It was when the Library of Congress in the US announced two years ago that it would archive every single tweet that people became serious about social media… and more to the point their data. The idea of all that data being saved made many people more reticent when posting their 140 characters on Twitter. [...]
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 [...]
If your conference doesn’t have a Twitter wall, it’s probably crap
I’m rushing out this editorial on my way to the Open Data Cities conference in Brighton, a noble event that I will learn more about on arrival. Attending events these days is a very different experience from a few years ago because of the huge role social media plays in making them engaging. If a [...]
800 jobs up for grabs at Shoreditch’s Silicon Milkroundabout May weekend
More than 105 start-ups and established brands such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Songkick and Mind Candy are joining 105 start-ups in London’s Shoreditch to offer 800 jobs to the brightest of UK talent. They will get together over the weekend of May 26/27th 2012 where 3,000 potential applicants will be introduced to a number of [...]
The 1992 vision of Mondo 2000 was right and wrong, but also true
I picked up my copy of Mondo 2000 – User’s guide to a new edge (Thames and Hudson 1992) the other day. What an optimistic and anarchic place the soon-to-be digital world was then, and indeed for the next few years. Fax machines were vogue, mobile phones were still big and barely anyone was using [...]
