@StephenFry, UK TV broadcaster and now unofficial poster child/ marketing marvel for Twitter, has passed over 100,000 followers on the service today. Only a week ago, we joked that Stephen Fry’s appearance at the London Apple Store might cause a riot, because he had 65,000 users at that point. He’s gained over 35,000 followers in … Continue reading Twitter: StephenFry Passes 100,000 Followers
Another day, another use of Twitter. Today it’s being used to report the levels of snow falls around the UK. All very useful individually, but the power of a mass of people reporting this information is when it’s brought together.
You can’t get much more mainstream than the mid-morning ITV programme This Morning. Today the show was opened by long-time TV presenter, Philip Schofield, declaring that he’s on Twitter as @Schofe.
Funny to see The Daily Mail run a piece on how ‘celebrities’ are signing up on Twitter entitled, “How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives.” They deride the Tweets of the ‘stars’ as casting “a fascinating light on just how mundane, not to say downright dull, … Continue reading Twittering ‘celebs’ Hit Daily Mail Where It Hurts – Sales
A couple of new Twitter converts came to our attention last night, despite what Nick Curtis thinks of it. Oasis, who are on a tour in the US at the moment, jumped on to Twitter a couple of days ago with their @OasisOfficial account. They haven’t exactly gone mad on it, making only two posts, … Continue reading Oasis Joins The Growing Band Of Twitter Fans
Nick Curtis has written a poorly-researched piece in the Evening Standard that attempts to take a chunk out of Twitter, while asking if ‘Twitter is the new Facebook.’ Why poorly-researched? Well, he starts the piece saying that Tweets are 160 characters long – and as anyone who has ever looked at the sevice will know, … Continue reading Twitter Misunderstood In The Evening Standard
If you’re looking to expand your network of Twitter friends, but are finding that it’s taking more time that you thought it would, or aren’t able to find that time, Twollow could be a solutions for you.
We know that Twitter gets under people’s skin, leading some of them to tweet their little sock off across many subjects from their view of emerging new business idea, through their inner most thoughts, to their love of sandwiches. Some people even get their
Only yesterday we were talking about how creative people embrace new technology and use them to stimulate us with positive ideas (although some might not approve of the results) … well, there’s two other groups of people who also exploit technology, beyond the ‘normal’ user. They are pornographers and spammers – both driven by money.
As with all new forms of communiation, after a while of them being about, some clever creative types comes up with an idea that uses the technology, allowing them to flex their creative muscles. One of the oft-cited example is Lonely Girl on YouTube which proported to be a 15 year old girl stuck in … Continue reading Twitter: A Creative Tool?