Twitter has gained sufficient stickiness in India but I am yet to come across any ‘must-follow’ Twitter application in India. Grocery stores: Few small chain grocery stores are now competing with the biggies these days. They should be tweeting any sale they have and reach out to their customers. Yes, there is a danger of […]
Hacker seems to have brought Twitter down
6:40 PM IST: Few minutes ago I lost my connection to Twitter (thru twitterfox). It doesn’t seem to be just from India but also from US. I was using HootSuite, it cannot retrieve any tweets from my account. I am sure many will feel out of place without twitter. I am doing fine though 🙂 […]
Post Elections: Which netas are still active online?
Few of our politicians had started tweeting during elections. Now that the elections are done who is still active? There was a “plug” in Bangalore Mirror which talked about SM Krishna tweeting and just one sentence about Shashi Tharoor‘s tweets. The only politician who is twittering and very sensibly is Shashi Tharoor. He writes exceptionally […]
Governments hearing tweets loud and clear
Twitter has been lately in the news for political reasons – Iran’s Presidential (rigged) elections. I came across a very funny image related to Twitter and Iranian president today, I doubt Mr. Ahmadinedschad finds it funny! Yesterday Hillary Clinton admitted that Twitter is very important but she has no clue what it is, Clinton said […]
Now, you can tweet in Indian languages
Twitter has been gaining substantial user base from India. Just a year back this article said Twitter was yet to gain popularity in India. In March 2009 the traffic from India went up by 74%, but as the comments in that posting indicates when you start from zero the growth curve always looks impressive. The […]