Tag Archives: Twitter

I don’t like SEO copywriting. Apart from anything I don’t think it has relevance any more. Comments?

by on June 3, 2010 in search, seo, Twitter

This is what I tweeted yesterday. Then I went away and came back an hour later – to lots of them. Comments, that is. So many in fact that I thought it was worth sharing them. First, the backstory. I’ve never really used SEO on this blog. That is, I don’t really identify keywords then [...]

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The UK Election Social Media Dashboard: What I learned

by on May 7, 2010 in monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology, Twitter, visualisation

Estimated reading time: 1.5 minutes So the dust is still settling – hasn’t actually settled yet because we have a hung parliament so all the politicians will be running around with their knees bent, flapping their arms and clucking and pecking at each other relentlessly until one of them, with a gigantic squawk, lays a [...]

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Five cool ways to find people on Twitter

by on May 3, 2010 in cloudcomputing, computing, measurement, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter

This post is probably going to get lost in the Twitter noise – and, judging by my declining stats, hardly anyone reads this blog anyway – but I still find it useful to share knowledge occasionally, not least because every day I don’t post I suffer guilt. I’ve recently been looking around Twitter a lot, [...]

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Who are: @frosty_snow, @geoff_bronson, @gavin_henderson, @peter_bently?

by on April 17, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, reputationmanagement, search, technology, trends, Twitter, visualisation

This morning I took a quick look at what people were saying on the UK Election Social Media Dashboard. I noticed a few spikes on Twitter for George Osborne. This was strange. Osborne hasn’t figured particularly highly so far, and when he has, it’s been associated with spikes for his contemporaries Darling and Cable. So [...]

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Tweetclouds of the Iraq Inquiry Blair session

by on February 1, 2010 in Twitter, visualisation

The Iraq Inquiry plods on. However, Friday 29th January did provide some interest, as Tony Blair presented his view. As Chilcot made clear, it wasn’t a trial, and no one was to be found guilty. However, there was still intense interest around what Blair would say, particularly given his recent interview with Fern Britton in [...]

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What are people saying about… Eurostar?

by on December 23, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, microblogging, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter

Eurostar is to rail travel what Terminal 5 was to air travel. While Terminal 5 was slowly falling apart, I had the opportunity to put together my first ever monitoring dashboard for people who wanted to track what was going on. Since then I’ve played around a-plenty with dashboards and monitoring systems, so while I [...]

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New Google Twitter search is good but not great

by on December 12, 2009 in computing, measurement, microblogging, monitoring, Twitter

When I heard via Shel Holz that Google is now indexing Twitter updates I got a bit excited for three reasons: 1. Were they going to show the total number of mentions? If so, we could count them as a crude index of popularity. Do a search for a term on Google and it gives [...]

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Do digital natives think the virtual world is flat?

by on October 8, 2009 in marketing, socialmedia

Does Generation Y understand social media? Two interesting recent conversations: On asking a twentysomething about her take on Twitter: “Oh, it’s just for celebrities.” On discussing the results of a student exercise on marketing: “Of 10 groups, none of them mentioned social media.” It’s true that Gen Y are the ‘digital natives’. They’ve grown up [...]

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Will one tweet ever change the world?

by on September 29, 2009 in microblogging, socialbookmarking, socialmedia, technology, trends

Sometimes, you know you’re seeing history in the making in a few video frames. Recently, there’s been a bit too much of it happening. I watched in awe as the US Senate refused Bush his bailout money – the split-screen showed the politicians’ verdict and the resultant stock market crash like a horrendous parody of [...]

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