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Twitter can be a lot of things for a lot of different people. However, according to online ad network Chitika, more of them want news than anything else. Chitika released results from a study of its users, looking at what Twitter users want.
Chitika categorized the sites that get the most links from Twitter. Here’s how it shakes out by genre according to the ad network:
An interesting topic was discussed at the BlogWorld Expo in a session called the "Death and Rebirth of Journalism," which Murdok attended.
Blogging, social networking and email newsletters all have one thing in common, they fall under the umbrella of Internet marketing.
(Coverage of the BlogWorld conference continues at Murdok Videos. Keep an eye on Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.)
In the session "Internet Marketing for Smart People," the panel discussed the various ways to reach an audience online.
Security company Trusteer Research issued a security advisory this week, dealing with a stealth new Zeus/Zbot phishing attack, which is aimed at harvesting enterprise log-in credentials for web banking, financial, HR, and SaaS accounts.
Google’s Matt Cutts has posted a new video talking about how Google deals with geographic targeting. This is a subject he has tackled on more than one occasion in the past, but in this latest one, he is elaborating on it a bit more, and explains that Google is looking more and more at this stuff as time goes on.
Regardless of what some individuals and marketers seem to think, the point of Twitter is not to amass as many followers as possible. Experts discussed this and other no-nos – along with what you should do – at BlogWorld during a session titled "The Twitter Game – How To ‘Play’ Social Networking And Why It’s A Bad Idea."
Update: Kevin Rose is now saying that his WeFollow Twitter directory will now be "more closely linked" with Digg as they "experiment with user influence as it applies to the Twitter universe." In a company blog post, he writes:
One of the largest click fraud rings ever detected, originating from China, has been shut down by click fraud monitoring firm Anchor Intelligence.
"This is really the first time anyone has ever been able to catch click fraudsters ‘in the act.’ Anchor has identified fraudsters down to the publisher site, IPs used (likely via botnets), and even the names and address of some perpetrators," an Anchor spokesperson told Murdok.
After getting the Google Voice App blocked on the iPhone and the FCC to scrutinize Google Voice, you’d think AT&T could sit back and rest assured. But not so.
Monitoring posts on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace could help to prevent suicide, according to two researchers from New Zealand’s Victoria University.
Dr. Tiong-Thye Goh and student assistant Yen-Pei Huang have developed a decision support system to scan social networking sites to flag keywords that people between the ages of 18 and 24 are posting. A high proportion of certain keywords could mean that a user is at risk of depression, suicide and other mental disorders.
