Twitter in search for growth

Twitter is also focusing on the enterprise segment. Earlier this year, they released two new features to help businesses doing customer service on Twitter. They released Direct Message (DMs) prompts in Tweets that make it easy for businesses to reply to a public Tweet and make the conversation a private, direct message to the consumer.

Twitter Explores New Enterprise Offerings

Posted on Friday, Apr 29th 2016 | Disappointing results for the tech sector continued with the announcement of Twitter’s (NYSE: TWTR) quarterly performance. The company continues to struggle to attract a higher user base and is failing to meet market’s revenue expectations.

Twitter’s Financials
Twitter’s Q1 revenues grew 36% over the year to $595 million, falling short of the Street’s forecast of $608 million. EPS of $0.15 was ahead of the market’s projected earnings of $0.10 per share for the quarter.

Source: One million by One million blog

What comes after Social Media?

SILICON VALLEY – Year 2003 things were heating up again in the valley after the dot com crisis and 2001 WTC twin tower catastrophe.

Web 2.0 and social media made Internet services fashionable again, pulling back entrepreneurs who thrived or merely survived in the first rounds of activities on the Internet that began two decades ago.

New companies emerged from nowhere. Blogs became popular. We got wiki and microblogs. Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Skype and a myriad of other social media services emerged.

Google and Apple are now the most glowing examples of post-dot-com-crisis. Both companies have positioned themselves for future growth. But they are also becoming competitors.

Millions of people around the world learned to use Facebook and Twitter. Nokia is still the world’s biggest mobile phones producer and supplier but it’s not the leader in usability. Google launched Buzz this year.

It’s interesting to see how fast the competitors are countering the successful launching of iPad. Nobody has been able to deliver a iPhone killer? Is it going to take three to five years before we see the first iPad killers as well?

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai

The value of Twitter in the #Mumbai Terrorist Attack Reporting channel is scrutinized by Andrew Stroehlein. The tweets didn't, in his opinion, add with any substantial news. His critic is well founded from a news reporting and journalistic standpoint. Tweeters aren't professional journalists. But should we think about this as a conversational and therapeutic process that starts at the very beginning of an incident. There are of course also security concerns when tweets are disclosing things that "other side" can use for evil purposes. Tweets can also be used to deliver hatered and false information. The crowd doesn't act as a controlled, organized, well organized community. The crowd expresses feelings and sentiments. Traditional media focuses on "facts" and what is considered as "objective" information.

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai: "Written by: Andrew Stroehlein | Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone.

I will try to make this blog entry 140 characters long, since that is the longest possible message on Twitter, which some are raving about as a source of news during the Mumbai attacks. I'm not exactly convinced. And I'm already over 140 characters.

As someone who has previously equated 'citizen journalism' with 'citizen dentistry' Twitter heads were obviously going to have a hard time convincing me. There have been a few interesting articles trying to make the case with the attacks in Mumbai, however, including one from Mathew Ingram, who boldly claims 'Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism'.

Reuters also has had a good piece on 'citizen journalism' in the Mumbai case, as does France 24, CNN and others.

I remain sceptical, however. Looking through the Twitter search stream for 'Mumbai', I see so much useless information, I quickly get the feeling I am wasting my time. There are some personal notes -- very welcome no doubt if you have family or friends caught up in the madness and would like to know if they're OK, but it's not information that offers anything anyone can act upon..."

Amid Chaos, Citizens Spread Word on Web - WSJ.com

I've been following #Mumbai Twitter online. The terror has taken a new dimension. The question is, how can an open society build a defense line? Think about 40 determined people causing such a tremendeous damage. Mumbai (Bombay) is one world's largest cities. Those 40 men were able to take hostage of the whole city. Twitter has been one of the tools spreading word around the globe. Much will be talked about the accuracy of reporting.

Amid Chaos, Citizens Spread Word on Web - WSJ.com: "The Mumbai attacks have unleashed a storm of live updates from residents, swelling traffic and content on sites such as Twitter and Yahoo Inc.'s photo Web site Flickr. A Googlemap on the attack sites was swiftly put up. A lengthy entry about the attacks on user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia surfaced in less than an hour.

The interactivity demonstrates how Asia's technologically sophisticated populations are becoming citizen journalists and increasingly being the first sources of information on disasters like the Mumbai attacks and China's earthquake earlier this year, often outpacing traditional media outlets.

Experts say the late adoption but rapid spread of Internet and cellphone usage has made people in India and China quicker to embrace these new technologies. Compared with the U.S., 'the cellphone system and SMS culture is stronger in Asia,' said Sree Sreenivasan, a new-media professor at Columbia University.

Sites such as San Fancisco-based Twitter Inc.'s are 'one more step in the evolution,' of news-gathering, he said. He notes that bloggers played a prominent role in disseminating information during the 2004 Asian tsunami, as well as the heavy use of text-messaging during the 2006 Mumbai train blasts."

Dell to Use Twitter for Global Mobility Event

Learned about this through my brand new FriendFeed "visualradio". I've been there for less than 30 minutes. This one can be compared:

• Twitter
• Pownce
• Jaiku
• Tumblr
• Etc
  

Dell to Use Twitter for Global Mobility Event: "Dell will answer questions from reporters and customers in real-time online during a global news conference Tuesday (Aug. 12) unveiling the company’s new generation of mobility products.

Users of Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service, will be able to ask questions about Dell’s new products and the company will “tweet” the answers. Tweets are text-based posts up to 140 characters in length.

Reporters and customers on Twitter can direct questions during the news conference to www.twitter.com/Digital_Nomads. Dell will also blog about the Global Mobility Event at Direct2Dell.

Dell is among the first major companies to offer reporters and customers the opportunity to ask questions on Twitter during a live news conference. The company will provide live updates online from the event in San Francisco, and from media events in London and New Delhi, India."

Autiomaa.org | Daniel Schildt

autiomaa.org | Daniel Schildt: "Professional Goals. Interested in work related to communication, art and technology. Things like Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration and Web Development are what I do. Also interested in working as technical support."

Helge: I'm following Daniel Schildt on Twitter. Need to take a closer look at his photography.

The Toad Stool: 10 Things I Hate About Twitter

The Toad Stool: 10 Things I Hate About Twitter: "So I’ve kind of gotten addicted to Twitter over the past few weeks. At its best, it’s like an ongoing coffee break that you can pop in and out of over the course of a day and find out all sorts of interesting gossip, not to mention articles worth reading and other time sucks.

Helge: I read occasionally and don't ever get whole picture.

That said, there are a number of things I find frustrating about it and given that Twitter is still in its nascent stage, I thought I’d put them into the ever popular list form."

Helge: Twitter and Jaiku are different but automatic update would be great.

J.J. Spencer is one of the many hungry young lawyers

This is an interesting Twitterer. Is J.J. Spencer a real person? I have to find out.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.: "J.J. Spencer is one of the many hungry young lawyers eager to climb the corporate ladder to the great future awaiting him. With his first annual review approaching, J.J. is confident his keen work for the top Manhattan law firm he is employed by will be praised all the way to the bank. Until, that is, he gives in to a sudden surge of compassion for one of his clients during a chance encounter at a diner. J.J. discovers how swiftly no good deed goes unpunished: the consequences of his generous impulse snowball and before he knows it, J.J. Spencer has been beaten bloody, arrested for drunk driving, and fired from his job."

His perfect life seemingly over, J.J. decides he must dedicate himself to helping the very people who unwittingly lost him everything. It is through that journey—and the surprising battles contained therein—that a new life is allowed to rise from the ashes of the old, and J.J. emerges as the man he always should have been.

Name: Jay

JAY NUSSBAUM is a writer, lawyer and teacher. A Monk Jumped Over a Wall is his second novel. From 1997 to 2000, he taught Eastern philosophy and martial arts at Cornell University. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Nussbaum follows up his critically acclaimed debut novel, Blue Road to Atlantis, with another captivating, elegant and humorous tale. Where his first work explored the importance of discovering your place in the world, A Monk Jumped Over a Wall examines the fate of those who don't.

City: New York
Hometown: New York
Country: United States
Occupation: Writer, lawyer, teacher
Website: http://www.jaynussbaum.com

The user is the content | Meeting of Minds - Antwerp '07

Helge: We just became Twitter friends with Meeting of Minds from Antwerpen. At the same time I was looking at Loic Le Meur's presentation in Amsterdam about his new Seemic venture.

THE USER IS THE CONTENT | Meeting of Minds - Antwerp '07: "Recent changes in hard- and software have supported the way of using/reusing and creating/recreating information. For anyone who wants to do so, it is now possible to create, to publish online, to make her/his own video or music creation, and share all this with others on the Internet.

Helge: We are moving from written blogs towards Twitter like video conversations: fast, interactive, conversational...

Indeed technological developments empowered people to express themselves and allowed them to participate in projects and share creations on a much larger scale than before. They also transformed the business of content distribution since part of the users is no longer interested in the whole lot offered by for instance news papers or music labels, but in their own selection of it.

Helge: We can build global networks with a fraction of money.

What is the value of this content? What is the impact of it on traditional media and publishing? Will we evolve to a more flexible copyright system? What are the influences of nations/states/regions and other regulators of the online/mobile market? These issues will be discussed more deeply during a Meeting of Minds and will be challenged afterwards by the future scenarios presented."

Helge: Sharing! I don't mind if thousand people use my photos and pictures.

Jack Of All Blogs

Jack Of All Blogs: "I never thought it were possible, but there actually is something positive about Facebook! It’s perfect for catbloggers. Take people such as Calacanis and Scoble, those who pee their pants and then blog about it.

• Helge: Those two are visible.

We also call them A-Listers. Advantage Numero Uno of Facebook it that it offers anything every catblogger might desire to whore out itself. The blogging narcist. The eternal entertainer. Entertainer for people who don’t care about any value. Value other than Geek Big Brother. The positive thing about Facebook lays in it’s platform alikeness: everything all together. It’s microblogging3.

• Helge: Microblogging is an efficient way to say the essential with 140 characters.
  

Scoblers and Calacanis’es can import all their stuff at Facebook, without needing any other platforms, profiles anymore: blog feeds, tweets, contact details, facebook messaging can replace their email, aso. But more even, Facebook offers them picture and video upload. A blogging platform with notes and the twitter clone ‘Status updates’. Anything a blogger needs? Facebook has, Facebook is the microblogger’s myspace. Perfect for kicking out your thoughts at anytime and apps allow you to spice them up. Facebook is a dream for the Scobles among you!"

• Helge: I agree. That's the way it works.

Facebook Value

This summer has been lots of Social Media for me. I'm co-writing an Enterprise 2.0 ebook and my theme is Virtual Organizations 1970 - 2010.

The Web 2.0 social media evolution is much stronger in US than in Europe. Linux and IRC were invented by Finns, Linux Thorwalds and IRC by someone from Oulu.

Why does it take longer for us in Europe to grasp the advantages and benefits of Social Media? Loic LeMeur wrote in his twitter/blog some time ago that the language landscape isn't as monolithic as in US.

European online web 2.0 entrepreneurs are still rare. Skype was invented in Europe but we didn't know what to do with it. Key technologies for the Apple iPod are from Germany, but European biz's didn't know how to make Mp3 to a business.

Nokia is great on the global market but its market share of the US mobile market is only 10 % and global market share is 39 %.

New things this summer for me:

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Jaiku

Just to mention a few...

Between the lines writes, "This is the summer of Facebook. The social network went from relative obscurity outside of college campuses to the next big thing, with a multi-billion dollar valuation and more than double number of users. Some of my fellow travelers are questioning the (personal) role of social networks or suffering Facebook fatigue. Jason Calacanis characterizes Facebook as bankrupt..."

Profy Welcome to Visul Radios

Profy Profy is linked to: Visual Radios http://tinyurl.com/2wrf8z 40 minutes ago from twitterfeed.

Hello Profy, welcome to Visual Radios. I try to watch the Web 2.0 evolution, Social Media chatter, twitter and jaikus from the deep woods of Finland. Co-writing ebook about Virtual Organizations 1970-2010.

• 70's - telex machine to get connected
• 80's - the fax and car phone (mobile)
• 90's - Internet and Web 1.0
• 00's - Web 2.0 and Social Media
• 10's - Global open collaboration and co-creation - Move from social to Industrial (maybe)

Here are some pictures, mostly from Finland and our house in Sotkamo (600 km's north of Helsinki).

Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday, Doc

The blogging culture isn't very old. I did start early. Blogging is still a minority hobby in Finland and those who use Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook and other Web 2.0 and social media tools is even smaller. The short form SMS twitters and jaikus are a great way to communicate with the world. Podcasts are very useful but take more time to produce.


rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday, Doc: "The first time I ever heard the word, “weblog,” it was from Doc Searls. And the first time I ever heard the word, “podcast” it was from Doc Searls (on September 28, 2004 — I blogged about it the next day).

I am a big fan of Doc’s and the things he says. Heck, I’ve listened to and internalized so much of what he’s said, I’m sure a lot of what I write here is merely channeling Docisms.

Doc also taught me to look out of the window when I fly. Because he takes incredible photographs out of the windows of airplanes, I look forward to his travels because — in “where’s Waldo fashion” — I can’t wait to see what geologic formation or natural phenomena he’ll record: I can recall photos of mud-slides, forest fires and, just recently, an awesome display of the Aurora Borealis.

I think Doc Searls sees lots of things the rest of us don’t because he looks while others don’t think to. His depth of curiosity is, fortunately, balanced by his gift for analysis and the ability to write in such a way as to convey perceptive — sometimes even radical — ideas in a provocative (but respectful and professional), non-technical and entertaining fashion"

Where are we all in the summer time?

It’s vacation time in Finland and a valid question is where have all the people gone. Business life is at its low but retail stores are selling better in July than during the Christmas sales boom in December.

But those who use their blogs and wikies, jaikus and twitters are easily found. Put their name into a search engine and you will find their hangouts, where they are this moment.

Those who look for friends and business associates through social media isn’t yet a big number but web traffic indicates that the web presence is paying off. There is a global distribution of attention.

I need to think more about the content and what kind of pictures and visions to paint for display on the world wide web.

The number one reason I dislike Twitter - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

Helge: Twitter is a small application. It's like talking in the crowd. I'm not sure if everybody is listening or paying attention. Twitter is small talk. I like the service. It gives me an insight to things that happen far away from my place.

The number one reason I dislike Twitter - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews: "The number one reason I dislike Twitter Posted by Allen Stern, July 6, 2007

In May, James Thomas noted five reasons that Twitter sucks. One of his reasons has been dealt with (the cat is dead) but the others remain.

I have watched more people use it as a business tool. Mashable uses it to post tweets of their new posts (I do sometimes as well), Jason Calacanis uses it to pimp his tool, Rafe tests things using Twitter, Marshall posts random interesting findings and Patricia uses it to let us know where the good eateries are in her area.

So what's the number 1 reason I dislike Twitter? The inability to follow a conversation. Here are three examples of what I mean:"

Dave Winer’s TwitterGram

Twitter is a new service for me. I've been using it for less than a week. It's cool, it's short form and it's rapid messaging. Twittergram is a new service. I haven't used it yet.

The beuty of Twitter is the shortness of the messages. Reading and feeding them is fun. I've them flowing to my blogs and home pages.

You can see my Twitter feed on the right side. Please, read, become a Twitter member and have fun.

Dave Winer’s TwitterGram: "Dave Winer likes to throw web services and his own software in a blender and see what comes out, and his new TwitterGram project is a perfect example. In this case, he’s married the Twitter API to his own service that allows people to upload short audio messages to their Twitter accounts. He’s then taken the next step of allowing people to phone in their messages via BlogTalkRadio. The result is a super easy way to post audio messages to your Twitter account via a phone.

Like most of Dave’s projects, there’s no obvious business purpose to the service, and he seems to be creating something new and useful for the sole purpose of keeping his mind busy. Not all of his projects take off, but they are always interesting and fun to explore.

And don’t mis-underestimate him, either. He’s made plenty of money along the way while helping the Internet ecosystem. I wonder what he’ll blend up next."