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What’s the value of Twitter to a business these days?
Still wondering how to use Twitter to bring value to your business? Well, Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, an investor in Twitter, says he has at least part of the answer. Wilson says it’s all in the power of what he calls passed links.
Essentially, Wilson believes twitter equals traffic, because tweets usually have links in them that are typically minimized by using sites like bit.ly and tinyurl. Since the person sending you the link is likely a trusted source – an assumption we make if you are following them – users are more likely to click.
Many companies worldwide are seeing a growth in the source of traffic coming from social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Getting a great user experience from Kingston On The Edge
Kingston On The Edge brings a vibrant energy to the city’s art and music this week as it has done in the past two years. The brand is bigger now, and seems set to become a permanent fixture in the life of Kingston.
This week a packed schedule of entertainment and art showings will keep the young and the hip busy as venues all over town get involved (See Schedule on this page). There is Dance on the Edge at Philip Sherlock Centre, Gallery Hop at Revolution, Bolivar and Mutual galleries.
There is a film night at Red Bones a second Red Rubberband Mural project and an artist open house in Stony Hill.
To share or not to share
Peter Bunting, General Secretary of the People's National Party, unknowingly at the time, stepped into a fire when he shared comments on his facebook profile quoting Albert Einstein’s “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results" and Martin Luther King’s “A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.”
How New Media Broke Bunting's Big Story
It is a sure sign that old media isn’t breaking the news anymore, and a coup for Facebook in Jamaica. Peter Bunting’s simple share could cost him his PNP job, a clear indication of the power of social media, of which Facebook is the largest.
The story is a perfect example of how this now ubiquitous aspect of the Internet works. The action is with the audience. It was people’s response to Bunting’s posting that brought both the old media scrambling late to the story and the PNP’s wrath.
Blog Jamaica ranks high on Twitter
Blogjamaica is now #4 on Twitter in Jamaica, according to the tracking tool twitterholic.com which tracks followers on the leading social media.
Blog Jamaica is a collection of blogs from around the world with Jamaican content. Anyone can submit their blog to be added to this website via the contact form. Our analytics show that Twitter represents 22 % of visitors to the planet (an aggregator for blogs).
Panmedia put Blog Jamaica on Twitter three weeks ago to market the site to users interested in a wide range of voices on Jamaica. Each time a new blog post appears on the site, a link is then posted on Twitter, which followers can click to get directly to the article.
