@inc twitter handle hacked - half a million followers asked to “shed pounds and get a flat belly you’ve always wanted”.
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Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product. Various Posterous engineers, product managers and more will join the Twitter team and the existing ‘Spaces’ that users have will remain up and running for now.
What’s Up: Exploring the Most Popular Subjects on Twitter
What’s Up features an animated bubble scatterplot to convey a visual overview of Twitter’s most popular conversation subjects in time.
Heading back to school? On Twitter? Then this cartoon of the day is for you… Remember to enter this week’s cartoon caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
Of the users who are active on Twitter daily: 72% publish blog posts at least once a month 70% comment on others’ blog posts 61% write at least one product review a month 61% comment on news sites 56% write articles for third-party sites 53% post videos online 50% make contributions to wiki sites 48% share deals found through coupon forums In essence: What happens on Twitter doesn’t stay on Twitter. (via Twitter users are more likely to impact your brand than any other social network)
