Harvard, Twitter and the Pareto Principle
A Harvard Business School study, as reported by Reuters, raises a serious question on the value of Twitter for businesses. Relying upon research by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, results show greater than 50% of Twitter users will tweet less than one time every ten to eleven weeks. Along with that, many have witnessed Twitter struggling to keep their system running, due to an overload of tweets, apparently by 10% of all Twitter users; who are responsible for blasting out 90% of all tweets. What an interesting twist on the Pareto principle.
Fail Whale says Twitter is Over Capacity
Notwithstanding there are some companies utilizing the social value of Twitter, one would have to question whether or not tweeting holds much value for smaller companies. The Harvard study seems to indicate that of all Twitter users they will tweet on average only once during their Twitter lifetime. Read more
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Cricket & Twitter Solution
I have a Cricket phone and I have a Twitter account. I would like to set up my phone device to be able to tweet. The solution is to use Ping.fm.
Apparently, Cricket does not support five digit codes. In fact, I read a post from about eight months ago, when a customer contacted Cricket to ask about making their phones Twitter-friendly. At that time, they did not know who the customer was talking about. Well, eight months later and they still do not have a friendly relationship.
Ping.fm is free to sign up and free to use. You can use it for updating your MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and other accounts, too.
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Toms Skyline Design is now Twitter enabled
I have been re-facing this site and converting it over to a Wordpress based site. I already had a WP blog on the site see here However, that is an older version of WP and I would have needed to make a lot of changes to the theme I had previously customized in order for it to work and play well with the newest version of Wordpress. So, I decided to switch out the other site that included a Flash header and lots of php includes, to a completely new look.
In the process, I have included a plugin which added a Twitter button on all pages, posts and comments. So, now if you place a comment to any posts on this site you can tweet it, too.
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