Category: Twitter

Twitter to change how shortened links are displayed

David Cowling | June 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

Twitter is making a change over the coming weeks as to how shortened links are displayed on the site. Twitter will be using shortened t.co links to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, viruses, and other harmful activity. Basically an effort to improve security to Twitter users. The [...]

20 Interesting Social Media statistics

David Cowling | June 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

20 Interesting Facts about Social Media #1 – Social media spending is expected to increase from $716 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2014, which is a compound annual growth rate of 34% (CAGR) #2 – That 34% CAGR means that social media spending is growing faster than any other interactive marketing category #3 [...]

Twitter working on more language translations

David Cowling | June 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

Twitter has announced that they are working on several translations of the site to give non-English users a better experience using the site. Twitter is working on the following language translations at present – Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish. At the moment Twitter is in invite-only mode with users helping the [...]

ACCC suggests product recalls via Social Media

David Cowling | May 31, 2010 | Comments (0)

These-days large companies are finding all news sorts of ways to interact and communicate with their customer base. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said 60-70% of Australians now have internet access and issuing product recalls via social media sites such as Twitter, blogs and forums is a good way to reach another [...]

6 downfalls of the official Twitter iPhone app

David Cowling | May 23, 2010 | Comments (0)

So Twitter has recently launched their own mobile applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android coming soon. However the app may not be all that good, there seem to be a couple areas it doesn’t stack up. 1. The app does not let you do the old style of ReTweet – RT 2. Limited Icon [...]

TweetDeck secures another $3 million VC funding

David Cowling | May 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

TweetDeck is a social media tool that can be used on mobile or desktop devices to manager your Twitter account and more recently Foursquare and Google Buzz. Betaworks is the company behind the additional $3 million funding to Tweetdeck. Twitter has recently launched their own application simply called Twitter (used to be called Tweetie). TweetDeck [...]

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally denies Twitter lies

David Cowling | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

This week NSW parliament passed legislation granting same sex couples to officially register their relationships in the state of New South Wales. However some concerned Australians asked NSW Premier Kristina Keneally why she was not present for the vote, via Twitter. Kristina rejected suggesstion she missed the vote because of her strong Christian beliefs/morals in [...]

Social Media stats courtesy of Smash summit

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

Smash Summit was on yesterday, 12/5 in San Francisco- USA. The event discussed various social media marketing strategies, tools, campaigns and statistics used by online companies to find and retain customers on social, search, and mobile. While not directly related to Australian Social Media there have been some great stats worth noting. – Twitter has [...]

New Twitter service converts your stream into newspaper layout

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

A new 3rd Party Twitter service Paper.li allows you to convert your Twitter steam into a newspaper style layout. The service is similar in a way to Twitters embeddable tweet service – however this is a more visually appealing way to display your whole Twitter steam instead of just an individual tweet. Like a newspaper [...]

Australian Defence minister & fake Twitter account

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

John Faulkner, who is the Australian Defence minister has had to explain to parliament about a fake Twitter account created in his name. The account SenJohnFaulkner looks fairly legitimate, however the Minister has said he does not user Twitter or Facebook. Unfortunately with Twitter there is alot of impersonation going on, and when that enters [...]

Twitter Business Centre is coming

David Cowling | May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

Twitter has confirmed that they are currently BETA testing their ‘Twitter Business Centre’. Using this feature as a business allows the following: – create a customer Business Twitter profile page – Add a ‘verified account’ badge to your business profile – Allow multiple users to tweet from your business account. Twitter is also allowing business [...]

Twitter bug lets you control your followers

David Cowling | May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

The is a bug in the Twitter system that lets users decide who is following them. It has been reported that writing ‘(tweet) accept (username)” then the (username) starts following you immediately. This has been confirmed by many Twitter account now following an increase number of users who have not been manually followed. Many people [...]

Napster integrates social media – Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube

David Cowling | May 7, 2010 | Comments (0)

Music download program Napster has recently integrated with several social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube so users can share their music with friends across several social channels. Once a cult hit, Napster has been rather quiet over the past years and this seems like a smart move to re-establish themselves with a [...]