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Amazon gears up to make money from Twitter
LONDON - Amazon has integrated Twitter with its affiliate programme in a bid to increase sales.
The Case Against Twitter Lists
The Case Against Twitter Lists
mediabistro.com — Recently Twitter announced a new capability that has been built into the software: lists. Lists "make it... easier to curate tweets into meaningful real-time experiences on your own sites via the Lists API," says the Twitter blog . But personally, I ... (more) The Case Against Twitter Lists
UK Journos now on Twitter List
prblogger.com — Last night Twitter (finally) gave me permission to access its new List feature that’s been buzzing around... the Twittersphere lately. In a nutshell, Twitter Lists allows a users to create lists of other users … in fact, that’s not in a nutshell; that’s pretty much what the ... (more) UK Journos now on Twitter List
Making sense of the Twitter explosion with geolocation
community.brandrepublic.com — Twitter is about to make life a whole lot easier to navigate, with the introduction of what... it is calling Geolocation, which will help finding meaningful information when searching (ever harder even with hashtags) a whole lot easier as the number of tweets inexorable rises. Geolocation ... (more) Making sense of the Twitter explosion with geolocation
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