Want to find the most influential and relevant Twitter users on the topic of baking? iPhone apps? The oil spill? The Twitter search startup Topsy has built a neat way to sort Twitter users to surface experts who tweet actively and influentially on any topic. Read more »
Today Bill Gross’ TweetUp announced the acquisition of Twidroyd (a popular Twitter client for Android) and popurls (a news aggregator), both created by a couple of Austrian developers. The acquisition again brings the company into competition with Twitter, which has its own Android Twitter client. Read more »
In advance of his keynote at the Ad Age conference on Tuesday (not to mention Twitter’s own Chirp conference on Wednesday), COO Dick Costolo shared details of the company’s new ad platform, Promoted Tweets, with a couple of news outlets. Read more »
Of all the times to launch into the Twitter ecosystem — with developers quaking from last week’s revelation that Twitter would compete with them head-on, and Twitter expected to launch a monetization platform this week — Bill Gross is announcing his new company TweetUp. Read more »
I like Twitter, and I embrace it for both personal and private use. Until recently, though, I’ve been hesitant to take the next logical step and attend a tweetup, despite their popularity here in Toronto. (A tweetup is a gathering of Twitter users, and is something […] Read more »
We’ve talked a lot about managing a social network strategy, maintaining a work-life balance, and living in a blur of social media. The fact is though, that with the sheer number of services available to us, and our ability to be connected to them virtually everywhere, […] Read more »
Hugo Ortega is my kind of guy. When he first gave a tease about the OQO Model 02 he has received he made the bold statement that he’s going to use it as his primary computer for a few months. I quickly set him straight that […] Read more »