Chris ThilkAugust 28th, 2009
A few days ago Facebook announced (via Mashable)it would allow, via a native application, users to decide if they wanted the updates they posted to Facebook also exported and published to their Twitter profiles. (8/31 Edit: Shanee pointed out this is only for Fan Pages and not personal profiles at this point. –CT) That’s kind [...]
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Chris ThilkAugust 12th, 2009
I’ve been playing around with the new features rolled out by Delicious last week. In short, the social bookmarking site now allows you to do a couple things: First, when you visit the site and look at the latest links shared by people there is now a “Related Tweets” feature that works in an interesting [...]
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Chris ThilkAugust 11th, 2009
One of the constant points of conversation (at least it should have been if you think about it for more than a few minutes) about URL shorteners is that you, the person who’s sharing that link on Twitter or your blog or wherever, are putting a lot of faith in that site/service continuing to exist. [...]
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Chris ThilkJune 25th, 2009
Considering the amount of tweeting, retweeting and replying to tweets the @VoceNation crew did at WordCamp SF earlier this month it’s interesting to read this analysis by social networking company Pathable of the amounts and different types of Twitter updates posted at or around the event. Most of the related content, according to Pathable, is [...]
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Shanee Ben-ZurJune 25th, 2009
Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land posted today about a topic that’s been tickling my brain the past few weeks: What’s the reason for the discrepancy between the referral traffic from Twitter as calculated by Google Analytics, and the click through data reported by tracking links. I always feel like Bi.tly is providing a [...]
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Chris ThilkJune 18th, 2009
Many people woke up this morning to find their RSS subscriber counts, as reported by FeedBurner, were markedly higher than they were yesterday. For some the numbers doubled but most, I’m willing to speculate, were less than that but still were larger than what they’d seen in previous day-to-day gains. After what seems like a [...]
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Chris ThilkMay 29th, 2009
If you ask anyone who’s keeping their eyes on developments online what the next big development is, odds are the conversation will sooner or later include the term “the real-time web.” If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s meant to encompass the perception that conversations on the web are happening even faster than search engine [...]
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Chris ThilkApril 23rd, 2009
If you think communicating on one online channel is enough, it’s probably not. Case in point: At least three times in the last two weeks or so the following sequence of events has happened: I update my “status” using Ping.fm, which pushes that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and more. I get responses to my [...]
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Chris ThilkApril 17th, 2009
In case you’ve been on vacation for the last couple days and are just now checking the news you might have missed while you were out, there are two big Twitter-related stories everyone has been buzzing about: Kelso has succeeded in beating CNN in the race to one million Twitter followers. This is important, but [...]
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