Category Archives: twitter

Cats or Dogs: Which is the most popular on the web?

By Jonathan | Published: November 14, 2008
After Jemima Kiss pointed us in the direction of some live puppies yesterday, so began a quick conversation about cats and dogs and their respective popularity on the web. Bobbie Johnson quickly stepped in proclaiming that cats are for nerds and making sure we’d seen i has a HOTDOG and FailDogs. Robin reminded us of [...]
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Faceparty to users: F*ck the Haterz

By Jonathan | Published: June 24, 2008
Ages ago an article in Marmalade magazine (RIP) really struck a chord with me – it predicted that people would get sick of nice brands like Innocent and start wanting to be treated a bit rougher. The ‘nasty brand’ would begin to emerge, one that gave it back once in a while, took the [...]
Also posted in hate, human, trends | 2 Comments

Facing the reality of PR perception on the web

By Jonathan | Published: May 29, 2008
UPDATE – I’ve created PR Fail as a way to help people face the reality of the perception of PR on the web, be better and stop doing bad things. A ’see what happens’ thing. UPDATE 2/6 – it’s still going on and this time there’s accusations flying around about the integrity of the [...]
Also posted in pr, thoughts | 6 Comments

Nice one Frank

By Jonathan | Published: May 8, 2008
Yes, I know . . . another post about Twitter, just like the one before and like so many others right now. But, just wanted to acknowledge this great example of a massive company using Twitter really well as a way of keeping an eye out for customers with problems and doing everything it can [...]
Also posted in future, social media, thoughts | 1 Comment

£12 a year on Twitter? Vote!

By Jonathan | Published: April 29, 2008
Just a thought, but if everyone who used Twitter regularly paid £1 per month for the privilege, then Twitter would get get £2.4 million ($4.7 million) a year. And that’s based on the stats from Techcrunch that claim 200,000 active users and 1 million registered users, so if anything that figure is low. The current growth [...]
Also posted in advertising, thoughts | 4 Comments

First Twitter marriage proposal! (she said yes)

By Jonathan | Published: March 20, 2008
UPDATE: Wired has ran something on this and it looks like it’s the SECOND Twitter marriage proposal! I’m offline for a few hours and look what I miss – what must surely be the first ever marriage proposal done via Twitter. Congratulations Emily and Max! Quite literally everything is happening on Twitter these days.
Also posted in human, love, random | 2 Comments

Twittertrix

By Jonathan | Published: March 18, 2008
Drew just pointed me in the direction of the Twitter Fan Wiki. It’s a nice resource for everything Twitter, as you’d expect. Amongst everything on there I came across this – a Matrix-like Japanese mash-up of Tweets (done by this guy). Pretty nice me thinks. Which reminds me, have you seen this blog – Stuff White [...]
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