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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 [...]

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 start using [...]

Get the Most out of Twitter

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

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