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Twitter followers drop to zero… for everyone.

sblecher — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:45:23 +0000

This Monday Twitter fixed a pretty terrible bug that allowed people to force you to follow them. By simply tweeting “accept nytimes” the New York Times would be added as your follower. After the bug was resolved, for a brief moment everyone’s follower count went to zero. It made celebrities think Twitter had been hacked and digital marketer’s all over feel like they were having a heart attack. But rest easy everyone, you’re followers are back. Can you believe how far Twitter has come to get this reaction? We can.

How many people really use Twitter?

sblecher — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:34:38 +0000

According to a research study performed by the Pew Internet and American Life Project:

Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.

The median age of a Twitter user is 31, which has remained stable over the past year. The median age for MySpace is now 26, down from 27 in May 2008, and the median age for LinkedIn is now 39, down from 40. Facebook, however, is graying a bit: the median age for this social network site is now 33, up from 26 in May 2008.

Read more at: Twitter and Status Updating

Secret Joys of Twitter

sblecher — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:36:28 +0000

There are leaders, and there are followers — and in the world of Twitter, there’s no shame in being the latter. Different people use Twitter in different ways, and for some, the joy isn’t so much in the speaking (”tweeting”) as the listening.

Some vocal folks who we (and lots of other people) follow:

Pete Cashmore (@mashable) knows what’s going on in social media and often knows what’s about to go on, too
Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) posts frequently, not only on his own book publishing company, but on the state of publishing, software, the open source movement, and “Government 2.0″
Guardian Tech (@guardiantech): the UK newspaper’s take on tech, and its impact on culture, is broad and usually interesting, ranging from hospital equipment to comics as well as computers and the Internet

Who do you follow? We’re @digitalpulpinc.