Man loses Iphone prototype in German beer bar and gets into lots of trouble. Lufthansa pounce on the opportunity and offer him free flight to German beer festival. Cleverly hijacking a piece of news using social media channels to push it out on twitter / twitpic. Love it.
I was thinking this morning about the new Twitter ads, and i’m sure they’ll take off. But I think there’s another revenue stream which Twitter could be investigating which could make them many, many millions.
One of the frustrations for search marketers with Twitter is those pesky short urls. They just don’t provide any link love. Redirects through Bit.ly, and “nofollow” attribute in the link source code combine to ensure that beyond direct traffic driving, the links are worthless in search marketing terms. That’s a whole load of lost link love.
Recently Bit.ly launched their ‘pro’ service, which allows brands to create their own short url, which for vanity purposes is nice (Techcrunch use one, along with about 6,000 other brands). It’s pretty smooth… try typing the http://techcrunch.com domain into Tweetdeck to see it in action, but it still does nothing to boost page rank whilst the links are “nofollow”.
So here’s my model I’d implement if I was at the helm:
For Twitter to do this, they’d need to cut the cord with Bit.ly… wait a minute.. what’s this on Techcrunch yesterday?!
Watch this space…
Great piece on Mashable about how Twitter is being used by the film industry to predict box offices, with better accuracy than any other existing measure. Further proof of the power of the crowd.
T lists provides visitors with the tools to find and apply to join twitter lists. So for example, if you want to follow tech journalists, you can do that search, find lists and who curates them, and then apply to join directly from the website (no guarantee you’ll get in though!). Handy.
Twitter Announces @Anywhere Platform At SXSW, a new tool for publishers to simply re-create the twitter experience on their own platform. Whereas this functionality has (kind of) been available for a while through the API, the new platform will allow anyone to integrate with “just a few lines of javascript”. This could prove really interesting.
There’s a growing fascination with how you can make things happen in the real world from your computer, and vice versa. on a couple of guys who created a popcorn machine that will make a single piece of popcorn every time someone tweets the word popcorn. Watch the video below.
allows twitter users to order a range of jewellery featuring their twitter username. god knows why.
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Dont Tell Ashton - The worlds first Twitter artwork
Really nice idea… Twitter users sign up to be part of a piece of art, and the prominence of their photo is determined by the number of followers. It’s named ‘Don’t tell Ashton’ because he’s supposedly the only Twitter user with a big enough following to completely fill the picture frame.
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I’m on the worlds first artwork made by Twitter users. to JOIN go to http://www.donttellashton.com / Just @donttellashtonless than a minute ago via web
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