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4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever

Convince & Convert

” Once Oprah gave Twitter her imprimatur, the service crossed the chasm (6 million members before she joined in April, 2009 and 105 million a year later). A startup wants to change that, however, and enable Twitter to fulfill its promise as a real-time discussion forum. Here are four things Twitter is – or will become.

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

LinkedIns 361% year-over-year growth handily beats Facebooks 56% growth in the same period, according to the latest stats from Nielsen: However many people have pointed out to me that my case is unusual. We are launching in Boston, MA and New Hampshire in June and will expand to the other major markets around the country in Q4 2008 and 2009.

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