140conf: See you in New York next week?

Written on 10th June 2009                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Next week we will be attending Jeff Pulver’s 140Conference (@140conf) in New York!

We will be blogging our asses of to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Jack, founder of Twitter, is speaking and so is everybody else.

Want to join us at 140conf? Want to see @Wyclef Jean being interviewed on-stage by @sacca? Want to find out why @fredwilson invested in Twitter? Want to hear the story behind the sale of CNNBRK to CNN? James Cox (@imajes) will tell you all about it.

We have one VIP ticket to give away to our readers.
But you will have to earn it! (more…)

"jeff pulver", 140conf, blog, conference, investments, speak, ticket, tweet, tweeting, tweets, twitter

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Chris Sacca: how you should use Twitter

Written on 20th April 2009                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Guest blogger, sharing views on The Next Web

Article written by Dutch problogger Ernst-Jan Pfauth

At The Next Web, Chris Sacca came up with a brilliant metaphor that you should keep in mind whenever you’re tweeting and blogging.

There are 700 people in this room. If you were standing on stage, you would be quite nervous: shaking a bit, maybe with a dry throat. When having such a large audience, you will sure try to entertain or inspire them. We tend to forget that we have a large audience on Twitter too. So before you tweet ask yourself: am I providing value? Will it put a smile on someones face? Am I expanding someones horizon? Otherwise, don’t write it.

There are lots of ‘how to twitter’ posts on the web but I guess this is the one everyone should read first…

Chris Sacca at The Next Web Conference. Photo Flickr / Anne Helmond

About the author: Ernst-Jan used to be the editor in chief of The Next Web. He’s currently blogging for Dutch quality newspaper nrc.next.

audience, chris sacca, Inspiration, tweets, twitter

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Yesterday was a 1,036,757 tweets day

Written on 29th August 2008                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Earlier this week, an interesting Twitter tracking tool from Ireland launched. It’s called Tweetrush and it shows exactly how active you and I are on the microblogging service. After months of guessing about how popular the service really is, this tool gives us the Gnip-based truth (Guh-nip is a service that makes it easy to aggregate user data). Here’s last week’s amount of tweets:

Some other info Tweetrush offers: hourly averages, top tweeters (somebody already tweeted 113 times today), a personal statistics page, and the amount of active tweeters (199,022 yesterday) . The last number surprised me, I expected a higher number than that. Anyhow, these 199,022 Twitter users tweeted on average (1,036,757/ 199,022) five times. That makes me a bad Twitter user, as I tweet four times a day (sorry about that). Check your numbers here.

The two things Tweetrush doesn’t include, are the direct messages and tweets from protected users. Thus the statistics Tweetrush provide only give an idea of Twitter as a one-to-many tool. That means Twitter is actually more popular than this statistics tool shows us, since many people use it as an alternative for SMS text messages (Well, at least they do in the US, Canada, and India).

Tweetrush was powered by the developers of Rush Hour, a service that will provide real time action and event based analytics in the near future.

Ireland, rush hour, statistics, tweetrush, tweets, twitter

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