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For those of you that do not know The Power of Twitter:

Twitter is a micro-blogging service and social network that allows users to post up to 140 characters per Tweet. According a report by Complete there are approximately 3.5 million unique monthly visitors to Twitter (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter.com/?metric=uv). As of March 2008 total Twitter users was 1+million (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/end-of-speculation-the-real-twitter-usage-numbers/). Similar to that of text-messaging or instant messaging, questions and answers are updated instanteously allowing followers on Twitter to receive information almost before anyone else knows about it.

Case in point:

While attending a meet-up of The Boston Area Internet Marketing and Advertising Group back in July 2008, guest speaker Zach Hofer-Shall, independent Social Media consultant discussed the use and benefit of corporate blogging. During his lecture he mentioned that he knew about the July 2008 California earthquake seven minutes before it hit the news, because of Twitter.

An article from the 60Second Marketer on September 22, 2008 reported that one of the followers of 60SecondTwitter sent a Tweet alert in regards to a suspicious looking piece of luggage at JFK. She checked on CNN and MSN and had seen no other mention of it at the time. Another 60SecondTwitter follower stated that the Twitter commnity is also ahead of the online versions of the NY Times and MSNBC (http://60secondmarketer.com/blog/2008/09/22/twitter-reports-news-faster-than-cnn-msn-nytimes-msnbc/ ).

Twitter has also helped get an American man out of an Egyptian jail in April 2008.

Twitter has helped build brand loyalty and increase traffic to company websites and blogs. Zappos and Comcast are the top two corporate brands that are most referenced in regards to Twitter success case studies. In the cases of Zappos and Comcast Twitter is used for brand monitoring, customer service, and reputation management.

Tweeters can have their Twitter page ranked using Twitterank, a Page Rank for Twitter uses. It uses ''back references'' to determine how valuable of a ''tweeter'' you are in Twitterverse (http://new.twitterank.com/).

Twitter language and definitions

l Twitter — noun. mirco-blogging site at Twitter.com
l Tweet — verb. act of sending a message via Twitter (one who tweets is a Tweeter)
l Re-tweet — verb. to repost another Tweeters tweet via your own twitter page (Tweeters often re-tweet)
l Tweeters — noun. people who have a Twitter account and Tweet
l Tweeps — noun. people who Tweet
l Twitterverse — noun. The world of Twitter
l Twitterville — noun. Twitter.com community
l Tweople — noun. People who Twitter

Learn something new everyday....

Via an email chain this afternoon, I found out what the 12 Days of Christmas and a Partridge in a Pear Tree stand for and wanted to pass it along.

"From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember."

-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas!

Brighton, Massachusetts is a great college city minutes from Boston. The amount of restaurants and bars in Brighton make it a great destination when you are looking for Boston fun, but without having to pay those high Boston prices. Parking is free on the street at night and if you live close it’s about a $10 cab ride, at least from our apartment it is.
The past two Saturdays we’ve found ourselves at The Green Briar located on Washington Street in Brighton. It’s a quaint little Irish pub with good fun and live entertainment on the weekends. I never got the name of the band that played Saturday night, but they were really good. And my friend was pleasantly surprised to find out they served Magner’s Irish Cider.
According to their website http://greenbriarpub.com/greenbriarpub/ there’s traditional Irish Seissun on Mondays, Prime Time Trivia on Tuesdays, and College Quiz night on Wednesdays.
After last call there we all hopped a cab and headed to the Last Drop to finish off our night of drinking then someone mistakenly mentioned IHOP and we all ended up there and ran out of money………………..until next weekend!

Twitter language and definitions

Good Day,

I am working on a campaign and my driving focus is the Twitter push for an organization that is aware that Twitter exists, but currently does not participate.

Please let me know what other Twitter slang I am missing to include in my editorial to the newbies. Comments and feedback GREATLY APPRECIATED.

• Twitter — noun. mirco-blogging site at Twitter.com


• Tweet — verb. act of sending a message via Twitter (one who tweets is a Tweeter)


• Re-tweet — verb. to repost another Tweeters tweet via your own twitter page (Tweeters often re-tweet)


• Tweeters — noun. people who have a Twitter account


• Twitterverse — noun. The world of Twitter