AMC’s Breaking Bad, arguably the greatest show on television and one of the best TV series of all time, returned this past Sunday to considerable fanfare and much anticipation.
So how did Twitter react?
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Cursing. Swearing. Dropping the f-bomb. Everybody does it. Right?
Back in 1972, legendary standup comedian George Carlin did an iconic gig where he talked about the seven dirty words you can never say on television in the United States. That’s more than forty years ago, but even today many of these words are still not used on the public airways in the U.S., certainly on the major networks (although they get a regular airing on HBO and Showtime). But what about the internet? How often do folks use these expressions online?
The Twitter Profile page has gone through a number of redesigns over the years which, aesthetically, have almost always been pleasing.
However, for the end user, particularly if you’re managing a brand profile on Twitter, having to then re-learn and re-implement all of the necessary images for the profile page in their respective heights, widths and file sizes can be both time-consuming and problematic.
And if you’re completely new to Twitter, utterly confusing. Where do you even begin?
Who’s the most influential world leader? It’s a debatable point, but you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more influential than U.S. president Barack Obama. Obama, of course, is on Twitter – and has been for some time – so by definition he must be the most influential head of state on there, too, right?
Wrong. At least according to one new study, which suggests that it’s Pope Francis who is actually Twitter’s most influential world leader. Pretty good going, when you consider that “he” has only been tweeting since last December.
In previous posts we’ve looked at the impact that the birth of the #RoyalBaby has made on Twitter, trouncing Twitter’s most-popular user and making a huge impact around the world.
As the story continues to unfold, Twitter shows no signs of losing interest in even the remotest of details about the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and, certainly in the UK at least, one study has suggested that this might be the biggest news story in the micro-blogging social network’s history.
Yesterday we looked at how discussion about the #RoyalBaby on Twitter had reached such a frenzy that it had even usurped tweets sent to and about the network’s most popular user, Justin Bieber.
Indeed, since the birth of the baby, and the reveal about the gender (it’s a boy, btw – you’re welcome), Bieber has been left even further in its dust. But which country has been most excited about the news?
What connects Miley Cyrus, John Mayer, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Brown and Kanye West?
If your first thought was, “They’re all awful, awful people,” then, I’m sorry, but the answer we were actually looking for was: they’ve all, at one time or another, quit Twitter.
And, in many cases, quickly come back again. But why? What in blue blazes happened?
Why should your small business be on Twitter?
How about this for a reason: one third of people on Twitter follow at least one brand. Still not convinced? What if I told you that studies have shown that the vast majority (67 percent) of Twitter users are more likely to buy from the brands that they follow on Twitter, that almost four in five (79 percent) recommend those same brands and 69 percent go to follow other brands based of the recommendations of others.
Twitter users are the least literate internet users in social networking, reveals a new study from Brandwatch and mycleveragency.
However, while users of Twitter are prone to misspelling words and leaving out punctuation altogether, certainly more than their counterparts on Facebook and Google+, they’re also part of an evolution in English language that is re-shaping how we communicate online.
What’s in a tweet?
Quite a lot, actually, and certainly more than “just” 140 characters (or less). Each tweet that is published on Twitter – and more than one billion are now sent every 2-3 days on the popular micro-blogging platform – is made up of a number of different elements, called metadata, only some of which are visible on the surface.
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