While some disparage Twitter as a waste of time for people who want to share info about what they ate for lunch with the masses, Twitter has also become big business and has been used for downright serious purposes such as communications among protesters and the rest of the world during unrest in the Middle East recently. Reports have surfaced recently that companies like Google and Facebook have pursued buying Twitter for as much as $10 billion.
UberMedia, after getting its popular UberTwitter and other mobile social media apps shut down Friday by Twitter for alleged terms of service breaches, is reportedly changing its name to UberSocial as part of its effort to meet Twitter's terms.
Twitter says it suspends "hundreds of applications" that violate its privacy and other API policies, but it was the microblogging site's suspension of the popular UberMedia UberTwitter, UberCurrent and twidroyd apps that sparked a big social media to-do.
The term "#ubertwitter" jumped to the front of the Twitter trending topics line ahead of "Queen Gaga" and the Radiohead-related "Thomas Yorke" and "Lotus Flower" as word spread of the popular mobile Twitter client's at least temporary shutdown (for good measure, ubertwitter also was among the top 10 Google searches this afternoon). UberTwitter users flooded Twitter with pleas -- often colorfully worded -- to sort things out.
S/N: For many who doesn't know, Twitter ranks number 2 in the search engine department these days.
Search engine rankings per month:
* Google: 88 billion per month
* Twitter: 19 billion per month
* Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month
* Bing: 4.1 billion per month
Twitter does 18 billion searches a month, working off the 600 million per day figure? Williams said the monthly figure is closer to 19 billion.
So as you can see, Twitter is a must in my opinion if you are engaged in any type of social media at all. It's all in how you apply Twitter to your brand that makes it useful & beneficial.
Hit me up for any Twitter questions.
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