Back in the earlier days of 3rd party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter the elegant, sexy, feature-rich HootSuite […]
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Some ‘Twitter definitions’ are sponsored
There has been so much conjecture as to how Twitter will start monetizing. Well, it looks like there have been a few baby steps in the form of “sponsored definitions” that cycle through right above the Home link on the navigation bar. It is very subtle and I didn’t notice it myself until today (Seth […]
Stars don’t need to follow-back on Twitter
Image by Getty Images via Daylife So many folks are scolding stars like @oprah and @barbarajwalters because they’re not following-back the thousands of fans who are following them. Here is a case in point from Lena Claxton and Alison Woo, Don’t Make Oprah’s Twitter Mistakes: Right now by only following 10 people, she’s using Twitter […]