Comments on: Twitter Takes Over Facebook in Email Marketing

By: hummingbird twitter

hummingbird twitter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:52:15 +0000

Twitter is a good way to rapidly connect with other people, create tremendous online visibility, drive traffic,. and even market and make sales. The problem with twiter is that many people mess up their marketing strategy from the beginning. The good news here is that makes it easy for you to stand out when you do it properly.

By: tweetadder

tweetadder — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:58:18 +0000

To effectively use Twitter for marketing, without spending all your time on Twitter, it’s required to set up a strategy. An effective system that builds your Twitter following will turn you as an authority in your niche, and will effectively promote your product, service, business.

By: Anindya

Anindya — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:34:23 +0000

@Roman,
Thanks for your perspectives. Yes, the bots are a pain and I am lately seeing a trend where the “whales” are unfollowing their entire follower list just to get rid of the bots. Your post made me understand the enormity of the issue.
Yes, twitter could be difficult to monetise; are they even going to try?

As a user, though, if I control the quality rather than quality of those I follow, I should be alright; don’t you think?
@canindya

By: Navaneeth

Navaneeth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:54:47 +0000

Google should buy Twitter

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000

We work on Twitter marketing but my position within the firm is to be a chief paranoia i.e. to explore ways of how Twitter could crush or fail. Right now there’s about 25% of all tweets coming from bots and these are only from the bots tweeting 150++ times a day, every 9 minutes or so. There are so many bots tweeting less than 150 times a day so I am afraid the real number could be much higher.

So what would happen if “my bot” tweets 100 times in order to attract the customer and you come and say, I will do it 120 times for 10% discount. Then I retort with 200 times 10 bots 20% discount etc., you can see where I am going with this. Soon, the boots would tweet to the bots and re-tweet to all these tweeturls, twitterfalls etc., outside.

Twitter is a mess on purpose. They monitor everything and wait for the best offer is MHO

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:46:24 +0000

Well, why would FB really share the reason behind buying FF? Maybe they are working on a secret project..maybe they are planning to introduce FF as the real time conversation tracking engine?

By: The Unigon

The Unigon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:26:15 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=116581

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“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”
[/quote]

Does *that* say another story? Friendfeed has only 13 employees (http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009/07/ben-darnell-joins-friendfeed-ben.html), and the team could just be one of the most power-packed, sought-out team in the world right now.

If I had the financial power to buy a company, and get that kind of team in the bargain; but of course I would. Who wouldn’t?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:47:56 +0000

A lot of what you have said is hypothesis which hasn’t been proved (for instance zuckerberg knows what’s the right direction).
As far as twitter monetizing it’s assets is concerned, I do believe that they are currently in asset building stage..hopefully they will soon roll out advertising (which is what they mentioned in the leaked docs)

By: Aditya Rao

Aditya Rao — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:10:35 +0000

Hi nice article You have given a new angle to my mind about the deal. But …

When exactly will Twitter open to brand marketers / advertisers?
How long can they wait till they find a monetisation strategy?

Dont get me wrong, I myself advocate Twitter more than Facebook. But I think despite revolutionising the way we share information in the past two years, they are losing uot on innovation.

Agreed, the Twitter ecosystem is growing with a wide variety of apps and third party services, but what new thing have we seen from Twitter?

facebook might be copying / buying Friendfeed but Zuckenberg atleast know whats the right direction.