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So will Buzz and Facebook finally bury Twitter?

Buzz was introduced by Google with much clamor. Since then, we have seen a lot of debate around it: Google stepping into the social media arena cannot go unnoticed. Many quickly saw Buzz as a Twitter killer [...]

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February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Google, social network, Twitter | Category: social network | Leave a comment

Twitter and snowflakes

According to the official weather service, the UK has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981.

The recent winter storms across the whole of the UK wreaked havoc with public transport and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. Soon hundreds of thousands of UK [...]

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January 19th, 2010 | Tags: apps, Twitter | Category: social network | 2 comments

Is Twitter Flattening? A Short Answer

Compete and Quantcast have now released their latest data about the traffic on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for December. According to Compete’s report, twitter.com’s US traffic reached 22.81 million unique visitors [...]

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January 12th, 2010 | Tags: apps, mobile, social network, Twitter | Category: social network | Leave a comment

The truth about Twitter usage

Three research firms reported traffic to Twitter.com dropping between the month of September and October. According to these firms, the number of unique US visitors to the Twitter website went down [...]

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December 2nd, 2009 | Tags: advertising, marketing, mobile, social network, Twitter | Category: Tech | One comment

Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down?

The last 10 days have been pretty interesting to follow in the fast moving world of Twitter. They showed a contrasting (or seemingly so) picture of where the super-hyped company is heading. Let us rewind the last few events [...]

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November 24th, 2009 | Tags: advertising, apps, Google, marketing, Microsoft, mobile, quality, search, social network, Twitter | Category: Business | Leave a comment

What is Twitter’s next step?

Lots has been written and hyped about Twitter since its creation three years ago. Twitter has been touted as the fastest growing social network (19% of U.S. Internet users tweet), and a communication medium with still unforeseen capabilities. The company [...]

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November 1st, 2009 | Tags: Business, Google, Microsoft, search, startup, Twitter | Category: Business | Leave a comment

What was hot at the TechCrunch Munich event?

I was today in Sun Microsystems offices, which co-hosted the TechCrunch Munich event. Mike Butcher, editor TechCrunch Europe, was here to take about 150 attendants through a few presentations and 12 startup pitches. I promised I would write about what I liked, so here it goes.

The breakroom had a tweeter wall with live reaction [...]

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October 20th, 2009 | Tags: Business, show, startup, Twitter | Category: Business, Tech | 3 comments

Dilbert made my day

Shortest blog so far, all in one Dilbert’s insightful cartoon (click the image for better view).  Thanks Scott Adams!

October 5th, 2009 | Tags: Twitter | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

How Twitter is changing access to information

Nowadays it looks like no newsworthy event or article can exist without being tweeted around.  I myself went through the Twitter experience, and I thought I would write about how it is transforming my way of accessing information –or how the information finds me.

Twitter has been launched publicly in July 2006.  Three years of existence [...]

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September 30th, 2009 | Tags: Twitter | Category: social network | Leave a comment