Posted on June 19, 2009 1:48 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Twitter
Neville Hobson just tweeted a link to a news story in the Croydon Guardian about the suspension of a Twitter account. In a nutshell, the Croydon Council had launched a print newspaper for distribution to residents of the town to ensure they received town news distributed principally through press releases. Someone on the staff had set up a Twitter account…
Posted on May 25, 2009 2:04 pm by Shel Holtz | Death Watch | RSS | Social Media | Twitter
In a post on November 17, 2008, I created the Death Watch list, a rundown of various media whose death has been widely predicted. This is the second in a series of posts that takes a deeper dive into these.
A meme suggesting that Twitter is poised to replace RSS has been swirling through the social media space, but I largely…
Posted on April 22, 2009 9:17 pm by Shel Holtz | Twitter
If you stick around long enough, you get to see history repeat itself. Since history repeats itself when nobody learned from it the first time around, it’s usually not a pretty sight.
The latest example of this is all the righteous indignation by users of Twitter over the surge of newcomers to the service joining in order to follow celebrities like Shaq,…
Posted on April 14, 2009 10:19 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Crisis Communication | Social Media | Twitter
After seeing a tweet from Barbara Nixon with a link to a truly disgusting video, I responded with a retweet of the link and a declaration that, after seeing the video, I’ll never eat at Domino’s Pizza again. My tweet was then retweeted by a variety of people who added prefaces like “Over to you Domino’s” and “Domino’s are you paying attention.”
I waited to see if I’d hear…
Posted on March 25, 2009 4:40 am by Shel Holtz | Twitter
Twitter is all about brevity. One-hundred forty characters in which to condense your most profound thoughts. It’s perfect for the Attention Deficit Disorder crowd, since they can’t focus on any one thing for more than a few seconds anyway.
Everything you read about Twitter—and it’s a lot these days, between blog posts like this and a sudden infatuation by mainstream media—mentions the brevity thing. And I…
Posted on March 16, 2009 8:53 pm by Shel Holtz | Marketing | Twitter
There were three schools of thought on the transformation of the Skittles site to almost entirely social content. It was the greatest thing since Friendfeed, you thought it sucked on all levels, or you thought it would have been a great idea if it weren’t for all that Twitter nastiness so potentially damaging to the brand.
As soon as they realized the…
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