Active Twitter Users
Twitter: 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts; http://eicker.at/ActiveTwitterUsers
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Understanding and Learning
Drexler: How to understand; http://eicker.at/2a – and learn about everything; http://eicker.at/2c (via @Optimistontour)
Gerrit Eicker
Web Writing
Writing for the Web: 20 tips from Reiss; http://j.mp/8Zws6P (via @mseibert), 20+ papers from Nielsen; http://j.mp/denaAR
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Gerrit Eicker
Reiss: “The truth is, most online readers don’t care much about how web writers tackle grammar, spelling, and punctuation as long as they get the information they need. That said, good grammar does build trust in your organization. Proper spelling does, too – so proofread your text and ask a professional copywriter to look it over if at all possible.”
Reiss’ 20 tips:
1. Kill your darlings
2. Apply George Orwell’s rules
3: Build shared references
4. Write front-loaded paragraphs
5. Accept that people read differently on the Web
6. Respect levels of detail
7. Don’t make things too granular
8. Define your goal
9. Minimize instructions
10. Eliminate ‘happy talk’
11. Be objective
12. Be personal
13. Be concise
14. Avoid secret language
15. Make stuff scanable, skimable, usable
16. Write communicative subheads
17. Write accurate labels
18. Go back and edit your work
19. Remember to write the ‘invisible’ text
20. Don’t let anyone talk you into increasing keyword density for SEONielsen: “Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages.”
Gerrit Eicker
Kiva en Francais
Open source Kiva platform, which can be replicated in other languages: Kiva en Francais; http://j.mp/9FB9qf
Gerrit Eicker
Twitter Across Cultures and Languages
How to handle Twitter when communications spreads across cultures and languages? http://j.mp/dvLqW0 (via @pherwarth)
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Pages: Location and Language Targeting
Publish posts, links, photos, and videos to Facebook fans based on location and language; http://j.mp/87qLUY
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Translates Any Website
Facebook offers its Translations tool to other sites: Translations for Facebook Connect; http://j.mp/194MaQ
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forthespectators
Googles got some competition
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Gerrit Eicker
Indeed. And it’s only one more competitive field between Facebook and Google; http://wp.me/pcOTe-224
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Gerrit Eicker
SL-viewer Gets Translated
The SL-viewer will be live in German, French, Korean, and Japanese soon. 5 more languages to follow; http://is.gd/40Lw
Gerrit Eicker
Blogging in English
Küpers: “If you blog in German only you are not part of the global conversation”; http://is.gd/Oql
Gerrit Eicker 09:55 on 10. September 2011 Permalink |
Twitter: “Five years ago, Twitter came to life when @jack sent the first Tweet to his seven followers. Now, 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what’s happening in the world right now. – More than half of them log in to Twitter each day to follow their interests. For many, getting the most out of Twitter isn’t only about tweeting: 40 percent of our active users simply sign in to listen to what’s happening in their world. – Twitter’s global reach gives a voice to people around the world and as far away as the International Space Station. After launching Hindi, Filipino, Malay and Simplified and Traditional Chinese in the coming weeks, Twitter will support 17 different languages.”
RWW: “If this news sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because the five-year-old microblogging service reached 100 million user accounts awhile ago. These new numbers refer to active users, which CEO Dick Costolo defines as people that sign into Twitter and use the site at least once a month. … In April, Twitter publicly confirmed that it had surpassed 200 million user accounts, a number that has presumably grown since then. This means that at least 50% of Twitter accounts are sitting dormant, according to the company’s own numbers. … The service is being used to publish an average of 230 million tweets per day, which works out to more than a billion tweets every week.”
TNW: “55% of Twitter’s active users are active on mobile, which is an increase of 40% quarter over quarter. Twitter is also getting 400 million unique visitors a month total, this points to a huge number of users that visit Twitter just for information without participating. … Twitter has experienced massive growth this year, bolstered by popular public events like the Womens World cup as well as unrest like the London Riots and disasters like the earthquakes and Tsunami in Japan.”
VB: “Microblogging social network Twitter is in the process of closing a new $400 million funding round, reports CNN Money. – The new funding is the second of two $400 million rounds that puts the startup’s valuation at an estimated $8 billion.”