Twitter flock out in the heat for regular neighborhood cleanup effort
The Twitter flock was out in the heat cleaning up the company’s mid-Market neighborhood and other parts of the city today as part of an ongoing “Friday For Good” volunteerism project. Twitter vowed to...
View ArticleTwitter fakes real users’ tweets to promote ad platform
What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers’ mouths to promote its new ad platform? Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of...
View ArticleTwitter: ‘We deeply apologize’ for faking real users’ tweets to promote new...
Twitter has released a statement saying “we deeply apologize” for faking tweets from real users for a mockup promoting an ad platform. The fake tweets in the mocked-up graphic (above) portrayed Twitter...
View ArticleOne-third of all Americans checked Facebook on a mobile device in June
The metrics that social media companies trot out don’t necessarily reflect reality. We asked comScore to show us actual user numbers for June. “Just because someone’s a registered user doesn’t mean...
View Article10 best tweets about Twitter IPO
Of course Twitter tweeted its IPO, and users tweeted right back. [View the story "The 10 best Twitter IPO tweets" on Storify]
View ArticleTwitter posts inaccurately high metrics about its ads, changes them after...
UPDATE: After Twitter addressed bad metrics in a company blog touting the performance of Twitter ads, there is apparently another metrics discrepancy in the same post. The blog posted bad metrics...
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