I’ve dugg up some cool articles from the Internet about Twitter:
What is Twitter? 69 Percent of Adults Don’t Really Know
You would think that with an estimated $48 million of free media coverage per month, most people would at least have a pretty good idea about what Twitter is, even if they aren’t users themselves. But according to a new study out today from Harris Interactive, 69 percent of adults don’t know enough about Twitter “to have an opinion about it.”
ClickableNow: Add Links to Your Twitter Background
ClickableNow, a product of SHIFT communications and Whitley Media, is about to mix up the Twitter background space with their new service that promises active links in your Twitter background. Marketers, advertisers, and hyper-linked Twitterers can rejoice, your backgrounds are now clickable (sort of).
Digg on Twitter: A Powerful RSS Reader for the Lazy
Digg is getting in on the act, launching separate Twitter accounts that you can follow for each of their different news sections. Each time a story reaches the Digg front page, it will be broadcast to one main account – Digg Homepage – as well as to the account representing the category the item was in, like Technology, Science, or Offbeat.
UK Government Officials Get a Guide to Using Twitter
UK government officials won’t have to rely on randomly tweeting without any official guidance anymore. Neil Williams, the Head of Corporate Digital Channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills just published a first draft of an official guide to using Twitter for UK government officials. The guide clocks in at 20 pages, 5,392 words and 36,215 characters – or approximately 259 tweets. The guide explains what Twitter and related social media tools are and how to use them at a very basic level. One section of the guide also explains third-party tools like bit.ly, monitter, and tweetbeep.com.
The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler
Twitter now has a brand spankin’ new homepage. Of course, if you’re a regular Twitter user, you’re rarely going to see it because you’re already logged in. But for the 5 billion+ people Twitter has yet to convert, it provides the company’s big chance to get them to sign up and stay on their website.
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