Tag Archives: Twitter

Elevator Pitching Twitter

August 4, 2008 – 10:27 am

UTweet, a project of Archana Ramachandran and David Giesberg, aims to educate the college crowd on how to use Twitter, and why to.  They are doing a series of people in elevators pitching what Twitter is.
They contacted me after viewing the accidental elevator pitch of Guy Kawasaki at SXSW.  It got me thinking, how the [...]

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Twitter the Spammer

July 7, 2008 – 9:48 pm

Lots of talk today about Twitter and spammers.
My take on it?  Twitter is the spammer.  By allowing script services to auto add thousands of people in a short period of time, Twitter is the service sending out thousands of unwanted emails.  For one user, Twitter sent out 12,335 emails on their behalf.  Enter Twitter [...]

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1000% Growth Frenzy in Social Media

February 27, 2008 – 2:30 am

Academically, I am sure the following can be shredded apart faster than a term sheet for VC Wear.
I remember reading an article in the New York Times about the fictional 1000% yearly growth rate in telecom industry that was a major factor in the bubble. The territory was so unknown, and everyone was growing [...]

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