A new Twitter-based advertising service called Magpie was recently launched, giving Twitter users the opportunity to earn money in return for allowing adverts to be posted in their Twitter stream between updates.
So if someone you follow has sign...
I love Twitter. But I’m starting to fall very much out of love with some of the tweets that pop up in my stream.
Yes, obviously, Twitter offers us a quicker, less formal, real-time version of email. And yes, it’s gone way beyond its original p...
Ok, it didn't actually save my life but I definitely felt something change this weekend. I was sitting at home in quiet, decidedly suburban Durbanville when I heard a tremendous bang and the front door shook like it had just been hit by something ve...
For those of you who don't know, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and receive other users' updates, known as tweets. Tweets can be seen as text messages which move between users' computers r...
I found this interesting -- yet another example of social media being considered a viable facet of a marketing strategy.
Lenovo has sponsored this portal for athlete bloggers at the Olympics.
The site is well designed. Lots of bloggers wri...
On Twitter today, Web Goldenboy Charl Norman posed the question: "When will Twitter innovate?"
(Watch this video if you're unfamiliar with Twitter)
I suspect that Charl means to ask when Twitter will add more features, such as those seen in Plu...
A few things about Twitter have been irritating me recently and this has everything to do with its lack of versatility. Twitter's alert function, which can syndicate "tweets" to any third party device or application (Mobile, Facebook, etc.), leaves ...
Although MXit is an exciting development in the South African social media space, it has suffered from a lot of FUD.
As per Wikipedia, FUD is “Fear, uncertainty and doubt: a tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing, public relations.” I bel...
I had a thought on Twitter a few days ago: Could a Google acquisition of Twitter help the service scale? Or is it not an infrastructure issue but more a platform issue? Twitter has suffered from serious downtime over the last few weeks, trying to kee...
Twitter, Plurk and Kwippy are the micro-blogging platforms gaining the most traction among micro-blogging enthusiasts at the moment. Twitter is leading the pack with Plurk following closely behind. Kwippy is the new kid on the block, being an Indian ...
