Check out these interesting infographics based on Barracuda Networks recent study of Twitter. This study analyzed Twitter accounts with at least ten followers, who followed at least ten people, and has tweeted at least ten times. This pared down the users by 79%.
Full story and graphics at Next Generation Online.
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looks like twitter has peaked?
twitter announces @anywhere to give third-party access.
twitter to launch @anywhere, a tool that will allow third parties to tap into its functionality and content.
twitter plans to roll out a set of API frameworks enabling third-party sites to allow their users to log-in using their twitter accounts, pull information and content from twitter and add functionality that lets people tweet or share from other sites directly onto twitter. The functionality, that will be similar to Facebook Connect, isn’t yet ready for a full launch but participating sites will include a slew of big players including: Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Digg, Ebay, The New York Times, Yahoo, and YouTube.
Biz Stone, twitter co-founder, said, “Soon sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com.” Twitter was expected to unveil plans around its advertising model, but instead announced the @Anywhere tool at the South By South West festival in the U.S. yesterday. Last week it launched location-based functionality, which allows users to show the town or city they are tweeting from.
twitter is finally starting to unveil something that resembles a plan - something that has been missing for too long. Just look at all the improvements and changes Facebook has made in order to stay ahead of the pack.
Image of Twitter's new "Fail whale"
Twitter is currently down for scheduled maintenance.
We expect to be back within 30 minutes. Thanks for your patience.
via twitter.com
I just got this message today on Twitter instead of the usual twitter "Fail Whale" - this really makes me miss the Twitter Fail Whale :(
Facebook Uncool for 18-24s? All of this has happened before
via adweek.com
To steal a line from Battlestar Galactica: All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again:
A group, in this case college age kids, discover an online sanctuary just to find out that everyone they have ever been in contact with including their parents are on it. First it was MySpace and everyone moved to Facebook, a safe haven for college age kids that required a .edu email address to join. This meant no parents, no relatives, no spam, no junk.
Then Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook decides that he needs to monetize Facebook and rake in the ca$h. He opens it up to everyone and there was only a tiny initial wave of users that committed Facebook-icide including myself (I only came back 2 years later because as a marketer I couldn't miss out on this phenomenon). Then around this time last year, so November 2008, I started hearing stories that people's parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were now on Facebook and seeking them out - as if it wasn't already awkward enough dodging Aunt Beth at the annual Thanksgiving dinner, but now people had to do it online? That's where where many people are drawing the line.
Now Adweek throws out an article today about how Facebook is "getting" uncool for 18-24s (a.k.a. the college crowd) - to the surprise of many, but not people that have been following the pulse of this development.
Back to Battlestar Galactica: All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again.
So, now the (1 Billion Dollar) question is: What is next great thing that the kids are going to migrate to?
Twitter? I see twitter more as a compliment to Facebook and not a direct competitor. Sure there are people that only use twitter or Facebook, but they are such different beasts that they don't directly compete.
Leapfish? I doubt that they can fill the shoes of Facebook as Leapfish is an aggregator, but not a source like Facebook or Twitter.
The only thing that is for sure is that "All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again."
Young People Tweeting More and More - eMarketer
via emarketer.com
Status update services catch on with Gen Y
More evidence of Twitter uptake among young people comes from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to a September 2009 survey, 33% of online adults ages 18 to 29 use a status update service, a significant difference from the research firm’s previous poll on the subject.
This meant young adults were more likely to tweet than users ages 30 to 49, who had previously been considered the core group for Twitter.
AT&T doing Social Media? - Go check it out!
via att.com
Very interesting how AT&T is trying to embrace social media to it's fullest. Should be interesting to watch, to say the least.
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