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  • Twitter closes down Posterous

    Twitter closes down Posterous

    Sad to see good products go down and fade to oblivion. I received an email from Posterous, saying that the service was closing down so the staff could focus more on Twitter. Here’s an excerpt from that email – Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect […]

  • Peerindex, Klout Beware!

    People who are in Social Media would already know of influence monitoring tools such as Klout, Peerindex, and Rapportive. I started using Klout the minute I discovered it using the Rapportive add-on for Firefox. Measuring and monitoring your klout score seemed cool. Soon after that I chanced on Peerindex as well. The approaches employed by […]

  • Twitter Analytics

    Was listening through a podcast by Duct Tape Marketing on Web Analytics 2.0 by Avinash Kaushik. It started of as an interview promoting his new book on analytics powered through crowdsourcing. Towards the fag end of the interview, something that Avinash said really got my attention. Most people treat Twitter as a shout channel. Please […]