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A Headline That Needs No Body

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Twitter tweets are 40% ‘babble’ A figure that does not include tweets of self-promotion. Sphere: Related Content Related posts Twitter Me Not (0) From Twitter to Quitter (4) “two idiots with a video camera” (2)

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Twitter Me Not

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The other day a former student sent me a message. More accurately, I received the message that “[name of student] wants to keep up with you on Twitter.”  I deleted it.  I have nothing against the smart, hard-working student who caused the message to be sent.  I have zero interest–I have negative interest–in keeping up [...]

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From Twitter to Quitter

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Reuters reports that Twitter’s retention rate after one month is about 40 percent.  In other words 6 out of 10 new users stop using it within 30 days.  Facebook’s current retention rate is about 70 percent.  I understand how a user could find it difficult to compete with celebrity tweets from Oprah, Miley Cyrus, and [...]

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“two idiots with a video camera”

Friday, April 17, 2009

The food-prep gross-out video that two Domino’s employees–make that two former Domino’s employees–posted this week on YouTube provides much at which to marvel. How could these employees not realize Domino would learn about the video?  It’s hard to fathom anyone not getting that, um, hundreds of millions of people use the Internet and these are [...]

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