Library Of Congress To Acquire Entire Twitter Archive
The U.S. Library of Congress, (the biggest library in the world) announced this morning via its official Twitter account that it will be acquiring the entire archive of public Twitter tweets since the inception of Twitter. The Library has a massive printed collection as well as an extensive collection of other digital assets.
Readwriteweb opines that:
“The Library does extensive work with data format standards, the semantic Web and other platforms for outside analysis. The addition of Twitter into the organization’s offerings could foster an enormous amount of academic research. From a new kind of historical record to an unprecedented opportunity for discovering patterns of social interaction, this is big.”
Twitter Growth and Statistics Announced By Founders
Twitter organized a developer conference called Chirp, in SanFrancisco on Apr’14 – 15.
Here are few takeaways from Evan Williams’ (one of the founders) keynote.
Twitter statistics:
- Twitter has nearly 106 Million registered users
- 180 Million unique visitors.
- 300,000 signups per day
- 55 Million tweets/day
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1500% growth each year for the last 3 years
- 75% of traffic comes from outside twitter.com, through 3rd party apps etc
- 3 Billion requests a Day via Twitter API
Twitter Priorities:
- 0 – Infrastructure
- 1 – Friction
- 2 – Relevance – realtime, most relevant info & geographic relevance
- 3 – Revenue – Organic, user-beneficial & eco-friendly
Twitter Goal:
Twitter goal is to grow the user base by enhancing basic twitter experience because it improves the context of the service.
What can we expect in the near future?
Ev revealed that twitter is going to be rolling out more location specific features. (something nearly similar to Foursquare & Gowalla, though he said “We’re not trying to duplicate Foursqare and Gowalla. What we care about is what is happening in that place. Not just where you are.”)
Podcamp Toronto 2010
Podcamp Toronto, 2010 is this weekend, on feb 20th & 21st at Ryerson University. The schedule seems to be awesome. Check it out here http://2010.podcamptoronto.com/schedule/
PodCamp Toronto 2010 is a FREE “unconference” bringing together professionals and hobbyists from Toronto and the surrounding area to explore the cutting edge of new and social media. If you are an online content creator – hobbyist and professionals – who are building communities online in a variety of ways, then PodCamp Toronto 2010 is for you. Share ideas, discuss theories and learn lessons from an audience of experts. Network, network, network.
Want to register?? Here is the link —- http://2010.podcamptoronto.com/register/
I will be hanging around the halls.. if you see me, say hi 
12 tools to measure social media marketing
Businesses have been unsure of ways to measure social media campaigns, social media ROI and syncing the stats, if any, to sales data and vice versa. Here are 12 tools that I came across that can be used to track the effectiveness of your social media campaigns.
One important fact one needs to remember here is, Social media optimization is not a number race. Businesses need to focus on growing brand awareness, customer acquisition, engagement, interaction, conviction, retention, sales, profits, and customer satisfaction rates.
So without further delay, here is the list of tools I promised.
Google Analytics: Free tool to track and report on a company’s Web site usage and online marketing activities.
TwitterAnalyzer: Free online tool analyzes a company’s influence on Twitter, including number of daily Tweets, users who are re-Tweeting your messages and their unique reach.
HootSuite: Popular free service manages and analyzes multiple Twitter users and accounts. New iPhone app links HootSuite account to mobile phone.
Radian6: Sophisticated tool that tracks conversations about competitors and share of mentions, among other metrics. Pricing starts at $500 a month per profile and $100 a month per user.
ViralHeat: Delivers real-time data from video sites, microblogging platforms and Web sites. Prices range from $9.99 a month to $139.98 a month.
Bit.ly: Free URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources and what time clicks occur.
Scoopler: Free real-time search engine that organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens through blogs and major social networks.
TweetMeme Analytics: Similar to Google Analytics, the app is useful if you use TweetMeme’s re-Tweet buttons on your site. Prices begin at $50 per domain per month.
PostRank Analytics: Suite of tools to measure social engagement on other platforms and services. Shows messages and comments from other sites that contribute to your statistics. Prices begin at $9 a month.
Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on Twitter at no charge.
Xinureturns: Provides a free overview of your Web site presence on popular search engines and social networks.
Omniture: Captures, stores and analyzes digital transactions from Web sites and other online channels as well as offline channels such as point-of-sale promotions and call centers. Prices vary per user.
Get Updates From Top 10 Blogs – blogs.com
What is Blogs.com?Blogs.com is a new service from blogging company Six Apart that helps you discover the best in blogs. You can quickly and easily find blogs by category and topic or read daily blog roundups of some of the best blog content around the Web. Top 10 Lists from celebrity bloggers and influencers also help you discover new blogs, and everyone is invited to create their own Top 10 lists to share with the community. Blogs.com also produces a free weekly email newsletter so you can get the best in blogs delivered to your inbox. To get the weekly Blogs.com newsletter, use the subscription form on the right.
How are the blogs chosen on Blogs.com?
A team of editors scours the Web each day to find the best blogs and blog posts and features them on the site in categories ranging from Life, Entertainment, Technology, News & Politics and Business. More categories are coming soon. We don’t use an algorithm to find the most linked to posts or most trafficked blogs – we have editors reading blogs and finding the interesting voices and posts to highlight. If your goal is to find the best in blogs, you’ve come to the right place. Got a favorite blog that’s not featured on the site? Tell us: editor@blogs.com.
How can I have my blog featured on Blogs.com?
If you’d like to be included in a category (such as Life, Entertainment, Technology, News & Politics or Business) tell us why. Use our Submit Your Blog form.
New Social Networking Site – Yootag
<a href=”http://www.yootag.com” target=”_blank”>YooTag</a> is a lightweight social networking and micro blogging application. We are currently undergoing Beta stage 1, and working behiind the scenes on Beta stage 2. We are open to all suggestions and requests for new features. Just message Josh your ideas.
It’s easy to use
<strong>URL’s in Posts:</strong> If you want to add an URL into a comment on YooTag wrap it in [url][/url] tags. This will turn the URL into a TinyURL.
If you click the ‘link’ icon just above the comment box it will put the tags in the box for you
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Trackbacks:</strong> These are a way of commenting on someone elses profile, pictures and posts. The post is written on your own profile and links to the post/profile/picture you want to trackback. To trackback something look for this icon and click it trackback
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Embed YouTube Video:</strong> You can embed YouTube Videos in comments using [youtube][/youtube] tags.
You need to put the YouTube video ID inbetween the two tags, you can get this by going to YouTube, finding the video you want to embed and grab the ID from the URL. The URL will look something like this
Automated Social Networking – Scoutie
<a href=”http://scoutie.com”>Scoutle</a> is a social network for personal websites and blogs that helps you find and connect with interesting people.
<strong>Features:</strong>
Automated Social Networking
More visitors to your website
PageRanking and recognition
Using statistics, Scoutle is able to rate registered websites automatically and at any time. This means websites that are valuable are not only noticed quickly but also given the attention and recognition they deserve, even when they may not have many visitors.
You create a Scout that will walk all over the Internet for you, searching and indexing interesting websites while in the meantime he promotes your own website. The only thing you have to do, is every now and then login to Scoutle and see his results.
So, your Scout will ‘walk’ over the Internet (like a personal webcrawler) while promoting your website and finding interesting websites for you. In order to make your Scout walk you place a small Stage on your own website. This Stage will be used by Scouts of other users that will not only discover your websites but will also recommend it to others.