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It looks like 2009 may be the year of the Twitter Squatters. As the populatiry of the service grows, many organizations and companies will find someone esle already grabbed their Twitter handle. Grab yours before it’s too late!
Confirming what we already knew, Yahoo News has an interesting article on the accelorating death spiral of the newspaper industry.
Twentysomethings cannot envision life without Facebook and think they will use it as they grow older.
Julia Angwin has some tips on how to build a following on Twitter in this weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. My advice? Stick with it and truly dedicate yourself to engaging in an online dialogue—even if it sometimes feels like a million monologues going on at once—and integrate Twitter will all you other social media environments.
No company or entrepreneur today, upon launching a new newspaper, would actually spend the absurd sums of money required to print the thing on paper and deliver it to households. They would launch a Web-only news product, right? Well, maybe. I see a path that leads to the death of the news Website, as well.
Check out the Congressional Tweetstream at TweetCongress.org. It’s fun to guess which members are Tweeting themselves, and which Tweets are processed through staff.
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