Archive for February, 2008

Social Media meets the Oscars- Using Twitter to enhance special events »

Twitter is now being used as a method to discuss special events as they are happening. During this years Oscar broadcast twitter is being used to discuss and evaluate the oscars among thousands of twitter users
By including the phrase “#aa08″ in your tweets or twitter messages a mashup is created with twitter users commenting on [...]

How to describe Twitter and why do you Twitter? »

What is twitter? What is twittering? why do people do this and what type of person is most likely to twitter. Every time I’ve tried to describe twittering and tried to show examples of twitter I’ve gotten blank responses and been labeled as a nut. I have also made the wrong assumption of thinking just [...]

Super Tuesday mashup- innovative use of social media »

Google teamed up with Twitter and Twittervision to offer a unique mashup for Super Tuesday. Tweets related to Super Tuesday were overlayed on a map showing the tweet, the user and their location along with other election related data including videos and actual voting results
This was an amazing use of social media and what I [...]

Tweeterboard- Conversation Analytics for Twitter »

A new twist on analytics for Twitter- Conversation Analytics.
Instead of measuring visitors to your site, average time spent and other statistics Tweeterboard measures your conversations with other Twitter users and links you provide. These items provide an overall score for your tweets with other users and stack ranks you against others in the twitterverse. This [...]