Tag Archive: Twitter

Does the new Twitter Contributor feature make a difference? No

Mashable caught the first screenshots of the new Contributors feature allowing a pseudo dashboard for multiple people to post to a single account with varying rights.  The article does a good description of the feature sets. My opinion is that Twitter is too late to the game in the corporate space allowing third-party developers to…

My notes and commentary on “Twitter Basics and Beyond” at #IMSTL

I am sitting in the session hosted by Mark Murnahan, author of Twitter for Business – Twitter for Friends, to get his take on how businesses can use Twitter to spread reach and increase their audience. Benefits of Twitter: building relationships networking and referrals – it is not about direct sales all the time, but…

How Twitter got lists wrong – issue #3

Finding an authority for the lists I want to follow seems to be a huge effort.  Of course, you always go back to those you already follow, as you consider them authorities in some way already.  So you browse the lists they have created, but the remainder out there are ignored.  I talked briefly about…

How Twitter got lists wrong – issue #2

Yesterday I covered Issue #1 with lists.  This one is much simpler.  You cannot add yourself to a list.  How can anyone in a company make a list to share and then add themselves?  Can’t happen. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?  Look at the list I created for TheSocialGeeks.  I created it so I can’t…