TAG: twitter
Twitter Prepping its Mobile Ad Units?
"AdSense for SMS, essentially. Imagine being able to add 15-25 extra characters onto every single post where someone mentions they are thirsty, or the word "sex" pops up."
Tags: twitter mobile advertising
"When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates."
Tags: twitter
That's What She Twittered T-Shirt
"In the old days, people had to guess what their friends were doing every 5 minutes. How'd we ever get by?"
"I’ve found it an odd phenomenon to feel relationships strengthening by simply reading status updates, constrained to 140 characters no less, over a period of time."
Tags: twitter community culture socialnetworking
"Discover new people on your Twitter block by navigating through this animated three dimensional visualization of who follows whom."
Tags: twitter visualization design
Deal Note: Twitter's Nonexistent Business Model (Or, How to Invest in Media)
"Rather, next-gen investors are better off understanding why and how value creation and value capture will shift over the next 2-5 years - and then invest in plays which can dominate those shifts."
Tags: business media2.0 startups money twitter
How social networks work: the puzzle of exhaust data
"This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. Phatic communications doesn't get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done."
Tags: community data facebook twitter socialnetworking
twittering for busy execs
Enter a few words or phrases and see how often they appear on twitter.
Tags: twitter statistics trend
"So as our cities grow more dense, our social relationships are moving into Twitter time. Bettencourt and his coauthors would claim that this is neither good nor bad -- it's simply the inevitable outcome of urban growth."
Tags: culture blogs twitter mobile time trend
temporary retreat from randomness
Russell Davies on Twitter: "If you've been watching the blogosphere recently you'll have noticed that everyone's all aflutter about something called Twitter."
Tags: mobile marketing twitter