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State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report
weet the State of Twittersphere Report Taking a page from Technorati and their state of the blogosphere report that reviews survey data from a few hundred bloggers, we're publishing the "State of the Twittersphere" report. This is our first report, for Q4 2008. One thing that is different about ...
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Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
scobleizer.com — Since I’ve been blogging eight years this month I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my... blog and how I want to do things differently in 2009. I told Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch , that I wonder if I’ve made smart time ... (more) Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
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Why I’m Giving Twitter Grader’s “State of the Twittersphere” a B+
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Thanks to the high number of people that use HubSpot’s Twitter Grader tool, the company is able to provide us with the first "State of the Twittersphere" report. Analyzing 600,000 Twitter profiles should provide enough valuable data on how we use Twitter–although keep reading for my concern on this–and the main findings include: Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008 An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day 35% of Twitter users have 10 or ...

Linkpost | 12.23.2008
TechBlog — ... - Study says Twitter has 4-5 million users, compared to Facebook's 140 million. Also State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report Posted by Dwight at December 23, 2008 09:54 AM Comments Post a comment Please use a valid e-mail address . We don't harvest addresses, you will not be spammed and your address will not be publicly visible. But if I have a question about your comment, I need to be able to contact you. Thank you. URL: Remember Me? Yes No Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) E-mail this entry Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):

News Bits: Twitter 30x Smaller Than Facebook, Report Says
Contentinople: — Marketing firm HubSpot today released its first " State of the Twittersphere " report, showing wildly different statistics for super-secret Twitter Inc. than we've seen for more traditional social networking sites. While Facebook reports having 140 million active users and growing at a rate of 600,000 new accounts per day, Twitter has 4 million to 5 million users and grows at a rate of 5,000 to 10,000 per day, says the report, which was compiled using HubSpot's Twitter Grader tool to examine 500,000 Twitter accounts. And the differences go ...

Norad tracks Santa -- and now on Twitter
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... , has just published its first short State of the Twittersphere Report. It estimates that 5-10,000 new accounts are being opened each day, and that 70% of Twitter users joined this year. ...

Why you should follow everyone who follows you on Twitter
Webware.com — ... In fact, online marketing firm Hubspot released a report titled "State of the Twittersphere" recently, and found that there's a "strong correlation between the number of people you follow and the number of followers you have." ...

Measuring the 'Oprah Effect' on Twitter
Today @ PC World — ... . Those figures come from looking at the progression of user ID numbers assigned to new accounts. Those numbers may or may not be completely sequential, but they can at least provide some sort of rough framework. Put into perspective, 5,000 to 10,000 new Twitter accounts were created on a daily basis in late '08, according to a " State of the Twittersphere " report compiled last year. Twitter usage, of course, ...

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furbo.org 12/11/2008 — A friend of mine recently commented that native Twitter applications are the new flashlights . It’s true, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise: consider the number of web apps that proliferated before the advent of the native SDK.  ...
Daily Tidbits: Seventy percent of all Twitter users signed up in 2008CNET News.com 12/23/2008
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Man Tweets From Plane CrashToday @ PC World 12/23/2008
Continental passenger users Twitter to detail his account of Saturday's accident.
Valley Buzz: Web Addicts at War, the Short, Skinny Tail and MoreYahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 12/23/2008
Valley blogger Om Malik just sent a very sweet Twitter that read, “San Francisco on Holiday Break feels like the small cute town it used to be. Everyone is being so nice to each other.” Well, mostly.Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has picked a
Santa's on Google Earth so he must be real, right?CNET News.com 12/23/2008
Anxious Christmas revelers can track Santa's journey on Google maps, iGoogle, Santa Cams, mobile phones and Twitter.
Plane Crash Survivor Twitters Eyewitness AccountInformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/24/2008
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