I was at the Ad Age Digital Conference in NYC last week when Twitter COO Dick Costolo did the “big reveal” and announced that Twitter finally had a revenue model:  Sponsored Tweets.  Twitter Blog
While the announcement certainly caused a stir in the twittersphere and blogosphere, including a visit to the conference by CNBC reporters, all [...]

Is Twitter a Mental Vacuum?.  Good article on the relevance and importance of the (sometimes gibberish) that is taking place on Twitter.  Is only 27% of the information “useful”?  There’s an awful lot of talking about ourselves taking place… what you had for breakfast, where you’re  doing, where you’re going, etc…  We need a tool [...]

According to Mashable, Google’s launch of real-time search for the entire world is imminent.  Already available in via  clicking on any “Hot Topic” under Google Trends, soon to be rolled out in full.
To feed the real-time search results, Google has done deals with not only Twitter but also Facebook and MySpace to incorporate real-time search [...]

The latest data suggests traffic to Twitter is on the decline.  I think measuring the site, misses the point and I think traffic is simply “shifting” to other applications (since Twitter has worked itself into so many apps).  I for one, rarely use the site anymore, I use TweetDeck from my computer, I use Yoono [...]

Kudos to Eli Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis, J&J and Pfizer for stepping up to the plate and actively participating in the upcoming FDA hearings on social media. View agenda and participants. Kudos to the FDA on holding the open forum and recognizing that this medium IS different and requires a new set of guidelines. [...]

The Digital Pharma conference was probably more aptly named “Twitterfest”. If there is any rationalization to the billion dollar valuation that Twitter recently received, it has to be based on pure momentum and the world’s best viral marketing campaign. If someone was counting, I think the words “Twitter, tweet, twittersphere, etc…” were mentioned [...]

As Twitter struggles to find a business model, parents with autistic children are beginning to use it for tracking the timing and severity of autistic episodes… hmmm… what other medical applications could there be?

CNBC and others are reporting this morning that Google is very close to a deal to buy Twitter. According to Tech Crunch, the logic behind this deal is that Twitter threatens to be the first company to “out Google, Google” with the searching of the real time threads being a powerful new type of search…. [...]

Courtesy of a Craig DeLarge Twitter…
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