Tag: twitter
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Twitter, Media and the Osama bin Laden Story
Last night re-confirmed that Twitter is the medium of choice for breaking stories. As a media channel, Twitter scooped literally everyone….again. The story of the killing of Osama bin Laden drove massive amounts of sustained traffic, sentiment and insights throughout the night and into Monday. Measured in Tweets-Per-Second, the bin Laden story generated the highest…
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Creating Value: Products Vs. Platforms
There’s been a lot of conversation about platforms recently, especially with the recent changes to the Twitter TOS. Chris Dixon wrote some great thoughts about the rules of platform ownership and makes a great case for maintaining transparency and clear expectations with developers. I’ve been thinking more about the value chain, and what the best decision…
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Locking on Strategy: Apple & Twitter
I’ve been trying to identify a trend I’ve seen this week in my RSS feeds, told through the story of Apple changing rules on iPhone application analytics (Venture Beat), the much-discussed HTML5 vs. Adobe battle (I like this Scobleizer read which discusses it) and Twitter developing 3rd party applications for mobile applications and acquiring Tweetie…