March 1 2006 Facebook launces status update July 10 Jaiku micro-blogging July 13 2006 Twitter The first major micro-blogging service launches Twitterers use mobile phones, instant-messaging software, or Twitter’s own website to send and receive 140-character messages, called twitters or tweets. Tweets–which mostly answer Twitter’s prompt “What are you doing?”–are routed to individual friends,...
Twitter Vs. Friendfeed: these sites offer great value and have different uses. Twitter has been around for almost 2 years and friendfeed is less than a year. While many frustrated twitter (whale/bird go away) and propeller peeps say that friendfeed is a twitter killer; I disagree. The 2 services are only slightly similar. Friendfeed...
10 Useful Stats About Twitter
Follow @rohitbhargava if you liked this post! Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things...
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