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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-16

November 16th, 2009

Social distribution: "It opens up distribution in ways that never existed before." /by @aweissman http://ow.ly/B2X0 #
Newscorp embraces twitter, blocks google and why it makes sense in 2010 http://ow.ly/B3zY #
Dell earned $1mm in rev in 6 month via twitter, many others have similar chance to create opt-in channel for deals http://ow.ly/Blm8 #
Liked: "5 Hot Social Shopping Trends to Watch For." Especially real-time deals, instant product reviews. http://ow.ly/Bqhn #
"We're not in the biz of keeping the media companies alive. We're in the biz of connecting w/ consumers." T Edwards, Nike http://ow.ly/Bt9A #
Amazon's lessons from the subject line of marketing emails apply in spades to Activity Stream Publishing: http://ow.ly/BuUk #
Interesting Trend: Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer http://bit.ly/1DVOmQ #
Great post by @vcmike at Polaris. How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Facebook. http://ow.ly/CQ8T #

November 16th, 2009

Social distribution: "It opens up distribution in ways that never existed before." /by @aweissman http://ow.ly/B2X0 #
Newscorp embraces twitter, blocks google and why it makes sense in 2010 http://ow.ly/B3zY #
Dell earned $1mm in rev in 6 month via twitter, many others have similar chance to create opt-in channel for deals http://ow.ly/Blm8 #
Liked: "5 Hot Social Shopping Trends to Watch For." Especially real-time deals, instant product reviews. http://ow.ly/Bqhn #
"We're not in the biz of keeping the media companies alive. We're in the biz of connecting w/ consumers." T Edwards, Nike http://ow.ly/Bt9A #
Amazon's lessons from the subject line of marketing emails apply in spades to Activity Stream Publishing: http://ow.ly/BuUk #
Interesting Trend: Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer http://bit.ly/1DVOmQ #
Great post by @vcmike at Polaris. How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Facebook. http://ow.ly/CQ8T #

November 9th, 2009

Liked: "The unclicking 84%" http://ow.ly/zzoY How can reach surfers who DONT click on web ads? (hint:social media) #
Nice question by @DaveEvans: "If you couldn’t interrupt people, how would you reach them?" #
Shop.org poll: "~1/2 of all online retailers will begin to ramp up their presence on SNs, inc. Facebook" http://ow.ly/zSzD #
Breakdown of biz models by TechStar's portfolio companies: http://ow.ly/AuKe #
Liked reading for 2nd time: "social objects for beginners: http://ow.ly/AHFu #
Liked: "Pizza Hut's iPhone App Has Generated $1 Million in Sales" (w/ video) http://ow.ly/AI0F #
Savvy move to turn customers into social media advocates. Liked:"Ford Takes Online Gamble With New Fiesta" http://ow.ly/AIDi #

November 2nd, 2009

Interesting framework (tho slightly cutesy): "HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI" http://ow.ly/wSVO #
+16% conversation rate, +5.5% order value. Make your retailing site load quickly! http://ow.ly/xnaR #
An interesting teleology by Owyang and other Altimeter analysts: "The Future of the Social Web" http://ow.ly/xGd7 #

October 26th, 2009

Is referral system for web traffic shifting? FB's Sandberg: "yes, from info economy to social networking" http://ow.ly/vNHb #
My lord! Facebook now accounts for 1 In 4 pageviews. (Google? Just 8% of PVs) http://ow.ly/w9×4 #
Do UE/UX Design in Palo Alto? Shopwell is hiring: http://ow.ly/wAjn Are you a UX designer in NYC? Stayed tuned from us. #
Interesting collection of UX patterns: http://ow.ly/wF1N #
Interesting. Now you can access clickback and other analytical data about shared links on Facebook: http://ow.ly/wHeN #
Twitter is #4- Retailers , after Facebook, YouTube and MySpace (eMarketer study): http://ow.ly/wHim #
42% of buyers share product rec's on online social networks, and 2% do so daily! (more stats from eMarketer) http://ow.ly/wHvE #

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October 19th, 2009

Woot! We answered the call: @socialfeet is follower 1,500 of @perfectescapes. Congrats, #pe! #
Congrats to LinkedIn on the 50MM user milestone. Jeff Weiner's announcement: http://ow.ly/uz6V #

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October 12th, 2009

Fantastic data about Twitter (i.e user growth, followers, # & velocity of tweets, cohort analysis): http://ow.ly/sYiT #

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October 5th, 2009

RT: @avinashkaushik: People with smart phones (Android,iPhone,Pre) do 50X more searches than people with basic phones #
Interesting: "What really matters is the increased accessibility of people online, not just information online." http://ow.ly/rYoQ #
Really cool! FB offers a Facebook Connect wizard that demonstrates its potential:http://ow.ly/s3ad Whets the appetite, no? #
Great new stats about the power of Facebook Connect: http://ow.ly/seZB #
Important idea being developed at @techcrunch: "The Speed Of Share" http://ow.ly/sIzT #
Great video: "Why NYC startup scene is special?" – that's why we are moving from SV to NYC! http://ow.ly/sRxD #

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September 28th, 2009

Another reason to drive traffic from social networks: "90% of your crappy traffic comes from Google" #scw09 (RT @davemcclure) #
Provocative–but it is true? Sandberg: "People want to interact with their marketers as they do their friends" #facebook #

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September 21st, 2009

Wow. Facebook stores 80 billion photos, and it servers 1.2 million photos per second(!) at its peak. #TC50 #
Smart move: Facebook Connect is trying to rebrand itself as a sharing platform, rather than merely an authentication system. #TC50 #
Holy cow! 20 clicks per newsfeed item with JibJab's Facebook Connect's implementation. Great presentation by @jibjiab at #TC50 #
On JibJab, Facebook Connect DOUBLED conversion rates at Sign-On Page at #TC50 #
Have you grabbed your companies name for the Twitter API? Register now before someone else does! http://ow.ly/pO3o #

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