Tag Archives: Twitter
10 Reasons Why People Don’t Follow You On Twitter
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
17 Just because you have 500 friends on Facebook or MySpace doesn’t mean you will also have the same amount of friends (aka followers) on Twitter. Think again! You have got Twitter completely wrong if you think Twitter is for social networking with friends and family. Twitter’s mantra is Share, Engage, Repeat.
If you have got [...]
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Twitter Links Get Clicked More Than Other Social Media Sites
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
1Even 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.
0Twitter 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.
0 Last 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 [...]
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Facebook and Twitter, Similar But Not Same
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Zahid Lilani.
2Over 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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