Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
In the beginning there was but one tweet, and no-one could have foreseen the might marketing machine that Twitter would become.
Now, with sponsored tweets and third party text ads, it’s easy to forget the innocence of Twitter all those years ago.
Or would be, if Mashable hadn’t produced this fab infographic to remind us 
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By: Stephen Bray
I haven’t thought lots about Twitter recently. I haven’t been using it – or so I thought?
There have been lots of reasons for this. Firstly a busy business and family life reduces the time I can devote to Twitter, which can be a distraction.
Secondly, I find that once I’m following more than a few hundred people it becomes difficult to relate directly to most of them. British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized that “the limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size and relates to all human relationships, not just Twitter. If you have a respectable neocortex you may even be able to relate to as many as 150 people.
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At a speech in Kuwait this February British Prime Minister David Cameron stated:
‘The Internet and social media’ is a powerful tool in the hands of citizens, not a means of repression. It belongs to the people who’ve had enough of corruption, of having to make do with what they’re given, of having to settle for second best.” Perhaps this is what bothers him?
No matter, in doing so he echoed some of the sentiments I’ve made here in some earlier posts. The Internet is a great leveller and no part more so than Social Media. Since it’s inception we’ve seen Twitter become much more than a place where in 140 characters one can pitch the latest offer to a gullible audience.
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I’ve noticed a trend on twitter recently. Why is Amy Winehouse/Xfactor/Big Brother trending when there are more important things going on in the world?
I find this quite sad. It implies that we can only be single minded in our pursuits on twitter (and by extension, in life) and to have room for interest in popular culture is somehow inferior.
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It was a sad day indeed when Google removed the Twitter real time results from their search results – but it did seem a little like overkill that they removed ALL real time results – no news, blogs, or anything else!
Rumour has it that they’re going to be replacing the real time results with results from Google+, which I have to say is a brave move if it’s true, given that Google+ has some way to go to reach critical mass.
So, by now, we all know the name of the footballer who allegedly had an affair with a model. Right? Proof positive that injunctions are now useless, the story is now in the public domain and that Twitter rules. Hurray, it’s the dawn of a new era!
Except it’s not quite that simple. Yes, the papers now feel confident in printing that he took out an injunction against the story being published, but they still can’t print the story they want to – otherwise The Sun would have a lot more to say than “It’s Ryan Giggs” today.
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By Stephen Bray
It seems like years since I wrote about Professor Scott Lucas using Twitter to collect and disseminate information about the world of international relations using Twitter. It was January.
The reason it seems so far back, no doubt, is that since posting the article the areas to which Lucas focuses most of his energy have been plunged into turmoil with Twitter now playing the part of a weapon of revolutionary force.
People in Egypt, Libya and Syria, for example have used both Facebook and Twitter to organise demonstrations and in the case of Libya this has escalated into a civil war.
Many moons ago in 2008 I teamed up with @alfaguru to develop a system that allowed you to back up your Twitter followers, friends messages and DMs – we called it Tweetake.
Because both of us have real, paying work to do, we’ve not promoted it as much as we should, so it’s always lovely to see that many people use it every day.
Every few days someone drops me a line and says nice things about it, and occasionally people even donate towards future development which is nice.
But I didn’t imagine anyone would write a blog post about it!
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As if you didn’t know it already, today is International Women’s Day, billed as “a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.”
At NikkiPilkington.com, we’re celebrating some of the fab women we follow on Twitter and hope you will too!
First we have the fantastic @helenstothard – Helen is our UK VA and handles our admin, accounts and most importantly debt collection. She also organises Nikki’s schedule and reminds her where she should be and what she should be doing. On top of that and her other clients, she is part of a fantastic network of VAs so if you’re a Virtual Assistant, or would like to be one, follow her right away!
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