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How Twitter Will Win Local Search April 15, 2009 at 9:04 am (This post was originally published on Local Search News) Almost everything on Twitter is inherently local. The simple question “What are you doing?” implies that because, unless you are at home watching TV, you are doing something that is local, whether that is local to you or to someone else. Defeat Your Twitter Archenemy On Tweefight iSkoot Notifier Goes International Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated) Defeat Your Twitter Archenemy On Tweefight April 15, 2009 at 8:02 am Another day, another TwitterTwitter reviews-based time waster. Luca Filigheddu, the author of Twitter search engine Tweefind which we wrote about recently, has a new application out: Tweefight. It takes the simple, tried and true concept of Google Fight and applies it to Twitter. Type two Twitter users, and Tweefight will calculate their "rank" (presumably using the same algorithm as Tweefind), compare them, and tell you which one "won" the fight. How Twitter Will Win Local Search iSkoot Notifier Goes International Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated) iSkoot Notifier Goes International April 15, 2009 at 3:44 am iSkoot's Notifier product takes some of the most popular social services on the web, and puts in a format that's easy to read on average phones. By "average" I don't mean smartphones, because remember, most of the world still does not have those. Today, iSkoot is taking the Notifier product international thanks to a deal with German carrier E-Plus. Socializr 'Event Connect' Looks To Be Your Comprehensive Social Calendar Group Dating Site Ignighter Gets New Features, Needs More Users Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated) April 15, 2009 at 3:04 am A Moldovan activist faces criminal charges for organizing demonstrations that were enabled by social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the Russian press reports. In an interview with Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Moldovan Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea said Natalia Morar, one of the organizers of an anti-Communist flash mob, has been officially charged with "calls for organizing and staging mass disturbances." (Morar has not been put in jail, however–despite some reports to the contrary.) iSkoot Notifier Goes International Twitter and a History of Technology and Communications Bay Area restaurant tweets up a good deal Twitter and a History of Technology and Communications April 15, 2009 at 3:01 am First, a bit of a prelude. Probably 15 years ago, I was talking to someone who did marketing for a high end bike manufacturer. He was telling me about the amount of money the company was spending to really understand what their core customers (and their competitors' core customers) were looking for in a bike…what did they really, really want? I pointed him to USENET group formed and populated by people passionate about bikes. "They are doing your research for you," I said. My point was that technology now allowed people who were passionate about a product or category to form communities to explore and communicate about that love–and that smart companies should be looking to technology to better understand that bleeding edge customer. iSkoot Notifier Goes International Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated) Bay Area restaurant tweets up a good deal This email was sent to arildinho13@gmail.com. Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.

Twitter Fight! Larry King To Kutcher: CNN Will Bury You

"Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is?!" Them fightin' words - from longtime CNN host Larry King to Ashton Kutcher. King sent out the YouTube video (below) responding to the challenge Kutcher laid out yesterday to beat CNN to become the first Twitter user with a million followers.

So far, it's not working all that well for Kutcher. He is gaining followers at a remarkable rate - he now has over 870,000 followers - yesterday he had under 850,000. But CNN is gaining them just as quickly. Yesterday they stood just above 900,000 and now they're just under 930,000. So Kutcher has stepped up his game slightly, offering Guitar Hero to the person who is his millionth follower. Come on Ashton, you can do better than that.

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