A World of Tweets

Geography mashup using HTML5, the Twitter API and Yahoo Places. Be sure to scroll down the page for lots of interesting stats.

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• a world of tweets

What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets

Twitter generates more than 12 terabytes of data a day – that's a lot of tweets. Their head of analytics talks about the kinds of insights they look for in this mountain of information.

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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets

Follow: A New AddThis Labs Experiment

This morning we released a new feature in AddThis Labs called AddThis Follow. You've probably noticed "Follow us on Facebook..." and similar links on various websites you've visited. We thought we'd offer our AddThis publishers an easy way to not only quickly add this feature to their site, but also track clickthroughs to their social profiles right in their AddThis analytics console.

I've added my own Follow menu to this blog, over on the right side of the page.

This new feature supports social profiles on Facebook, Twitter, RSS, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, YouTube and Flickr. Once visitors start using it, I'll be able to go to my AddThis.com analytics, switch from "Sharing" to "Subscribe/Follow" data and track how my visitors are connecting to my various social media profiles.

We'd love to hear what you think of this experiment; would you use it? Are there things you would add or change? Give us your feedback in the AddThis Follow forum.

Get a Follow menu for your own site here:

• AddThis Follow Labs Experiment

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• Justin Thorp's official blog post

Twitter Blog: The 2010 World Cup: a Global Conversation

Beautiful infographic displaying how Twitter usage and content evolved over the course of the World Cup. Enjoy!

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Twitter Blog: The 2010 World Cup: a Global Conversation

Why Hasn't Location Reached the Mainstream Yet?

In spite of apps like Foursquare and Yelp, location based personalization hasn't really been embraced by the public at large. This Mashable article asks why, exploring privacy concerns as a key issue and positing that Facebook and Twitter may be the catalysts for a broader acceptable of these types of technologies.

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• Why Hasn't Location Reached the Mainstream Yet?

Nice mashup: GoPublic

This site is a mix of information from Facebook and Twitter all centered around Public Transportation. Great example of the power of bringing together different kinds of social media about one topic.

GoPublic

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Finally, Twitter Groups

Twitter Lists Competitors Respond: We Can All Get Along

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