Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Apr 28, 2009

All about Twitter - an easy way to buzz your traffic

Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...Image via CrunchBase

Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends. See what people are doing right now.

Where did the idea for Twitter come from?

Jack Dorsey had grown interested in the simple idea of being able to know what his friends were doing. Specifically, Jack wondered if there might be an opportunity to build something compelling around this simple status concept. When he brought the idea up to his colleagues, it was decided that a prototype should be built.

Twitter was funded initially by Obvious, a creative environment in San Francisco, CA. The first prototype was built in two weeks in March 2006 and launched publicly in August of 2006. The service grew popular very quickly and it soon made sense for Twitter to move outside of Obvious. In May 2007, Twitter Incorporated was founded.

Why do so many people seem to like Twitter?

Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

Twitter's core technology is a device agnostic message routing system with rudimentary social networking features. By accepting messages from sms, web, mobile web, instant message, or from third party API projects, Twitter makes it easy for folks to stay connected.

Isn't Twitter just too much information?

No, in fact, Twitter solves information overload by changing expectations traditionally associated with online communication. At Twitter, we ask one question, "What are you doing?" The answers to this question are for the most part rhetorical. In other words, users do not expect a response when they send a message to Twitter. On the receiving end, Twitter is ambient--updates from your friends and relatives float to your phone, IM, or web site and you are only expected to pay as much or as little attention to them as you see fit.

The result of using Twitter to stay connected with friends, relatives, and coworkers is that you have a sense of what folks are up to but you are not expected to respond to any updates unless you want to. This means you can step in and out of the flow of information as it suits you and it never queues up with increasing demand of your attention. Additionally, users are very much in control of whose updates they receive, when they receive them, and on what device. For example, we provide settings for scheduling Twitter to automatically turn off at dinnertime and users can switch off Twitter updates at any point.

Simply put, Twitter is what you make of it--receive a lot of information about your friends, or just a tiny bit. It's up to them.

How is Twitter built?

Our engineering team works with a web application framework called Ruby on Rails. We all work on macintosh computers except for testing purposes. Our web site and user interface were designed using Omnigraffle and Photoshop.

We built Twitter using Ruby on Rails because it allows us to work quickly and easily--our team likes to deploy features and changes multiple times per day. Rails provides skeleton code frameworks so we don't have to re-invent the wheel every time we want to add something simple like a sign in form or a picture upload feature.

How do you make money from Twitter?

Twitter has many appealing opportunities for generating revenue but we are holding off on implementation for now because we don't want to distract ourselves from the more important work at hand which is to create a compelling service and great user experience for millions of people around the world. While our business model is in a research phase, we spend more money than we make.

What's next for Twitter?

We continue to follow user behavior and pay close attention to feature requests. We launched our mobile site, m.twitter.com after getting lots of requests for this feature. However, we are also very much guided by our philosophy of keeping things simple and intuitive so we like to restrain ourselves with regard to features. That being said, people seem to be calling for more interesting ways to share feedback with one another and organize themselves and their updates into groups--we're paying attention to these requests.

We plan to build Twitter, Inc into a successful, revenue-generating company that attracts world-class talent with an inspiring culture and attitude towards doing business.

Source: TWITTER



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Mar 28, 2009

Social Networks that knited the global friendship's fabric

My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter...Image by luc legay via Flickr

Popular social networking sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Facebook, hi5, twitter, bebo, and etc. are changing the human fabric of the Internet World and have the potential to pay off big for investors too, I am one of the heavy user of Orkut and Facebook. Since then, I have made hundreds of firends from all over the world. Some are from the western side, some are from the eastern side and some are from the middle east. The more i know, the more i like them. These social networds, besides binding the social fabric, they also change the vast world into a global village.

Some of the well kown social networks which i often come across on internet are. Orkut, facebook, hi5, bebo, twiter, LinkedIn,

Orkut:

Orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. Orkut's social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before.

Orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes.

Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can read their profile and even see how they're connected to you through the friends network.

To join orkut, simply sign in with your Google Account and you can begin to create your own profile right away. If you do not have a Google Account yet, they will help you create one in minutes.

Its Mission is to help you create a closer, more intimate network of friends. They will put you on the path to social bliss soon.

You can register here: ZOLENGTHE.NET

Country wise top users as of March 27, 2009

Brazil = 49.67%
United States = 20.80%
India = 17.17%

Source: http://www.orkut.com/Main#MembersAll.aspx

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facebook | http://www.facebook.com


Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Facebook Principles

We built Facebook to make it easy to share information with your friends and people around you. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.

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Hi5

Launched in 2003, hi5 is now one of the world's largest social networks — ranked as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in over 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to comScore, more than 56 million individuals every month visit hi5, which is currently available in 37 language options (with more to come). We are a privately-held company, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

hi5 is the most globally diverse social networking site in the world, with over 80% of our users from outside the US. The hi5.com site was designed for this global audience from the beginning, and was the first in-language social networking site in many countries around the world. The site has been translated to over 40 languages and dialects (with more than 60 planned by the end of 2008). Whether delivering locally relevant applications and feature translations, offering in-language customer support, or securing regional media partnerships, we strive to provide services that are inviting, useable and meaningful for people in many different countries and cultures around the world.

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BEBO

Bebo is a popular social networking site which connects you to everyone and everything you care about. It is your life online - a social experience that helps you discover what's going on with your world and helps the world discover what’s going on with you.

Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways.

Bebo has sites all across the globe - US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.

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TWITTER

Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends

Why do so many people seem to like Twitter?

Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

Twitter's core technology is a device agnostic message routing system with rudimentary social networking features. By accepting messages from sms, web, mobile web, instant message, or from third party API projects, Twitter makes it easy for folks to stay connected.

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MYSAPCE

MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.

Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!

See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.

MySpace is for everyone:

* Friends who want to talk Online
* Single people who want to meet other Singles
* Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends
* Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree
* Business people and co-workers interested in networking
* Classmates and study partners
* Anyone looking for long lost friends!

We are a new site, developing new features as fast as we can. If you have suggestions or comments, please mail them to: contact.

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Jan 17, 2009

Tell a friend | One button redifines sharing

Dear friend, I hope you would be interested in telling your friend about your writings. Here I found one easy and handy way of doing so. Tellafriend.socialtwist.com and socialtwist.com (collectively referred to as "Site") owned by Pramati Technologies, Inc., ("Company") helps you to use Tell-A-Friend widget on your website or blog. Your use of Site will be subject to these Terms of Use below. We ask that you read these legally binding Terms of Use carefully before you select 'accept' because if you breach any of these Terms of Use, your authorization to use Site automatically terminates. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use please discontinue use of the Site services immediately. Site reserves the right to change or modify these Terms of Use, such change or modification will be effective upon the posting of new terms on the Site. You agree to be bound by any such posted changes. It is important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes.


















Implement in minutes You really don't need much technical expertise to use it on your blog. Bloggers and web administrators can do it in minutes. Login, customize (using a guided wizard), and add your code snippet to your site. That's all.

Versatile embedding of Tell-a-Friend Easily embed Tell-a-Friend in most blogging platforms and popular Content Management Systems (CMS). Currently supported platforms are: Wordpress engine, Wordpress.com (free accounts as well), Blogger/Blogspot, TextPattern, JRoller, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal, Joomla, Pligg, Mambo, and OSCommerce.

Highly customizable You can quickly customize the button type and size, the widget look and feel, the announce message per service, and the behavior of the widget. You can quickly choose from the wide range of buttons, select the widget color scheme, edit message templates apart from other changes that suit your site.

Light, speedy and compact Imagine using a widget that is light, loads faster than others, doesn't burden your site's performance and yet offers you a compelling UI which is liked by one and all. That's Tell-a-Friend.

Inviting button and intuitive user interface Everyone understands Tell a friend; buttons are designed to catch user attention. Mouse over on the button shows the range of services to communicate.

Sharing goes beyond bookmarking Unlike other sharing utilities, Tell-a-Friend stands unique to give you a single button which enables both one-to-one personal recommendations and social broadcasting. Tell-a-Friend is the only sharing widget to support Instant Messengers (chat) and personal messages to friends on social networks. That's clearly the best of word of mouth marketing rolled in one.

One-to-many broadcasting through social sites Sharing through social bookmarks, blogs, Content Management Systems (CMS), microblogs, and social networks is only possible through Tell-a-Friend.

Over a 40 services through which you can reach out to friends:

Email GMail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN/Windows Live Mail, Type Email Address.

IM Y! Messenger, GTalk, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM.

Blogs WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, MovableType, Xanga, Expression Engine, Joomla, Drupal, Textpattern

Social Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Indenti.ca, FriendFeed, MySpace

Bookmarks Del.icio.us, Digg, Slashdot, Technorati, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Buzz, Google, Blinklist, Facebook, Newsvine, Furl, MySpace, LinkedIn, Propeller

Go local. Make referrals more personal. Have Tell-a-Friend in the language of your site. Give your community of users the power to share and recommend your site and its content in their local language.

Analytics to monitor activity Find out how your viral campaign is doing through the usage statistics of your Tell-a-Friend account. Get details of the number of announcements made, which service is most popularly used, the spread of the usage of the various channels, and also daily, weekly and monthly usage trends.

Addressing privacy concerns Tell-a-Friend can access your contacts list from any of the services. However, usernames, passwords, and contact lists are not stored on our system or shared with anyone. Tell-a-Friend is also unique in transparently showing you a preview of the email that your friend will see before you send it.

Secure and scalable service Tell-a-Friend is hosted on Amazon's AWS and care is taken for it to be secure and scalable. Currently several thousands of sites are served and millions of messages have been announced.

Branding Tell-a-Friend to match your site Skin your widget, button and email template to look native to your site to give your user a seamless sharing experience. Don't lose the opportunity to promote your brand with each announcement that users make from your site.

Context-rich messages = Effective referrals Let users share a specific search result, a favorite movie, a liked product, or an interesting news story rather than just generic information about your site. As a publisher, give them more opportunities to share and help them make their announcements a lot more engaging and alluring for their friends.

Incentivize inviting friends Tell-a-Friend can power viral campaigns for product launches and other promotions. Enable rewards/loyalty programs, invite 'n' win contests. Give your users more reasons to spread the word.

Source: TELL A FRIEND SOCIAL TWIST



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Jan 14, 2009

Online Profits Contest: Win a Free Membership

Many people wrote emails to congratulate me for the launch of the Online Profits training program, saying that they think it is a excellent course, and that they would love to join, but they don’t have the funds to be able to.

Thinking about that I decided to run a contest giving away 10 free memberships (each one worth $288). Those free memberships will give you full access to the training program for 6 months.

How to Participate

The memberships will be given away in a random draw. In order to get your name included on the draw, all you have to do is to write a blog posts about Online Profits. There are no other requirements. You don’t need to write a positive review or anything.

If only 10 people end up writing the post, you automatically win. Even if 20 people enter the contest, you still have 50% chances of winning, and so on.

On the homepage of the site you can see all the information about the mentors, the training program, and the frequently asked questions. If you are sure you are going to write the post, I can also send you lessons 1 and 2 by email so that you can review the learning content (just email me asking for those).

The only limitation is this one: only one entry per person (not per blog), and only blogs with 50 or more RSS subscribers (to avoid people creating blogs today just to enter into the contest).

Once you wrote your post, just send me an email via the contact form with the URL of your post.


The Random Draw

The random draw will be done via the Random.org website, on Saturday (January 17). If you guys want I can also record a screencast while doing it to make the process transparent.

You can join the program anyway even if you plan to enter into the contest. If you end up as one of the winners I will just refund your membership fee.

Any questions or suggestions, just leave a comment below.

Update: If you can’t or don’t want to write a blog post, my friend John Chow is also running a Twitter contest for Online Profits. You can see the details here.

Source: DailyBlogTips

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