This is complete speculation so bear with me. Very recently, Twitter changed its email alert messages from pithy text-only notices of new followers or direct messages to branded, graphical emails. Well, Twitter has always been in a conundrum: If they monetize the sparse web interface, they’ll alienate their very touchy early adopters and send people […]
Twitter for business Webinar video and slides
How To Use Twitter Effectively for Business and Advocacy View more presentations from Chris Abraham. Last week I announced a free Twitter Webinar titled, How to use Twitter effectively for business, advocacy and policy and wanted to share both a video recording of the Webinar as well as all of the slides that I presented, […]
Free ‘Twitter for Business’ Webinar on April 30
On April 30, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT, I will be offering a free webinar on how to Twitter for business, including lots of case studies and a whole bunch of useful information. Anamitra Bannerji is the featured speaker. Anamitra works on commercial applications of Twitter as part of the Twitter product management team. […]
Twitter failing from overwhelming success
I have been seeing lots of articles like Steve Rubel’s Twitter Is Peaking; Get Ready to Follow The Geeks Onward and Larry Green’s response post, Dear Twitter: Failure is not an option (for branding). Why I am so accepting of all of these Fail Whale “Twitter is over capacity” pages is because nobody could have […]
Oprah takes Twitter into the mainstream
Deep down I guess we all wish the start-ups whose services we like to use would stay as they are forever. Take for example Vimeo, a really great service with an awesome community that never quite made it into the mainstream. It is basically clear now that Twitter will not be one of those services. If the […]