Tag: twitter
Business or Personal: How to manage your corporate Twitter profile
Its a well understood maxim that technology companies are the “early adopters” of most things new in technology. Used to be financial services and telecommunications were the flag bearers, but if you were developing any kind of software the first companies you’d go and knock on the door of were in New York or Silicon [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Analysis, Main Stream Media, twitter.
Tags: Business use of Twitter, IVR, social media, Social News, twitter
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The Fail Whale vesus the Oops Merlin: Who wins?
Friday are fun times are they not?
I have always liked the Twitter Fail Whale. Somehow the frailities of web applications, not able to scale has made the service more human. Possibly added to the appeal of the “we are normal folks unlike Google” kind.
I saw the fail whale equivalent Oops Merlin at LinkedIn today.
So which [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Marketing, Public Relations.
Tags: Fail Whale, Humor, LinkedIn, Merlin, twitter
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The best feature on twitter – the direct message
Anyone can send you an email. Which is the main reason for the SPAM. Anyone who can does send you unwanted email. What if you had a system where you had to authorize someone to send you email. If you did not “authorize” them, they could not.
This is different from “whitelists. In a whitelist, if [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Analysis, twitter.
Tags: direct message, Robert Scoble, social media, twitter
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