Obama´s new Twitter account broke a new world record by collecting 1 million followers within less than five hours.
– CartoDB has created an impressive chart showing the explosion of followers globally.
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Pope Takes First Cautious Step On Twitter
Benedict XVI and his first tweet – a milestone for conservative institutions like the Catholic Church.
Full story: Pope Takes First Cautious Step On Twitter — Sends ‘Hello World’ Tweet (From An iPad) | TechCrunch.
Instagram Photos Will No Longer Appear In Twitter Streams At All
Instagram photos pushed to Twitter just show a white space in the Tweet linking to the web-version of the photo on the Instagram-website. Twitter obviously is working on the implementation of an Instagram-like service itself.
Full story: Instagram Photos Will No Longer Appear In Twitter Streams At All | TechCrunch.
Report: Twitter hits half a billion tweets a day
The half-billion number is quite an impressive milestone in Twitter´s corporate life. CEO Dick Costolo also confirmed that Twitter ist testing out “like” buttons.
Full story: Report: Twitter hits half a billion tweets a day | Internet & Media – CNET News.
Dorsey on Reduced Role at Twitter: Move On, Nothing to See Here!
After people complaining he was difficult to work with, the founder has been sidelined – and Dick Costolo is obviously strengthening his position as CEO.
Dorsey has initially been frozen out by co-founders Williams and Stone and came back after they have been sidelined several years ago…. sounds like a tech-version of “Dynasty”.
Full story: Dorsey on Reduced Role at Twitter: Move On, Nothing to See Here! – Kara Swisher – News – AllThingsD.
A virtually ad-free Olympics on Twitter was never meant to last
More than 150 million tweets about the Olympic Games and athletes like Tom daily adding more than a million followers within the past 6 weeks… But will people find it still interesting during training seasons? The return to normality also includes the expiration of the Games´ branding rules, which means the athletes´ sponsors will be playing a significant role within their future communication.
Twitter Launches Its Own Political Barometer To Track U.S. Presidential Elections
Screening and evaluating about two million Tweets each week, the index will be updated every day at 8pm ET.
Study finds world leaders take to Twitter, but new ‘Twiplomacy’ has its limits
Almost two thirds of the 193 U.N. member governments are on Twitter. The 264 Twitter accounts of heads of state and government have been analysed now: Just about 30 seem to have ever done any own tweet. Most-followed account is @BarackObama (17,8 million followers total / 76 president´s peers and other governments). His account follows only Norwegian Prime Minister Stoltenberg and Russian Prime Minister Medvedev.
Oldtweets
This is a kind of Twitter search-engine for the early Twitter-days (2006 and 2007) – seems like Tweets then were even more boring and redundant as they are today….
Twitter CEO: some days, mobile ads outsell web ads
Twitter expects to earn USD 1 billion by 2014, a figure being closely tied to the mobile advertising success. By now, promoted Tweets and paid hastags are integrated into user newsfeeds. New ad-formats for sure to be launched soon….
Full story: Twitter CEO: some days, mobile ads outsell web ads — Tech News and Analysis.
