Angel investor, Ron Conway, is bullish on Twitter. In the video below from last month's Chirp Conference, Conway tells Robert Scoble that "there is boundless opportunity" in the Twitter ecosphere. Conway says, "We're not even through the first inning of how big Twitter can be." [via Silicon Prairie News] …
Tacoma’s Twitter-Friendly Hotel
According to Tacoma News Tribune, Twitter, tweets and a tweet-up are good for business. The paper came to this conclusion after 120 people gathered at Hotel Murano in downtown Tacoma last night for the city's first major commercial tweet-up. "It's fun if you can meet people face-to-face," said Dina Nishioka, spokeswoman for Provenance Hotels, the Portland-based owners of downtown Tacoma's Hotel Murano. "This is great …
Celebs Sell Subs On Twitter And TV
Subway is giving away $10 Subway gift cards to people who participate in its "Tweet to Eat" promotion. According to Media Post's Marketing Daily, each day during the promo a famous Subway fan encourages people to use Twitter to weigh in on why they are "a great fit" for the Subway brand. Participants submit their responses to @subwayfreshbuzz on Twitter. Also during April, two new 30-second broadcast/cable …
Who Cares What You’re Doin’?
And Twitter get's brushed off the plate... [via Rum Bunter and The Denver Egotist] …
Hide And Go Tweet
JetBlue's senior VP-marketing and commercial, Marty St. George, decided to test agencies currently vying for the airline's marketing account by asking on their Twittership. I don't know which agencies JetBlue is testing, nor how they faired. What I do know is that agency people who "get" Twitter jumped on this loose ball. In response to Bastholm's line of questioning, St. George made it clear, JetBlue isn't looking …
The Ability To Make A Lasting Impression In 140 Characters Is Part Of The Job
BFG Communications in Savannah is once again looking to hire an Assistant Content Manager. Last time BFG did that, they asked prospects to contact them via Twitter. Doing so led to a storm of publicity for the company and a new employee in Hal Thomas. Now there's another opening and again BFG wants to hear from prospects on Twitter. One new applicant, Sam the Butcher from the Denver area offers this video (originally …
Today In Twitterverse: Past Experience Belongs In A Bio
Todd Moritz of Substance says what needs to be said. …
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Today In Twitterverse: United Nations of Micromessaging
By monitoring billions of conversations happening on blogs, social sites and forums Sysomos "brings business intelligence to social media." At the moment, the company is offering a closer look at Twitter users. Sysomos discovered in the midst of their research that almost no one is using the geo-location API tool that Twitter launched last August. Only 0.23% of all Tweets are tagged with geo-location reference …
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Where The Free Gum Goes
Paul Ramirez a.k.a. @pablorazzi on Twitter is a photographer and gadget geek in Phoenix, AZ. He's also an entrant in Dentyne's latest promotion on Twitter. I know this because I searched the hashtag #emptycupholder and found his contest entry (see photo) along with many others. The way the contest works is consumers snap a photo of their vehicle's empty cup holder and then upload it to Twitpic, using the …
Fuel Industries Proactively Organizes CES Data
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a big time trade show with thousands of attendees from all over the world. Which makes it tricky to keep up with. That's why Fuel Industries in Ottawa, Ontario invented TweetYouThere. Nick Iannitti of Fuel describes it as a simple social media tool to measure which brands, trends and discussions are winning out on each day--and one that can be repurposed as a backbone to …
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