paidContent Quick Hits: 7.30.09

By Alex Ferreyra

Jul. 30, 2009 - 10:40 PM EST Jul. 30, 2009 - 10:40 PM EST

» Is Twitter ruining sports journalism by cutting out reporters and letting the athletes control the message? [USA Today]

»… Read more »

Kutcher: Something Will Come Along That Will Replace Twitter

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 24, 2009 - 11:30 PM EST Jul. 24, 2009 - 11:30 PM EST

photo: Brad Markel for FORTUNE

Ashton Kutcher, the @aplusk of Twitter with almost 3 million followers, spoke today at the Brainstorm Tech conference. He said that he had s… Read more »

Twitter Report Card: Padmasree Warrior

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 24, 2009 - 1:00 AM EST Jul. 24, 2009 - 1:00 AM EST

photo: Joi

Whether you like it or not, Twitter is changing the way people communicate, and digital media and technology companies are eager to harness… Read more »

Kevin Spacey Explains Twitter To David Letterman

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 22, 2009 - 11:57 PM EST Jul. 22, 2009 - 11:57 PM EST

Oodle + Twitter = Another Jab At Craigslist

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 9, 2009 - 5:49 PM EST Jul. 9, 2009 - 5:49 PM EST

Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist’s domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like *AOL* and… Read more »

Current Scraps Twitter-Centric Agency Search (And Exec Behind The Idea)

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 3, 2009 - 12:14 AM EST Jul. 3, 2009 - 12:14 AM EST

Al Gore-backed Current Media enticed multiple ad agencies to tweet for its business in April, but now the attention-grabbing idea has been s… Read more »

Twitter Report Card: Tony Hsieh

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 2, 2009 - 12:45 AM EST Jul. 2, 2009 - 12:45 AM EST

photo: AP Images

Whether you like it or not, Twitter is changing the way people communicate, and digital media companies are eager to harness this new tool.… Read more »

Facebook Goes Public With New Sharing Options

By Joseph Tartakoff

Jun. 25, 2009 - 4:56 AM EST Jun. 25, 2009 - 4:56 AM EST

Facebook introduced two features Wednesday that should better position the social networking site as a source of real-time information on th… Read more »

Twitter Report Card: Arianna Huffington

By Tameka Kee

Jun. 24, 2009 - 7:30 PM EST Jun. 24, 2009 - 7:30 PM EST

photo: AP Images

Whether you like it not, Twitter is changing the way people communicate, and media companies are eager to harness this new tool. Every week,… Read more »

Twitter Serves As Lifeline For Iranian Citizens; Pushes Back Downtime

By Tameka Kee

Jun. 16, 2009 - 6:15 AM EST Jun. 16, 2009 - 6:15 AM EST

Twitter’s reliability as a real-time search engine, and a source of (accurate) breaking news has been debated — but in the case of the civi… Read more »

Twitter, Facebook To Protect High-Profile Accounts, But What About Average Joes?

By Tameka Kee

Jun. 12, 2009 - 10:54 PM EST Jun. 12, 2009 - 10:54 PM EST

What’s in a screen name, Facebook profile or Twitter account? Brand equity and integrity, for some; potential revenue streams (from selling… Read more »

Super Chirp: Making It Simple For People To Get Paid For Their Tweets

By Tameka Kee

Jun. 8, 2009 - 10:37 AM EST Jun. 8, 2009 - 10:37 AM EST

Here’s another attempt to answer the question of how much a million social media followers, friends or fans might be worth. If Shaquille O’N… Read more »

@ D7: Twitter Founders Say Company Control Is Safe

By Staci D. Kramer

May. 27, 2009 - 7:32 AM EST May. 27, 2009 - 7:32 AM EST

Thought I was going to get away with twittering, not posting, about the first session of D7, the annual Kara Swisher-Walt Mossberg conferenc… Read more »

How Will Twitter Monetize Search If It’s Broken?

By Tameka Kee

May. 22, 2009 - 11:06 PM EST May. 22, 2009 - 11:06 PM EST

The hype around Twitter’s utility as a real-time search tool has even rubbed off on *Google*, but there are signs that the startup’s plans t… Read more »

@ EconSM: Baseline’s Ron Conway: ‘I Don’t Use Twitter Or Facebook’

By Tameka Kee

May. 15, 2009 - 5:22 AM EST May. 15, 2009 - 5:22 AM EST

The list of social media properties Baseline Ventures’ Ron Conway has backed includes Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Seesmic … and it goes on an… Read more »

@ EconSM: Twitter’s Business Model: Search, Carriers And Content

By Tameka Kee

May. 15, 2009 - 12:34 AM EST May. 15, 2009 - 12:34 AM EST

We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators — but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s directo… Read more »

@ EconSM: How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content

By Tameka Kee

May. 14, 2009 - 11:35 PM EST May. 14, 2009 - 11:35 PM EST

We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators — but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s directo… Read more »

Dow Jones Writers Get Served New Twitter-Specific Conduct Rules

By Tameka Kee

May. 14, 2009 - 2:36 AM EST May. 14, 2009 - 2:36 AM EST

Codes of conduct and ethics are nothing new in newsrooms, but revising those rules with sites like Twitter and Facebook in mind is distinctl… Read more »

Oprah, Ashton Propel Twitter’s Traffic Past The WSJ, NYT

By Tameka Kee

May. 12, 2009 - 3:24 AM EST May. 12, 2009 - 3:24 AM EST

This, is what the “Oprah impact,” Ashton Kutcher’s followers race with CNN and non-stop coverage from tech and media blogs amounts to: Twitt… Read more »

Current Network Makes Ad Agencies Tweet For Its Business

By Tameka Kee

May. 4, 2009 - 11:39 PM EST May. 4, 2009 - 11:39 PM EST

Even as developers struggle with Twitter’s abrupt platform changes — and worry about having their service shut down all together — compani… Read more »

Correction: MTV Will Only Split Ad Revs From New Show With Facebook

By Tameka Kee

May. 2, 2009 - 3:28 AM EST May. 2, 2009 - 3:28 AM EST

Correction: It seems that rev-share talks between MTV and Twitter weren’t finalized by the time What You’re Watching was highlighted at the… Read more »

How Microsoft (And Others) Are Trying To Make Money From Status Updates

By Tameka Kee

Apr. 28, 2009 - 10:51 PM EST Apr. 28, 2009 - 10:51 PM EST

Just a year ago, the idea of building a business around people’s status updates — getting them to answer questions like “What are you doing… Read more »

Why Making Twitter Apps Could Be A Risky Business

By Tameka Kee

Apr. 22, 2009 - 8:42 PM EST Apr. 22, 2009 - 8:42 PM EST

Twitter has capped the number of accounts a user could follow in a single day to 1,000 — the company said there were “technical reasons” be… Read more »

@ USA Today CEO Forum: Barry Diller: IAC-AOL Deal Makes Sense But Too Intricate

By Staci D. Kramer

Apr. 21, 2009 - 2:14 AM EST Apr. 21, 2009 - 2:14 AM EST

Updated Some 300 business undergrads and MBA students at Washington University in St. Louis were treated to the Barry Diller show Monday aft… Read more »

Twitter On Oprah: Will It Be A Boon Or Bust?

By Tameka Kee

Apr. 17, 2009 - 12:31 AM EST Apr. 17, 2009 - 12:31 AM EST

An endorsement from Oprah is like the holy grail for an under-the-radar author, inventor or wanna-be lifestyle coach — but will it be a boo… Read more »

Twitter Traffic More Than Doubles In March

By Joseph Tartakoff

Apr. 16, 2009 - 2:00 AM EST Apr. 16, 2009 - 2:00 AM EST

It’s not news that Twitter is popular. But new numbers from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) quantify just how astonishing the service’s growth has bee… Read more »

Twitter Added 5 Million Users In March

By Joseph Tartakoff

Apr. 16, 2009 - 1:51 AM EST Apr. 16, 2009 - 1:51 AM EST

It’s not news that Twitter is popular. But new numbers from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) quantify just how astonishing the service’s growth has bee… Read more »

12seconds Tries To Push Video Ads For Twitter

By Tameka Kee

Apr. 9, 2009 - 8:19 PM EST Apr. 9, 2009 - 8:19 PM EST

Add a new online video unit to the ranks of pre-rolls, post-rolls and overlays: the 12-second Twitter spot. Video-sharing site 12seconds has… Read more »

What Are A Million Social-Media Followers, Friends Or Subscribers Worth?

By Tameka Kee

Apr. 9, 2009 - 5:02 PM EST Apr. 9, 2009 - 5:02 PM EST

Companies and celebrities are boasting about the number of fans and followers they’ve racked up across various social-media sites, which beg… Read more »

Twitter Backs London-Based Marketing Company Twitterpartners

By Patrick Smith

Apr. 8, 2009 - 4:07 PM EST Apr. 8, 2009 - 4:07 PM EST

It has phenomenal growth and faddish mainstream buzz but maybe now — finally — someone may start to make money from Twitter. Virgin Media… Read more »

Updated: London-Based Twitterpartners Ad Consortium Launches; A Business Model At Last?

By Patrick Smith

Apr. 8, 2009 - 2:24 PM EST Apr. 8, 2009 - 2:24 PM EST

UPDATE: Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone now says in a blog post the company has “no official business arrangement” with Twitterpartners, cont… Read more »

Analysts Size Up Potential Google/Twitter Deal–And Don’t Agree

By Rory Maher

Apr. 7, 2009 - 2:09 AM EST Apr. 7, 2009 - 2:09 AM EST

Speculation that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is in talks to buy two-year-old micro-blogger Twitter was rampant last week following a TechCrunch repo… Read more »

Google Links Up With Twitter — To Sell Ads

By Joseph Tartakoff

Apr. 3, 2009 - 10:59 PM EST Apr. 3, 2009 - 10:59 PM EST

A new option for companies looking to boost their Twitter followings: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now letting advertisers stream their Tweets on… Read more »

Updated: Why Twitter’s Search Makeover Matters — And Why Google Might Be In The Hunt

By Joseph Tartakoff

Apr. 3, 2009 - 1:37 AM EST Apr. 3, 2009 - 1:37 AM EST

On its face, Twitter’s decision to put a search box on the right-hand column of all its user’s profile pages and to put query results on tho… Read more »

Industry Moves: Twitter Hires Google’s Head Designer As Creative Director

By Joseph Tartakoff

Mar. 31, 2009 - 7:44 AM EST Mar. 31, 2009 - 7:44 AM EST

When Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Design Lead Douglas Bowman quit in somewhat of a huff two weeks ago, he hinted that he had something else lined up.… Read more »

The Twitter Economy: URL-Shortener bit.ly Raises $2 Million First Round

By Tameka Kee

Mar. 31, 2009 - 2:54 AM EST Mar. 31, 2009 - 2:54 AM EST

Twitter may be on the path to bringing in real revenue, but that’s not the case for most of the other startups like TweetDeck and Stocktwits… Read more »

It’s Come To This: Hiring Someone To Tweet For You

By Tameka Kee

Mar. 27, 2009 - 10:24 PM EST Mar. 27, 2009 - 10:24 PM EST

News that a new company or celebrity has adopted Twitter is now daily fare, and with people offering up $250,000 for as-yet-unavailable “spo… Read more »

Twitter Brings Back UK SMS, More Countries To Follow

By Robert Andrews

Mar. 27, 2009 - 3:10 AM EST Mar. 27, 2009 - 3:10 AM EST

We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users – and now it’s happening. The microb… Read more »

Updated: Twitter Brings Back UK SMS; Vodafone First, Others To Follows

By Robert Andrews

Mar. 27, 2009 - 2:58 AM EST Mar. 27, 2009 - 2:58 AM EST

We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users – and now it’s happening. The microb… Read more »

newer1…16 171819 20page 18 of 20older

Coming up at GigaOM

Follow us

paidContent Quick Hits: 7.30.09

Kutcher: Something Will Come Along That Will Replace Twitter

@ D7: Twitter Founders Say Company Control Is Safe

@ EconSM: How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content

Comment as guest:

Comment with your social network:

Comment as guest: