Hopefully you rely on Marketing Pilgrim to find the best marketing news for you. If you’re monitoring news feeds yourself, you’ll know the enormous amount of buzz/noise surrounding today’s Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Here are three things almost certain to happen at today…
Twitter Could Have Problems for Months
Lately, it seems that a high number of Tweets has been causing problems for Twitter, making key features unavailable, and in a post to the Twitter Technology Blog, it was implied that more popular users like say, Robert Scoble, who have a lot of followers are the reason that the service has been failing.
Twitter Places Blame On Users For Problems
I almost did a Mike Arrington headline, like the one he used recently against Wired magazine, when he was frustrated that they were calling him out. It would have been so satisfying. But, I decided to play it straight. At least here. Over on FriendFeed I let my full fury out.
Twitter Is Over Capacity
Decisions. Decisions. How to stay in touch with the exponential growth of the technical information being developed by our exponentially growing network of contacts. The Internet is a fertile field for all this growth but how do we poor humans stay on top of it.
A-Listers Killing Twitter With Tweets
Popular people with long lists of followers on Twitter may be partly responsible for the micro-blogging site’s performance woes at times.
Traffic To Twitter Nearly Doubles In Two Months
Twitter’s been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
Twitter Used To Report Earthquake
Twitter doesn’t always work well; its frequent outages have earned it all sorts of negative attention. It has at least partially redeemed itself, though, as Twitter was one of the first sites on which news of the earthquake in China appeared.
Twitter Blacklist Bites Thumb At Obnoxious People
A public service or draconian narc network? You be the judge. It didn’t take long for a few things to happen with Twitter: for so-called spammers to seek out a "marketing" advantage; for Twitterers to fight back against said spammers; and for a moral authority to form.
Twitter Took A Week’s Vacation
Among social media and network types of websites, Twitter spent over 37 hours away from the Internet and the service’s users.
Learning About Movable Type On Twitter
If you’re like me, all you’ve heard about in blogging software the last couple of years is WordPress. But as a long-time blogger using Movable Type, I wondered what they have been up to. And then Twitter brought me together with Byrne Reese, Product Manager of Movable Type and Community Leader of MTOS at Six Apart, maker of Movable Type and other offerings.