Tag Archives: Twitter

Links: data.govt, temporariness, paywall wait

By Julie Starr | Published: November 9, 2009
Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz, a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it looks like the site is [...]
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Why Twitter matters for business

By Julie Starr | Published: October 27, 2009
Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]
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Your chance to participate in a Twittamentary

By Julie Starr | Published: August 24, 2009
This might be interesting. Via RWW’s events guide comes an invitation to participate in a Twittamentary. In this documentary, filmmaker Tan Siok Siok peels away the hype and explores the human dimensions of how lives connect and intersect, and then are affected and changed, as result of encounters on Twitter. Twittamentary is created in the [...]
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Twitter is ‘NZ’s 39th most popular website’

By Julie Starr | Published: August 3, 2009
A couple of pull-outs from Hitwise‘s latest newsletter. Twitter NZ’s 39th most popular website in June;  nzherald.co.nz is media site with most downstream traffic The popularity and growth of Twitter (www.twitter.com), the micro-blogging service, has been astonishing over the past 12 months increasing its market share by over 14 times in All Categories (comparing June [...]
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Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service

By Julie Starr | Published: August 2, 2009
Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service A Wired article about Bit.ly’s plans for growth includes a couple of lines about the url shortening service looking at generating a news service based on tweets. ‘When the world’s 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they’re routed through bit.ly’s [...]
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