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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 [...]

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 [...]

Questionable Nielsen Study: 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within Four Weeks

Nielsen reports that 60% of Twitter users quit within the first month, which is quite surprising to me. The most important information behind these 60% is probably the fact that Nielsen is only able to measure return visits to Twitter.com as “HotForWords” pointed out over at Mashable. Thus, the question is how many peoply actually [...]

Get the Most out of Twitter

Twitter is not just ‘what you are doing’ – here’s why.

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