Month: May 2008

  • Twitter tools

    Just one of things that is interesting about Twitter is how many services have been built upon its simple interface to provide additional  features. For a service that has yet to hit mainstream, it’s germinated a whole eco-system of apps. Here’s some of the Twitter tools I like best. I don’t bother with desktop apps…

  • Newspaper Twitter stats for April

    Erica Smith has published her April newspaper Twitter stats. I love that she is doing this project! Her stats show several newspapers had followings that grew by triple digits in the last month while @knoxnews grew by 47 percent and @Bonnaroo, which she started following mid-month, grew by about 7 percent. Smith is tracking 141…

  • It was silly of you to come, but stay awhile

    In the quest for audience, we live by what marketing  whiz Seth Godin calls “silly traffic.” One time visitors who hit a site for a few seconds and are gone. This site, for example, has a high number of them. The Google Analytics average for the last month is a bounce rate of 79.26 percent…