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Tweets Grew 1,400% Last Year

According to Twitter on Feb 24, 2010 tweople were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, 300,000, and by 2009, 2.5 million per day! Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. As for age … Read more

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What the Heck is Google Buzz?

If you’re wondering what Google Buzz is, here’s a quick explanation. Google Buzz is a new way to share things. It’s built into Gmail. Comments go straight to your inbox and pop up live as the comments come in—like in Tweetdeck. You can import things from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google Reader. You auto follow … Read more

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Number of Users on Websites

As of today here are some of the numbers: Facebook 350 million users (stats vary, some say 400 million) MySpace 130 million users (I find it interesting that MySpace is not being taken seriously lately but it still has this many users!!) Twitter 75 million users Classmates 50 million users LinkedIn 35 million users Flickr … Read more

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The Difference Between Blogs and Newsletters

The word blog comes from a combo of “web” and “log.” A newsletter tends to list upcoming events and news related to an organization. Newsletters range from weekly, to monthly to quarterly. Blogs tend to be updated much more frequently. The most popular blogs are updated at least one time per day. Blogs have become … Read more

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Twitter and Me

I can’t get enough of reading what writers have to say on social media, marketing, writing articles, driving traffic to websites. I love this stuff! Ok, shuttin down for the night. I wish all tweople happy tweets! ciao4now.

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High Score on Twitter Ranking!

Hi. I just checked myself out on Twitter Grader to see how my tweeting is going. I’m giddy with news. I rank HIGH! My grade is 95.5 out of 100 and my ranking is 277,803 out of 6,169,444!! Can i get a woo hoo?

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Key Words and Phrases

How often words appear on Twitter (source: tweetvolume.com): web: 57,200,000 socialmedia: 5,270,000 marketing: 3,660,000 design: 3,410,000 entrepreneur: 699,000

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Internet Statistics

Want to know how many people you can network with on the Internet? I did. Here’s what I found out: Source: sastisfactionsecrets.com 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse). 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009) 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base … Read more

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Sunday afternoon

Man, i loved today! Worked on an article today about stress during tax season. Went shopping at Whole Foods (or Whole Paycheck as some call it). Came home, cooked, fed dog, chatted on the tel with my pal Janice, read a ton of tweets and said yes to friend requests. A good day. Hope yours … Read more

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2010 American Society of Journalists & Authors Conference

This year’s conference title is “Inspiration: Finding the Spark, Unlocking the Doors.” This is the 39th Annual ASJA writers conference. Open to the Public April 24–25. Members only: April 23–25. Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street @ Corner of Madison Avenue, NYC. Click here for more info.

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