Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Twitter Debuts New Home Page With Search Box

July 28, 2009

Twitter has modified its home page to include a Twitter search box for web users not already logged into their Twitter account.

New Twitter Home Page

New Twitter Home Page

Twitter search options are prominently featured and include search results by the minute, day and week.

This move was probably necessary on Twitter’s part to generate renewed interest in its service which a handful of people – myself included – believe has already peaked.

If Twitter has any one core differentiator for potential non tech users, its would be Twitter’s real time search.

It remains to be seen whether anyone other than tech savvy news hounds have an interest in real time search results.

It will also be interesting to see whether or not Twitter’s search team has addressed the Tweet Stream Pollution issues.

Top 50 Web Properties June 2009

July 26, 2009

comScore has released its Top 50 U.S. Internet properties for June 2009.

The top five properties are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Fox.

New to comScore’s Top 50 US Internet properties, Twitter.com entered the list for the first time @ #46 with 20+ million unique visitors.

Top 50 Web Properties June 2009

Top 50 Web Properties June 2009

Will Twitter.com climb comScore’s list any further next month or has Twitter already reached its maximum potential audience?

Twitter 101: A Twitter User Guide

July 23, 2009

Twitter has just released Twitter 101, a guide for using Twitter.

Twitter 101

Twitter 101

The guide explains what Twitter is, how to get started using Twitter, common Twitter terms, Twitter best practices and some Twitter case studies.

With Twitter growing so rapidly while having problems engaging and retaining its audience, this guide should help explain and clarify Twitter’s unique value proposition to both new and old users alike.

How To Create and Search Your Own Twitter Followers List

July 22, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a post about how to create and search a list of Twitter updates in both WordPress and Google.

Today, I am going to tackle a similar problem: Searching Twitter Followers and Following lists.

Until Twitter makes searching Twitter account followers and following lists part of Twitter search, finding someone who follows you or who is following you isn’t very easy to do.

Creating a searchable list isn’t too dificult it just requires some time.

Go to your Twitter account and click on your followers link and select list view.

This will produce a list of 20 followers per page.

Twitter Followers List

Twitter Followers List

Copy the list of followers from each page.

Depending on how many followers you have will determine how many pages you will have to scroll through and scrape to create your own searchable list.

I have 873 followers at the moment so I had to visit 43 pages to create my list.

Paste the list of followers into a Word document or Excel if you extracted tables and save.

You can now sort either the Word or Excel documents alphabetically to create your first archived list of Followers in a searchable hierarchy.

To archive your Twitter followers list in the cloud, import it into a Google indexed WordPress blog and wallah! – you will have a instant browser searchable WordPress file with a list of all your followers.

After the Googlebot visits your site, your list of followers will also be archived in Google’s search engine results pages.

I have posted my current list of Twitter followers over on TimothyCohn.com

Nielsen June 2009 Social Media Stats

July 17, 2009

Nielsen’s June 2009 Social Media Stats reports continued online member community unique audience size growth for the seven of the top ten largest social media sites.

Twitter posted the largest year over year growth rate of 1,928%.

From Nielsen Wire:

Among the top 10 social media sites, Twitter.com was again the fastest growing, increasing 1,928 percent year-over-year, from 1 million unique visitors in June 2008 to 21 million unique visitors in June 2009–making Twitter the fourth most visited member communities site in June. Facebook continued to lead as the No. 1 U.S. social networking site for the sixth month in a row, with 87.3 million unique visitors in June 2009.

Online Member Communities Unique Audience

Online Member Communities Unique Audience

Although Twitter’s audience reach grew the most, Facebook’s audience penetration remained the highest @ 4:39:33 spent on the site.

Both Facebook and Twitter saw increases in the average amount of time spent per person by their respective audiences.

Facebook was also the No. 1 social networking site among the top 10 when ranked by average time per person, with visitors spending an average of 4 hours and 33 minutes on the site in June. This is a 240 percent year-over-year increase. The average time per person on Twitter increased 522 percent year-over-year, from 5 minutes and 2 seconds in June 2008 to 31 minutes and 17 seconds in June 2009, making it the fastest growing by time per person among the top 10.

Average Time Per Person Facebook vs. Twitter

Average Time Per Person Facebook vs. Twitter

A First? The Bit.ly, Twitter and WordPress Mashup by Email

July 13, 2009

Today while thinking about posting content in several different places, I thought I would see if I could post to my Twitter, Bit.ly and WordPress accounts simultaneously.

While not exactly simultaneous or simple, the idea shows some promise.

Tim Cohn (tcohn@marketingprinciples.com)
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New Twitter Followers and Following Layout

June 30, 2009

Twitter is now displaying two new viewing options – List or Expanded – for a Twitter account’s Following and Followers on Twitter.com.

The Expanded Twitter view includes the last post from each account and a green check mark if the Twitter account is being followed.

New Twitter Followers Expanded

New Twitter Followers Expanded

In the Expanded view, two drop down boxes accompany each Followers account – a “Twitter Silhoutte” for following the follower –

Twitter Silhouette Follow

Twitter Silhouette Follow

and an Twitter options box for mentioning, direct messaging, following or blocking a follower.

Twitter Options Box

Twitter Options Box

The Twitter Followers list format provides the same options boxes without the Follower’s latest Tweet visible.

New Twitter Followers List

New Twitter Followers List

The same viewing options are available under “Following”.

Now if Twitter could only make Followers and Following lists searchable…

Tweespeed: Tweets Per Minute

June 28, 2009

Tweespeed is a cool gadget that shows how many Tweets are being made per minute.

Tweetspeed

Tweetspeed

Twitter Expands Its Reach

June 26, 2009

I don’t know what to think about this Twitter account other than its pretty funny.

Twitter Common Squirrel

Twitter Common Squirrel

One thing is for sure: Common Squirrel is a disciplined and prolific Twitter user.

Maybe not so common afterall…

Twitter Trending Topics Gone

June 25, 2009

It appears Twitter has removed the Trending Topics list of the top subjects being tweeted.

Twitter Trending Topics Gone

Twitter Trending Topics Gone

I wonder if Trending Topics had become a Twitter spam magnet?