Comments on: Oprah Is Keeping Twitter Hot http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Predictions: The Fabulous 5 for 2010 – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167780 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:28:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167780 [...] for Ev Williams & Co.! The San Francisco-based company became the media darling (for proof, look no further than Oprah), which in turn helped grow the micromessaging service’s user base to over 50 million [...]

]]> By: Do Teens Really Not Tweet? http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167779 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:55:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167779 [...] | Friday, August 14, 2009 | 10:55 AM PT | 0 comments Though Twitter is used by celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher, a recent analysis by Nielsen concluded it hasn’t yet caught on with the [...]

]]> By: Despite Twitter, Oprah To Reaffirm Her Skype Love http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167778 Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167778 [...] Malik | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 10:43 PM PT | 0 comments Twitter, might be Oprah’s new tech love, but it goes without saying she loves Skype, the internet calling service that makes [...]

]]> By: Yes, Twitter Hashtags Are Useful | CandisLynn http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167777 Thu, 07 May 2009 09:03:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167777 [...] Oprah Is Keeping Twitter Hot (gigaom.com) Share and Enjoy: [...]

]]> By: Twitter’s Tipping Point http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167776 Mon, 04 May 2009 03:01:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167776 [...] realized that Twitter perhaps is one of the most commonly used words in the media today. Everyone from Oprah to blathering potato-heads on cable television channels are touting their Twitter accounts, and [...]

]]> By: Jan Simmonds http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167775 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:22:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167775 It is worth watching Andrew Keen’s talk to Google in ’07 here! (http://tinyurl.com/24zzgg) Much of what he says is increasingly relevant today as Newspapers are imploding and more is likely to follow. I also wrote my own opinion of the ramifications of this engagement of Twitter by celebrities entitled “Twitter Breaks Down the Wall Between Star and Fans – What a nightmare?” here – http://tinyurl.com/d7e58e

]]> By: Ken Godskind http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167774 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:55:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167774 Oops. Meant Sunday, April 19th not Saturday in my last post.
Sorry for any confusion.

Ken Godskind
Chief Strategy Officer
AlertSite

http://www.alertsite.com

]]> By: Ken Godskind http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167773 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:49:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167773 Om,

Thanks a million for covering this.

I didn’t see any further issues after we discussed this @ 6:30P EST on Friday.
There was some performance issues on Saturday, April 20 that were not seen during
the rest of April’s Saturday’s so far.

Best regards,

Ken Godskind
Chief Strategy Office
AlertSite

http://www.alertsite.com

]]> By: RYM http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167772 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:33:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167772 This is ridiculous. Twitter is becoming more of a racing ground for celebrities than a social medium.

]]> By: Khurram http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167771 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:27:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167771 Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life. Check me out!!

http://twitter.com/spryka

]]> By: Cindy http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167770 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:56:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167770 Cathy and Freight, thanks for the info. As I said I’m still a newbie and not sure how everything works. I have sent messages with the @ and a persons name, so I guess they just didn’t bother responding.

It’s a fun site nonetheless. Again, ty for the learning lessons!

]]> By: @CathyWebSavvyPR http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167769 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:02:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167769 Actually, that is not totally correct. Yes, in order to see most of your general comments, someone has to be following you, however, if you send an @reply message to someone’s @username, it is seen by both your followers and is sent to the person’s @username or @allmentions tab on the right. They may or may not see it right then, live if they are online or check their phone, but most folks read they’re mentions of their @username. If they reply to you, that reply is seem by all of their followers too.

That is a great way to find and get more folks to follow. Interact with someone who shares your interests and some of their followers might follow you too. If I follow you, and I follow Shaq and you send a tweet to @The_Real_Shaq or reply to him, both he and I have the potential to see it, but I might miss it, as it is not directed to me, if I am not online at the time, or don’t check out your messages from that afternoon, (unless you put my@username in it too).

Another way conversations get started is when someone retweets something you said, or you read an RT, then engae that person about the subject.

In reality, most normal people on Twitter do follow you back, and people do talk with each other, quite a bit. It’s just that most Celebrities don’t, some like Shaq do. Most of the time it’s not like high school, most folks are adults, and play nicely in the pool as it were.

People follow each other for many reasons – you have something in common, they find something you said interesting or funny or cool or unique, they like your username, they sent out a link to information they find valuable, they followed you because someone they like or respect follows or interacted with you.

The celebs may be fun, but most of the real action on Twitter is with the regular old peeps.

]]> By: Oprah is Keeping Twitter Hot gigaom.com - Twitoaster http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167768 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:05:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167768 [...] hours ago Oprah is Keeping Twitter Hot http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-ke... [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-04-17 « Becky McMichael’s PR Balancing Act http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167767 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:57:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167767 [...] Oprah Is Keeping Twitter Hot (tags: twitter) [...]

]]> By: Freight Forum http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167766 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:22:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167766 Hi Cindy,

Actually when you make an update it will be visible to everyone, click on the “Everyone” link inside twitter, everyones updates will be fed into there, from there they could be searched up using Twitters search. Happy tweeting.

]]> By: Twitter, Oprah and the Influx of the Soccer Mom Clan » Stupid Sucks! http://gigaom.com/2009/04/17/oprah-is-keeping-twitter-hot/#comment-167765 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:02:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46327#comment-167765 [...] I read this article and I’m thinking WTF Twitter? It talks about the influx of new Twitter users due to Oprah [...]

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