Tag Archives: Twitter
Twitter Links Get Clicked More Than Other Social Media Sites
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
View CommentsEven though some short URL service providers are shutting down, most are surviving because of only one reason, Twitter. Go and take a look at your Twitter stream, most people you are following are sharing links with you embedded in these short URLs. Because there is not much you can do within a Tweet, links [...]
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Twitter Settling for Status-Quo
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
View CommentsTwitter recently announced that it is considering displaying advertisements on profiles as a source of ad revenue. Even though I believe there is really no money in displaying ads and Twitter should try other revenue models, I still think they can at least pay their office rent. According to an article published in Montreal Gazette [...]
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Facebook Addiction Will Get You Busted
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
View CommentsLast week a burglar who stopped to update his Facebook status while burglarizing a house was caught because he didn’t remember to logout. He is now behind bars but there is a lesson to be learned here. This story re-enforces my belief that increasingly we are getting addicted to social media. Besides the fact that [...]
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Facebook and Twitter, Similar But Not Same
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
View CommentsOver the weekend a news story caught my eye that dealt with Facebook increasing working memory and thus intelligence. In the same news story, the researcher also pointed out that Twitter is bad because it is information overload. Dr. Alloway, a Psychologist who conducted the research at University of Stirling in Scotland concluded that on [...]
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Tweeting Through Tough Times
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
View CommentsAnother example of Twitter making life easier for entrepreneurs and small business owners is the article “Entrepreneurs ‘Tweet’ Their Way Through Crises” by Sarah Needleman in Wall Street Journal. Most business owners have realized that instead of using Twitter as a PR tool, it is better to use it as a customer service tool because [...]
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