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An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

November 3, 2009

With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. Looking at selection of Twitter accounts from 30 31 news sites, I checked the number of Lists that have been created and how many followers each has attracted [...]

A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

October 20, 2009

I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics. So I’ve been curious to see how their Twitter press release service would do. Muck Rack charges $1 per character to send out a 140 character press release, with [...]

Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites

August 7, 2009

This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. @foxnews tops the list averaging 135.85 tweets per day. @nytimes and @time also made the top 25, averaging 39.25 and 29.22 tweets respectively. Is [...]

Twitter Suggested Users – Today’s Studio 54 Velvet Rope

July 17, 2009

One of the ways that higher profile Twitter accounts have built up large numbers of followers is by being included among the “suggested users” shown to users signing up for a new account: Each new user has a group of 20 Twitter profiles suggested to them; one click of a button and they’re automatically following [...]

Newsweek Cares about (some of) your Tweets. Fox News Not so Much.

May 1, 2009

I’ve been surprised by how many people choose to follow the main Twitter account of major news sites. I know in some cases it’s because they are featured as “suggested users” to people who sign up for a new Twitter account. But it seems like there are much better ways to monitor daily news feeds. [...]

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