by uwtwtrbook on 18 May 2010
in Examples
This Chicago Sun-Times article features Dietzler Farms (@DietzlerFarms) from Elkhart, Wisconsin.
Dietzler signed up for Twitter last year out of curiosity. Her first tweet was an open invitation for a rack of short ribs.
“Within three minutes, Phillip Foss [the chef at Lockwood] texted me and said, ‘I’ll take them all,’ ” she says. Her second tweet included the link to Foss’ blog, the Pickled Tongue, which had details of the dinner that would feature those ribs.
This is a great example of both B2B and B2C tweeting!
What other farms are using Twitter?
by Kathy Gill on 10 May 2010
in Media
Analysis from the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology “reveals that the micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading ‘important’ information.” Details from Technology Review.
This morning, @biz (Biz Stone) and @ev (Evan Williams) kicked off Twitter’s first official developer conference, Chirp, with some facts and data and a stunning announcement related to the Library of Congress.
First, the numbers. There are 105.8 million registered users but 180 million monthly unique visitors to the website. The deduction: non-registered users read tweets. And we know that registered users read tweets primarily from other devices. Williams noted that Twitter is currently handling 3 billion requests a day; this API-driven traffic is equivalent to Yahoo, he said, noting that no other major service is this distributed.
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by Kathy Gill on 11 April 2010
in Events
by Kathy Gill on 13 March 2010
in Events
On Monday, Twitter reported that it is managing 50 million tweets a day (600 tweets per second). In 2007, the average (?) was 5,000 times a day and by 2009 hit 35 million a day.
Twitter Reports 50 Million Tweets Per Day
Today, Twitter reported that it is managing 50 million tweets a day (600 tweets per second). In 2007, the average (?) was 5,000 times a day and by 2009 hit 35 million a day.
Today, in a 24-hour period, the rapper Lil’ Wayne (@LilTuneChi) garnered 112,466 followers (TwitterCounter). For context, I think Oprah gathered 215,961 followers in her first 24-hour period (but my interpretation of the blog post could be in error). She had 56,000 followers before she had posted her first tweet.
Today, in the 21-hour period after posting his first tweet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama had attracted about 40,000 followers. (I’ll update Tuesday with data from TwitterCounter.) Is there another religious figure that compares? (The Pope endorsed digital outreach in January, but I have not heard of anyone from the church setting up Twitter.)
Pretty amazing untapped desire; more fodder for the hype cycle. Screenshots below the fold.
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