sent from October 21 to November 11 and published their findings that [...]

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LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time

Nov. 13, 2009

Amber Naslund researched social media job vacancies and, among her findings, wrote:
In my research, I saw several job descriptions (most, frankly) that focused heavily on how social media benefited or could impact the company and their aims to be better known. They were largely focused on tactics and tools, and few actually referenced anything from [...]

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Will You Miss My Facebook Friendship?

Nov. 12, 2009

UPDATE: After reading the following, I’ve edited the very bottom.
Two hours after posting a status update on my Facebook wall and reading the replies from people I know very well and others I hardly know at all, I’ve decided to walk the talk. I’m about to sever over 50% of my connections.
I wrote:
Thinking about overhauling [...]

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Teachers Beware: Facebook May Cause Firing

Nov. 11, 2009

A former Georgia high school teacher wrote obscene language on her Facebook wall and uploaded racy photos, according to school officials who asked for her resignation in August 2009. A legal case is pending, and this could be yet another precedent in how and if school teachers should use Facebook.
The more I read the uproarious [...]

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Cautions on the Chamber of Fun

Nov. 10, 2009

Among the echoes of pundits extolling the virtues of synchronizing your LinkedIn and Twitter status updates, PCWorld includes a noteworthy clause in the second paragraph:
Twitter integration with LinkedIn makes sense, but don’t forget these two services are very different from each other. Twitter is a very casual and fun network with its short burst messages, [...]

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