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What Twitter could learn from Facebook when it comes to privacy and noise reduction

I’ll start this one with a short excerpt from my recent post Two Twitter Features I’m longing for to reduce the noise:
The fact that Twitter introduced lists is great. But wouldn’t it be even better if you could choose which lists should read the tweet you’re sending out?
A couple of scenarios:

I created a list of [...]

Two Twitter Features I’m longing for to reduce the noise

Two Twitter Features I’m longing for to reduce the noise: Tweeting in a language my followers don’t understand &Tweeting to specific list.

The Iranian Election and Social Media – Aljazeera Interview with Social Media Expert Robin Hamman

Fomer BBC Senior Community Producer Robin Hamman, who’s been leading the Social Media Team at Headshift for roughly a year now, was interviewed about Iran’s online media battle by Aljazeera.
As the Iranian election is still a trending topic on Twitter, it’s definitely worth watching, especially because Robin knows what he’s talking about:

A couple of [...]

You can place Twitter ads in Media Agency’s Turi2 tweets now – Here’s why you shouldn’t

German media advertising agency turi2 has announced that you can henceforth place ads in their tweets. They will cost EUR 250 minus 20% direct booking discount.

Having 2.360 followers they probably thought they could give it a try.

Considering US-American Twitter users with 10 to 100 times more followers than turi2, this might be a bit [...]

Maximo Park’s new Album Quicken the Heart and a free Download of the song Wraithlike

This blog post is a tribute to my favourite band out there – “Quicken The Heart” together with a DVD and was lucky to be one of the first 1000 purchasers who get a signed copy. A great marketing idea indeed :-)
In addition to that Maximo Park has really gone web2.0. Maximo Park got accounts [...]

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