Tag: Twitter

Twitter not a mobile medium?

We always thought that Twitter was a mobile medium, but we’re surprised to find that actually more people use Twitter from a desktop, than from a mobile, and surprise surprise Twitter fans are all big TV watchers, with Glee being their favourite programme. According to Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo more than 40% of all Twitter…

iPad and Android top trends on Twitter for 2010

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has released its list of the top trending topics on the platform for the year with Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android fighting it out for top ten placings. According to The Twitter blog , the Gulf oil spill, FIFA World Cup and the movie Inception were the top three overall trends for…

Twitter extending promoted tweets to timeline

Twitter has extended it’s Promoted Tweets – eg twitter adverts – to the timelines of HootSuite users, with a roll out to all users. Twitter launched it’s Promoted Tweets in April, with a plan for gradually rolling them out starting with search on Twitter.com, then in search through our partners, and eventually in the user…

This tweet self-destructs in one hour

If you thought the news world was harsh then the Twitter world is harsher. The adage that yesterdays news it todays chip paper is just so slow compared to a tweet. According to data from Sysomos most Tweets on Twitter don’t get discovered and are ignored. You also have a one hour window for your…

Concept of the week – Twitter Concierge

@PremierInn where’s the best place to plug in my iPad? Cheap and cheerful hotel chain Premier Inn has announced it will be introducing a Twitter-based ‘virtual’ concierge service for its guests. From today and for every Friday in October, Premier Inn guests will be able to Twitter requests via their mobile to a virtual Twitter…

Multitasking mobile and TV

Years ago there was anecdotal evidence to say that most mobile web browsing was done between 6-9pm and via wifi, as users flicked through the web while watching TV.  And if you look at Twitter feeds for #xfactor #eastenders #corrie when the programmes are on, you’ll soon see evidence of mobile users twittering and watching.…

Mobile data bandwidth usage increases by 68%

A report by Allot MobileTrends shows a 68% growth in global mobile data bandwidth usage in first half (H1), 2010, with Twitter bandwidth jumping by 310%, Facebook by 200%, and YouTube by 123%. Allot Communications’s latest MobileTrends Report shows a significant growth for mobile data bandwidth in H1 of 2010. With video streaming applications continuing…

Facebook is the king of apps

Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…

Mobile Twitter usage up by 250%

The number of people accessing Twitter from their mobile has grown by 250% since the start of this year, according to CEO Evan Williams. The statistic was one just one of many revealed by Williams at a press conference for the new redesigned Twitter that will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Williams…

Twitter users are now more mobile

Twitter’s mobile user numbers have increased 62% since April following efforts to make the service easier to discover and use on smartphones. A post on blog.twitter.com by Evan Williams Twitter co-founder and CEO added that 16% of all new Twitter users were using it on mobile and that 46% of all active users regularly use…

Twitter 101 – How to choose a successful Twitter name

Twitter 101 – Chapter 1 Part 1 – Choosing a successful Twitter name This is the first article in a series of helpful briefs on how to get ahead on mobile, and in this first article we look at choosing an effective name on Twitter. Everyone agrees that there’s a benefit from being on the…

Twitter official iPhone app now out

What’s new in version 3 of Tweetie? Well it’s now called Twitter and so far it’s been released in New Zealand and is making it’s way around the world, so we’re only hours away from getting it in the UK/US. UPDATE 7pm – The app is now live and ready for download http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8 New features…

Twitter to launch it’s own iPhone app today

If you’re looking for the Atebits Tweetie 2 app today then don’t bother, it’s been removed to allow for the new official Twitter app If you go to iTunes US and UK Tweetie no longer shows up. Links to Tweetie 2 on itunes also now return error messages. However according to Mobile Entertainment site people…

Twitter sends 1bn sms a month and buys the company sending them

Twitter has bought out its SMS partner Cloudhopper for an undisclosed amount. The start up has been working with Twitter to build Twitter’s SMS messaging service and as of Friday April 23 it is now part of the messaging community. Cloudhopper, a messaging infrastructure company has enabled Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks…

Twitter still growing fast

Twitter released a mountain of statistics at Chirp chirp.twitter.com, the company’s developer conference, about its business. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, over the past three years: Twitter has grown to a massive 105.7 million registered users (and it’s increasing by 300,000 each day, with 50% from outside of the US), with 180 million visitors…

Twitter not dead yet

Twitter has a reputation of being a broadcast medium, with just a few users twittering and everyone following, but new figures from Sysomos seem to show that those silent users are starting to get a little noisier. Sysomos looked at over a billion tweets made in the last four months and found that the number…