September, 2009

Sep
25

Twitter traffic experiencing quite the rush

By Megan Atkinson

There’s no doubt that Twitter has experienced massive growth in the past year, growing 752 percent in 2008, with a total of more than 4.43 million unique visitors according to Compete. Twitter users range from teens, adults and businesses to celebrities updating their own status. Twitter has not only become a creative blueprint for business’ online marketing campaigns, it has also become a site for breaking news. There’s no telling what new trends the online community will continue to see, but one thing’s for sure, social networking sites such as Twitter are growing rapidly and making quite a splash. Mashable has more or read the full article after the jump.

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Sep
24

‘Project Retweet’ soon to be launched on Twitter

By Megan Atkinson

Twitter plans to formally create a retweet feature for users’ profiles. Retweeting is how Twitter users share interesting tweets from the people they are following. They copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the original person, users usually put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Retweeting has become an important way for followers to link to one another and gain a wider audience. Retweets began as a user-generated feature, and Twitter now plans to add tabs to users’ profiles displaying retweets by others, retweets by you and your tweets, retweeted. Read the full article after the jump or visit Mashable’s Web site for this and related articles.

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Sep
24

180 Design – New Urbanism

180 Design blog snapshot

The New Urbanism Blog for 180 Urban Design offers a clean, easy to read and easy to navigate interface. The point of the design was to make the content and blog posts the main focus of the site. The thick blocks for post dates, and the large dark headers of the same color, focus attention on the information without overwhelming the viewer.

path 180 Design   New Urbanism Along with a new series of articles for the client concerning the benefit of walkable neighborhoods, we created a custom graphic to highlight the series and set it apart from other posts.

180side 180 Design   New UrbanismThe New Urbanism Blog offers viewers several ways to interact with the site, including a shoutbox, comments, YouTube, Twitter, and RSS subscription. Viewer feedback is an important part of any site developed with social media in mind.

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Sep
17

New terms of service prompts Twitter users to advertise brands

By Megan Atkinson

Twitter is a great viral-marketing tool that can quickly spread awareness of your business, its products, and its services. Twitter has found a way to make money and open the door for advertisers by targeting its millions of users. Twitter hopes to bring businesses and individuals together in meaningful and relevant ways as a third-party provider. Social media is attracting interest and growing rapidly, and advertising is a way for Web sites to generate revenue while remaining free for consumers. The entire concept of Twitter is so specific and the discussion is so user-controlled that it should almost be a gift for advertisers. The new terms of service may include advertisements, which may be targeted to the content or information on the services, queries made through the services, or other information. Read the full article after the jump, or on the article’s site.

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