These are all my posts about Twitter, such as how to do things, interesting findings and various looks at twitter statistics. You’ll also find my posts about newspapers on twitter, tracking the rise of growth in their follower numbers. And, of course, the great story where the Express confused follower and following numbers.
Search for cottage hire birmingham, and Google shows you a map of bethlehem in pennsylvania. Huh?
Read the full post ...Twitter appears to be down. How do we tell people? Maybe it’s just me. Here are some ways to find / work out what to do:
Read the full post ...Short and to the point. But @guardiantech reached 1 million followers early this morning.
It benefits massively from being on Twitter’s suggested users list. But impressive nonetheless. You can see more UK newspaper twitter numbers here.
If you liked the list of user-experience twitterers that Done Bright put together, you may have wished, like me, that you could see the bios / description of each account. Well, I’ve played around with the Twitter API, and now you can!
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With 981,359 followers, @Guardiantech is closing in on a million, as I reveal the latest figures for UK newspaper Twitter accounts. @GuardianTech has jumped 150,000 followers in a month. @TimesFashion (29,190 followers) has moved up one place to 2nd, overtaking @GuardianNews (27,802) which is now 3rd.
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Ofcom has revealed that people don’t get the broadband speeds they pay for. Well, duh. Here’s a timeline of how we already know that. Their research isn’t groundbreaking or new or revealing something for the first time, as is being claimed. What we need is action: ISPs should be forced to publish a typical range of speeds rather than an upto speed that no one can get.
Read the full post ...Other people have tweeted (or retweeted) the Guardian’s URLs 328,288 times over the last 4 months – way more than any other UK newspaper.
The FT and Times have more followers on Twitter than the Telegraph and Mail – but they’re not tweeted about as often. The Telegraph is in second place: 120,731 tweets have included a link to one if its URLs. The Daily Mail is 3rd with 95,851.
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Do people realise that anyone can see their profile unless they lock it? Here are 10 tweets about the person’s boss from the last week – they’re all from accounts with more than 50 updates, so they should have worked out what’s going on …
Read the full post ...I recently counted all the official national newspaper twitter accounts. It took a long time. So I want the figures to update automatically. Here’s what I’ve done so far. Can you help me do it better?
Read the full post ...National newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across all their Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and FT the only three papers in the top 10 newspaper accounts. The Guardian’s the clear Twitter winner, as it’s place on the Twitter Suggested User List means that its GuardianTech account has 831,935 followers – 78% of the total …
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The latest subscriber figures (see table below) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds – and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to something else. Like Twitter.
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Twitter is now using proper meta descriptions – the full tweet for tweets, and the bio for profile pages.
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With a 140-character limit, avoiding unnecessary apostrophes could make the difference between your tweet fitting … and not (this is no excuse not to include an apostrophe when you should).
Read the full post ...The full text of the row that erupted live on Twitter between @shanerichmond (Communities editor and technology blogger at Telegraph.co.uk) and @charlesarthur (The Guardian’s Technology editor).
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What makes a good Twitter avatar – with examples of good and bad avatars and lessons you can learn from them.
Read the full post ...There are twice as many tweets about men (ie including the word ‘he’) as there are about women (ie including the word ’she’).
Read the full post ...Tweeting about beer and wine peaks at 2am saturday and then again at midnight saturday. Tweets about being drunk peak at 8am on saturday and sunday. Although they can’t have been that drunk, or they wouldn’t be up at that time tweeting.
Read the full post ...There are twice as many men tweeting as women. Or men are twice as likely to tweet about their wives as vice versa?.
Read the full post ...The percentage of tweets containing ‘I’ follows a similar pattern each day – peeking at 6am, and falling to a daily low at 12am.
Read the full post ...One in 5 tweets contain a URL. Tweets are more likely to contain links on weekdays than weekends. And tweets at 10am are more likely to contain links that at other times.
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