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Womens World Cup Sets a New Record on Twitter

July 17, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

From Techcrunch:

After an epic run, the U.S. women’s soccer team succumbed to Japan today in the final of the Women’s World Cup tournament. And if you were paying attention to your Twitter stream today, you may have seen an influx of Tweets about the game, which ended in a penalty shootout. Twitter just Tweeted that the Women’s World Cup final scored a new record with 7,196 Tweets per second. Even U.S. President Barack Obama joined in Tweeting about the game. And from the Tweet, “today’s end to the Paraguay/Brazil game is now 2nd with 7,666 TPS.”

Techcrunch: Women’s World Cup Soccer Final Scores New Twitter Record With 7,196 Tweets Per Second

Happy Birthday Twitter!

July 15, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

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Google Announces the Google+ Project

June 28, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

CNN’s Interview with Tumblr’s David Karp

June 23, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

Twitter Partners with Yahoo! Japan

June 20, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

Twitter has announced a partnership with Yahoo Japan to bring its real-time search results into Yahoo’s search results. From CMSWire:

Twitter is aggressively expanding into the Japanese market, in particular partnering with mobile networks and portals in the country. Twitter’s latest partnership involves adding live feeds in Yahoo! Japan search results. Is Twitter doing this as a means to expand into Asian territories just as certain Asian microblogging services are planning a coup in the English-language market?

The Wang Gongquan Approach to Breaking Up

June 20, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

Chinese Billionaire Wang Gongquan is planning to leave his wife for his mistress, and apparently, he wants the world to know it. He decided to use Sina Weibo to make the announcement. From the Wall St. Journal:

When billionaire Wang Gongquan, one of China’s most famous investors, decided to leave his wife for his mistress, he broke the news to family and friends—and hundreds of thousands of strangers—in a message online.

“I am giving up everything and eloping with Wang Qin,” said a post from Mr. Wang’s account on Sina Weibo, the most popular of China’s Twitter-like Web-messaging services. “I feel ashamed and so am leaving without saying goodbye. I kneel down and beg forgiveness!”

Mr. Wang’s May 16 confession went viral. The 49-year-old’s post was re-published by other users about 60,000 times within 24 hours. Other bigwigs felt compelled to weigh in. “Please get in touch with me as soon as possible!” Mr. Wang’s friend, Pan Shiyi, the billionaire chairman of Soho China Ltd., one of Beijing’s biggest real-estate developers, wrote to him on Weibo. “Your family is incredibly anxious…Please contact them.”

Tumblr Surpasses WordPress

June 16, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

From Mashable:

According to their respective websites, 4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com.

In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. At the time of this writing, the total blog ticker on its site read about three times that at 20,873,182 — beating out WordPress.com’s current count by about 85,000 blogs.

WordPress.com’s count doesn’t include sites that people host themselves with the open source software via WordPress.org, but given that the hosted service had about a four-year headstart, surpassing it in number is still an impressive feat for Tumblr.

Very impressive, indeed. Congrats to the team at Tumblr.

Sina Weibo is Coming to the Enterprise

June 13, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

Sina is testing a version of their popular microblogging service for the enterprise, according to CMSWire:

“We earlier learned that Chinese microblogging service Weibo is planning an English-language launch, and will possibly compete with Twitter. With 140 million users versus Twitter’s 200 million, Weibo might be on the way to critical mass, especially with the sheer number of potential Chinese users outside of the mainland. But with new enterprise features being tested, it seems Weibo wants to make sure they launch with a bang.”

Launching both an English and enterprise version of Weibo would not only put Sina in competition with Twitter, but with Yammer, Socialtext, and other enterprise microblogging companies. It’s shaping up to be an interesting summer, indeed.

Enterprise Microblogging Checklist

June 10, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

David Strom’s checklist for enterprise microblogging tools.

CNBC Asks if Twitter is Bad for America

June 10, 2011 in News with 0 Comments

CNBC had an interesting poll this morning on Squawk on the Street. Because of the recent Twitter photo scandal with Congressman Anthony Weiner, CNBC asked viewers whether on not Twitter was bad for America. The following is a conversation on the subject between Simon Hobbes, Melissa Lee, Darren Rovell, and Cindy Perman:

Just because one congressman decided to send pics of his weiner (no pun intended) via Twitter, it doesn’t make the Twitter guilty of anything. If he had sent these photos via Facebook, email, or any of the other means of online communication, does that make them all bad for America? I think the assumption is ridiculous. The use of any type of social media requires the user to have a certain level of personal responsibility (for example, you shouldn’t send naked photos of yourself to others).

Of course, if you would like to share this poll with others, CNBC has provided a “Tweet” link on the same page.

What do you think? Is Twitter destroying the USA? Is Twitter to blame for Anthony Weiner’s scandal?

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