Twitter verified MSF_USA – Doctors without Borders account. However they immediately used it to ‘broadcast’ spam messages. Good cause aside, spam is spam!
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Twitter – Verified Spam for MSF_USA Doctors Without Borders
10th July 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Not For Profit, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks
Huge list: You know you are addicted to Twitter if
Given the current State of the Twitosphere (down, and out, under maintenance – check here for Status) I thought a You know you are addicted to Twitter if post was in order. Perused and collated from around the web: You went to a Tweet Up but had nothing to say to the people you met. [...]
tagged in addicted, addiction, down, maintenance, Twitter
Saturday: The collective Rainbow
Schleppin’ around on a Saturday afternoon – winter in Sydney. Saw a rainbow loitering outside our balcony. Gary Hayes had to have a photo of it: It occurred to me that my social network and beyond, the extended zeitgeist might’ve taken photos too. and I was right: jnefedova, and MGR16 and thetone A shared moment. [...]
Own your mistakes – Zappos
24th May 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Online Communities, Twitter, blogs, social media, social networks
Zappos 6pm.com make a $1.6 million mistake. Get lots of PR in return and social media cuddles. Zappos the Twitter wunderkinds made a big boo boo. Their pricing engine set a maximum price of $49.95. Six hours later, and 1.6 million dollars later, the company blogs about it: Hey everyone – As many of you [...]
tagged in 6pm.com, aaron magness, buzzmachine, jeff jarvis, macknuttie, readwriteweb, richard webb, social media, Twitter, zappos
#1: Mistakes Companies Make on Twitter TIMELINES VELOCITY
24th May 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Australia, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks
This is a series of posts (one a day so another one tomorrow!) on mistakes companies make when using Twitter for business. Entering online communities is easy (mostly) but working effectively is hard. This series shows the mistake and (hopefully) the fix. This particular post is on Velocity and Timelines in Social Media. Optus, one [...]
22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets
14th April 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Featured, Monetization, Online Communities, Twitter, revenue, social media, social networks
Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. One, should we monetize other people’s activity? Two, how can Twitter make money? The first question is ethical – if money and currency is about a show of worth, a menu of value, then yes, we can [...]
Twitter: @Anywhere announcement
16th March 2010 by Laurel Papworth under API, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks, web 3.0
Twitter just announced @anywhere platform – notice who is missing? Google! Dunno why, Bing is there, but there must be a war forming between Twits vs Googlers. Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release: Monday, March 15, 2010 When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model [...]
Twitter: Block list and Who I block on Twitter
Scott Pape @ScottPape of Barefoot.com.au accidentally blocked a bunch of followers and was trying to work out who he had blocked. “It appears that one of my guys has accidently blocked most of my followers by using a 3rd party app. I’m a technophobe – can anyone help?” Now I’ve blocked thousands of spammers and [...]
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