Tweets

If VCs are so clever, how come nobody follows them on Twitter?

How many of you are following venture capitalist companies on Twitter? Not many I would suggest and I doubt you would be surprised if I told you most VC companies on Twitter are utter rubbish. VCs, I know, I know, are the devil but it is beyond belief that they treat social media with disdain [...]

Brands need 7,500 Tweets to rank in the Top Five results on search engines

A new study has revealed, unsurprisingly perhaps, that lots of tweets means that brands rank higher in search engines. Conducted using data from digital and search agency Branded3’s Twitter petition site, Twitition.com, and Google ranking data, the study analysed a sample of the site’s 1.4 million Twitter followers, 7.6 million signatures across 198,000 ‘Twititions’. According [...]

Is social capital the new currency or a pile of Somaliland shillings?

Last summer I had an adventure and flew to Addis Ababa from Mumbai and then travelled through Ethiopia on African buses to the Red Sea and spent a week in Somaliland on the way. Right up there with the best of life. I had to hire a soldier for $15 per day, had a few [...]