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Mashable reported yesterday that Twitter’s self-serve ad platform has gone live. The interesting thing about this announcement for me is that it comes quite late in the day for Twitter. One has to ask the reason for that, and the possible answers are: They have raised so much money that they don’t care too [...] I have long been a user of the Topify service which provides email alerts to events on my Twitter account. My primary use case has been to quickly see who has started following me and to efficiently follow some of them back by simply replying to the Topify email. Unfortunately the service is being [...] You may have seen the news today that the US anti-trust regulator is making Twitter inquiries. I really hope the world’s favourite short messaging service is exonerated because to me this is crazy. I’m a believer in appropriate regulation and I think anti-trust laws have an important part to play in controlling company behaviour, [...] You have probably seen the news today that Twitter has acquired Tweetdeck for $40m, ending a month or two of wrangling between Twitter and Ubermedia over the business. As well as being an interesting saga in its own right and a good result for Tweetdeck the whole affair is a good illustration of the [...] There was a post on Techcrunch over the weekend titled The walled garden has won. Regular readers will know I’m a big proponent of open systems and hence I read this piece with interest. Regrettably I think the title is accurate, although I don’t think the news is all bad. Let me explain. [...] This infographic from GigaOM is interesting. As mentioned in the title Facebook and Twitter have a very similar demographic. I was surprised by this at first, but on reflection maybe it is only to be expected – user bases as large as Twitter or Facebook are probably unlikely to deviate much from overall internet [...] There are a couple of interesting threads on Quora where over the last few days people have been discussing tactics for launching a product at the SXSW conference in Austin. As many of you will know, this is a hot topic because SXSW played a pivotal role in the early growth of Twitter (2007) [...] I have a long standing bet with an old friend from university that 50 million people will Tweet in December this year and over the weekend he pointed me to articles on ComputerWorld and sociamediatoday saying that as little as 17% of Twitter users actually send Tweets and that Twitter seems to be positioning [...] I got up this morning to find the world going crazy about the new Twitter iPad application – see this glowing Engadget review and the Techcrunch titled Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website – the title gives a hint of where I’m going with this post. (Apologies for the fact this [...] I read two posts today that left me with the same thought – that the simple days of a free and open web are slowly coming to an end. In the world we are moving towards individual corporations will have a significant element of control over parts of the web and therefore significant influence [...] |
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