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July 5, 2009

Rate of Tweets Per Second Doubles


The sudden interest in the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett was apparently too much for Twitter’s search engine, which quickly got overloaded and returned results that were increasingly delayed—when it returned them at all.

 

Read more: http://globalitandbusinessnews.blogspot.com/2009/07/rate-of-tweets-per-second-doubles.html

 

Tags: Biz Stone, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Twitter’s search engine, Twitter search, tweets per second doubles, Ethan Zuckerman, Harvard’s Berkman Center For Law and Society, Global IT News, LA Times, Ed McMahon, 

Filed under  //   Biz Stone   Ed McMahon   Ethan Zuckerman   Farrah Fawcett   Global IT News   Harvard’s Berkman Center For Law and Society   LA Times   Michael Jackson   tweets per second doubles   Twitter search   Twitter’s search engine  
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June 16, 2009

US Asks Twitter to Stay Online Because of Iran Vote


NEW YORK (AFP) – The US government took the unusual step of asking Twitter to delay a planned maintenance outage because of its use as a communications tool by Iranians following their disputed election, according to a senior official.

 

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-asks-twitter-to-stay-online-because.html

 

Tags: US State Department, Obama, Biz Stone, Twitter, NTT America, Jack Dorsey, 140 Character Conference, Jeff Pulver, Iran, Iranians, Facebook, Election, Election Protests, Global Development News, 

Filed under  //   140 Character Conference   Biz Stone   Election   Election Protests   Facebook   Global Development News   Iran   Iranians   Jack Dorsey   Jeff Pulver   NTT America   Obama   Twitter   US State Department  
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June 13, 2009

Dell Is Monetizing Twitter


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media company Twitter is struggling to craft a profitable business model, but the Web-based service has helped Dell Inc chalk up millions of dollars in sales.

 

Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3 million from Twitter followers who clicked through its posts to its Web sites to make purchases. The company, which has posted to Twitter about two years and tracks the sales with proprietary software, made more than $1 million in the past 6 months.

 

Read more: http://globalbestpractice.blogspot.com/2009/06/dell-is-monetizing-twitter.html

 

Tags: Dell monetizing Twitter, Twitter, Dell, Jetblue, Woot, Zappos, Naked Pizza, Reuters Global Technology Summit, Biz Stone, Nielsen, IDC, Gartner DellOutlet, Global Best Practices, 

Filed under  //   Biz Stone   Dell   Dell monetizing Twitter   Gartner DellOutlet   Global Best Practices   IDC   Jetblue   Naked Pizza   Nielsen   Reuters Global Technology Summit   Twitter   Woot   Zappos  
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