Tag Archives: twitter
Rail Fail
Just a short post this week. It’s almost second nature at this point, when we hear of a news story breaking, to run the nearest media outlet to get the latest updates. Indeed when Michael Jackson died in June the torrent of users who rushed online caused several big name websites, including Google, CNN and [...]
No, Teens Don’t Tweet but it doesn’t mean they’re not involved.
Neilsen Wire, the media and marketing information company, set the twitosphere alight this week when it announced that Twitter, despite is impressive growth, has failed to attract Teens. The Neilsen survey of 250,000 Internet users in the States showed that only 16% of under 25 year olds actively use the Twitter website; with the majority [...]
Is no News Good News on the Social Web?
The Social Web is changing the landscape of news reporting, so is it time for the News Media to go social? ON JANUARY 15th 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed on the Hudson River in New York City. Within seconds of the crash and with the plane sinking into the frozen river, Twitter users were [...]
Search isn’t hard to find
With Microsoft and Twitter launching new search engines later this year should Google, the worlds largest search engine, be worried? Probably…and they know it. Speaking at the Zeitgeist Europe 2009 Conference Google co-founder, Larry Page, acknowledged his company’s new competition “people really want to surf [in] real time and they [twitter] have done a really [...]