Ed. Note: This article originally appeared in my Postmedia News social media column. This week people have been asking me how to build a Twitter following. No doubt they’ve heard my rant about how, unlike traditional media, social media publishing starts with no audience and no content. Your first tweet is often a lonely missive [...]
Twitter has been steadily rolling out the new Twitter over the past several weeks. Specifically they have changed the web interface of Twitter, which only a portion of Twitter subscribers actually use. Below is the official video announcement regarding the new Twitter, which gets around to showing the new interface around a minute and 10 [...]
For once I was right. Yup, I said it — a phrase that rarely leaves my lips and is generally disallowed at home by she who sets the rules. In an earlier column, I predicted Twitter would launch an advertising service and this week it did. Of course, a monkey could have predicted this (and, [...]
This week Twitter suffered a maelstrom of spam, porn and phishing attacks. As Pete Cashmore, founder of @mashable, wrote in his CNN column: “The anatomy of these attacks is simple: You receive a message, seemingly from a friend on a social network. The message contains a link and some strong incentive to click it — [...]
The social web swept away 2009 and ushered in 2010 with much talk of hangovers and hair of the dog. In the words of @Sleeperkid: “To my friends already cleaning house, doing pilates, and getting work done: STOP IT. You’re making me feel like the hung over bum I am.” For the intellectually curious drunk, [...]
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