Twitter Debutes In Dilbert

AFAIK this is a first time Twitter has appeared in the world of Dilbert. Goes to show how far the service is progressing into the mainstream. A recent report by eMarketer suggests that Twitter user numbers could exceed 26m in the US alone. Global estimates have been put at 35-45m current users. Even with the Continue reading →

John Mueller Answering Webmaster Questions on Twitter

John Mueller is a well known face in Google’s Webmaster Help Group and works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. Seeing as it’s Friday, he’s allowing people to send him Webmaster questions through the service. I don’t know if this is official Continue reading →

Twitter Define Rules on Spam and Commercial Usage

Twitter has released their most detailed guidelines yet on what they consider spam within their system. Commercial users take note. Although they emphasise that commercial or promotional use of Twitter is allowed the following activities may be considered spam and result in account suspension. 1. Following other accounts in order to gain attention to your Continue reading →

Jaiku Moves To Google Servers: Open To All

Jaiku have finally completed their much anticipated move to the Google App Engine. They have also moved the platform out of its closed status and given existing users an unlimited number of invitations. This email was sent out a few minutes ago: We’ve been working on the Jaiku service over the weekend after finding an Continue reading →

SocialMedian Review: First Impressions Of The Next Big Thing

What is SocialMedian.com? From Mashable.com: You can follow different topical news groups – which are a collection of activities from people interested in the same topic (called News Networks) – or subscribe to updates from other users (called Newsmakers). On your homepage, you can then filter between the activities in your News Networks and the Continue reading →