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- Twitter during a plane crash - and implications for newsDecember 22 2008
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The ability to instantly update was highlighted at the weekend, when Mike Wilson (@2drinksbehind) tweeted ‘Holy fucking shit I wasbjust in a plane crash!’
As he continued to post updates it emerged that it was the second crash he’s experienced, some of his experiences and possible causes (flagged up as such), and the fact that Continental Airlines wouldn’t serve drinks to the passengers once they were all safely away from the plane.
Silicon Valley Insider has screenshots of the whole thing, and there’s interesting commentary from Loic Le Meur, Jeff Jarvis, Mashable, Laurel Papworth, and
- Making charity happen via TwitterDecember 19 2008
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Twitter marketer and celebrity Laura Fitton (@Pistachio) has come up with a great charity campaign over Christmas, having realised that just $2 from each of her followers would mean $25,000 - enough for a water project for a school or hospital by Charity Water.
The impetus for this is the fact that 5,000 children die every day from the lack of clean drinking water.
And as a bonus, if $10,000 plus gets raised, it’ll be matched by Tipjoy and Betaworks. Plus all fees are being waived for micropayments via Twitter for this case by Tipjoy.
But Laura puts it far more passionately and eloquently than I can (plus there are more details on the charity, payments, and even an easy form to use), so
If that isn’t enough, Squidoo is also giving money to charity - Every time you
- Money arrives on Twitter with TwitpayDecember 18 2008
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Rather than making money from Twitter advertising, Twitpay allows you to transfer money to any other Twitter user with a simple Tweet.
'Money' by jenn_jenn on Flickr (CC Licence)
Send an @ message, for example ‘@badgergravling twitpay $5 for running 140char.com’ or via the twitpay site.
Adding funds to Twitpay can be done via Paypal, and if you’ve got over $10 in your account, you can spend it as an Amazon gift card, a donation to a Twitpay charity, or to Twitpay itself - meanwhile the service takes a flat rate of $0.01 for every $1
It’s a stunningly simple idea to have a ‘Paypal for Twitter’, that came out of a startup weekend. You can read more about how the idea came about on the FAQs page.
What’s interesting is that this is a new approach to providing a monetisable service via Twitter, and possibly creating a new Twitter economy. The main question will be whether enough people have an urge or reason to transfe
- Major microblogging catch-up…December 17 2008
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The only thing that moves as fast as Twitter is the blog coverage of Twitter. So much that even a day away from blogging leads to a pile of content which, if it were in print, would be threatening to trap me in an avalanche of theories about monetisation…but on the bright side:
- A brilliant post by Rohit Bhargava included the following ‘5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance‘
5 stages of Twitter Acceptance by Rohit Bhargava
- Follower counts will go down as Twitter releases a change to remove deleted and suspended users. Just hope I’ve avoided too many suspended users considering I’d just reach 1925 followers in the
- Why MLM will kill Twitter with their business model…December 12 2008
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Interesting article, and a chance to test the PressThis bookmarklet for Wordpress 2.7:
Looking at how multi level marketers and business models that can extract value can have a major effect on Twitter, particularly as spam models only need a relatively small conversion rate, and people are so eager to retweet a message without examining it!