Drew Carey Bids $25,000 for @Drew Twitter Name

Yesterday we reported that Twitter user and cancer-fighter Drew Olanoff is auctioning his Twitter name, @drew, to raise money for the LIVESTRONG Foundation. He’s enjoying early success: today The Price is Right host Drew Carey placed a bid for $25K, far in excess of the $10K minimum bid. What’s more, Carey says he will pay $100,000 if his current account (@drewfromTV) exceeds 100,000 followers by November 9th. As we wrote of the auction yesterday: [...]

On Twitter, Information Beats Sentiment

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently revealed the results of a study which looked into how people were using Twitter to talk about products. Companies, of course, fear what a negative barrage of tweets can do to their brand, leading many to establish Twitter accounts themselves to provide information [...]

Twitter Labs Coming Soon?

Most Gmail users are familiar with Google Labs, a nifty set of experimental features which aren’t quite ready to be rolled out to all users, but are good enough for a select subset of users who like to try out new things. According to Cnet’s Natali DelConte, Twitter is planning a similar feature for the near future. At the FOWA conference in London, Twitter’s user experience and [...]

Twitter Begins Attaching Locations to Tweets

A little over a month ago, Twitter announced that it would be attaching locations to tweets in an effort to become a stronger geolocation tool. The company said that it would attach a latitude and a longitude to a user’s tweets, if they opted into the geolocation feature. But nobody knew when the feature would go live. It seems that the microblogging company is now ready to roll [...]

Twitter: No Commenting on Retweets at Launch

The issue of “Twitter jacking” someone’s identity has been a hot topic this year. Perhaps the most visible incident was St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa taking Twitter to court over someone else using his identity on the microblogging service. Kanye has also had issues with Twitter imposters, but, what doesn’t he have issues with? In any event, a new case involves a slightly [...]

Twitter: No Commenting on Retweets at Launch

One of the questions that’s remained surrounding Twitter’s upcoming Project Retweet is how exactly (or if) it will be possible to add commentary to retweets under the new functionality. In one of today’s developer panels at 140TC with Alex Payne, the Platform Lead at Twitter clarified the plan to accommodate this [...]

Project Retweet: Are Twitter Users Ready?

We’ve been reporting on the implications of Project Retweet extensively since Twitter announced that were going to officially support retweeting. While on the surface the added retweet functionality is fairly basic, the change has the potential to disrupt the status quo for many users comfortable with the way things are. Mashable’s Ben Parr thinks Project Retweet will change [...]

Washington Post Launches Comedy Series Based on Celebrity Tweets

NewTeeVee turned us on to an entertaining new web series produced by — of all sources — The Washington Post. The new series features 2-minute long episodes with comedically un-profound tweets from celebrities, but staged to a visual representation of a deep and thoughtful dramatic reading. The brainchild of [..]

4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business

Soren Gordhamer writes and consults on ways we can more creatively and effectively use the technologies of our age, including social media. He is the author of “Wisdom 2.0″ (HarperOne, 2009). You can follow him on Twitter at @SorenG. Social media is helping to forge a new era in business transparency and engagement, creating both new challenges and opportunities. Gone [...]