Crowd by victoriapeckham.
Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Ever since I’m on Twitter I’ve tried to get as many people to participate spontaneously in writing my posts or rather compiling my lists. I always seek contributions for my “30 something” flagship posts. The appropriate term for these kind of participation is crowdsourcing.
Image: Happy Beaver by stevehdc.
Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Yesterday many people on Twitter cried out in outrage about a misled tweet from @vodafoneuk – in it some apparently tweeting under the influence employee made a badly spelled comment about the hygiene of homosexuals.
Then the person also threatened to hunt for beavers!
This is indeed outrageous! As you probably know beavers are an endangered species and have been extinct a few years ago in the UK. Hunting them just to vent your anger is the last thing to do.
To be honest: I hate all the Apple hype. I hated it on Digg and I hate it on Twitter as well. Twitter has been flooded with iPad tweets in such a manner that you can’t find the real news anymore.
The real news this week for us is that Twitter changes its recommended users list.
This week’s Twitter column comes a day late. I think it doesn’t matter when I post my weekly Twitter post. The important fact is that I do at all and the the quality of the post makes it worth reading. So from now on I won’t be that exact anymore. The weekly Twitter column will stay though. It might appear earlier or later in the week, depending on breaking events for instance.
This week I want to speak about Twitter arrests.
It seems Twitter is exempt from free speech and arrests for Twitter usage become commonplace.
I know this is a business blog and we write about Twitter topics relevant for businesses but this is an issue that should matter for all of us.
This week the Twitter Friday column expands as a major Twitter SEO topic is on our agenda. Last week Technology Review published an article titled “How Google ranks tweets“.
In the TR article leading Google engineer Amit Singhal explains ranking factors for tweets.
Some of the ranking criteria are quite clear and obvious while others remain fuzzy behind Google’s veil of secrecy. There is one big surprise: Google hates #hashtags, or at least some (probably you using too many) of them.
It seems Google treats #hashtags the way it dealt with the meta keyword tag in the past: Neither do they really count nor do they count in a positive way in case they do.
In other words: Using hashtags may hurt your tweet rankings. That’s not all of course.
Ford F 150, the biggest Twiter client yet. Image by selfhatingotaku.
Twitter Friday is alive and kicking! Welcome back in 2010! The column paused for two weeks in a row simply due to the holidays taking place both on a Friday. Many people didn’t tweet during the Holiday season anyways so it wasn’t that bad, was it?
Of course plenty of things happened anyways but I want to skip them and write about something that struck me as a very important novelty. Ford goes Twitter.
We’d like to do so much more during a day or the business hours but we can’t.
Why does the “Iranian Cyber Army” use the red star, a communist symbol from the soviet era?
It’s Twitter Friday again! Welcome back to my weekly column. Apparently Twitter or rather its DNS got hacked. DNS is that little thingy that assigns real Internet addresses (like Twitter.com) to those so called IP addresses or rather numbers websites hide behind. This is what we know. The rest of the story is quite questionable though.
To be honest I don’t believe the “Iranian Cyber Army” is real, like there is an organization of hackers behind it.
Also the footprints they’ve left neither look like real hackers nor like real Iranians. I’ll explain why.
In this week’s Twitter Friday column I want to dissect the news that Twitter traffic is dropping for a few months in a row. Is it true?
Claiming a Twitter profile name seems to be the new domain squatting, so I thought it would be interesting to see how many top brands have claimed what would be their first choice Twitter handle.
Image credit: Flickr
So for example, Sky would presumably like to have claimed twitter.com/sky – but missed out on this to another user.
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