For months now we’ve been compiling data on upcoming films as they have been discussed within social media, looking at conversational volume, sentiment, and viewing interest so that we may have a good idea as to what’s going to be hot and what’s going to be a flop. Now it seems that someone else is on the scent as well. Word came to us last week via Mashable, the most obsessive social media news site on the web, that a study had been published demonstrating how Twitter has a high predictive power when it comes to box office performance. Suffice it to say, we weren’t too surprised.

As covered by Wired.com, Greg Rewis and Stephanie Sullivan (@hughart and @theunderwire) tied the knot on April 1st. Throughout the ceremony, family transcribed their vows in tweet form to share their special event with faraway friends, and ultimately the twitterverse. The tech-savvy couple made it possible for you to follow the event as well as send well wishes using the #tweetwed hashtag.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or lack a Gmail account), there’s no doubt you’ve heard of, tested or been genuinely confused by the launch of Google Buzz. One morning in February, I opened my Gmail account and there it was- 35 “buzz” notifications. “I must be popular”, I thought. After clicking into these messages, I realized I was not very popular, I was just inundating myself with more general useless knowledge about people I would have genuinely not heard from until my 20 year high school reunion. AWESOME.

A few weeks ago we interviewed Shel Israel about his new book Twitterville. Twitterville is less a business manual than it is a collection of short success stories. The book is so effective because of the personal, one-on-one style with which it is written. It is both entertaining and informative, and while reading it you [...]

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Today marks our first interview with an author who is focused on the ever changing world of social media. Shel Israel is the author of the new book, Twitterville, in which he describes personal accounts of successful Twitter use cases. To read more background on his book, please visit his blog. According to his bio, [...]

Like so many other Coloradans, I love to spend as much of the snowy months in the mountains as possible. How is a girl to decide when and where to go? The proof is in the pudding – snow or no snow will be the deciding factor in whether or not people flock to the [...]

RT: Great post by Remarkablogger Michael Martine outlining the top twitter faux pas made by marketers, summed up in the following paragraph. The advice may seem like common sense but is a great reminder of why the word social appears in the wikipedia entry for twitter. “If I could distill these five points down to [...]

Looking for tips on how to make Twitter work for your business? Here’s a quick fifty ideas from Chris Brogan’s blog. The tips are broken down into categories such as: first steps, what to tweet, and the Twitter-positive arguments to the most common Twitter cons you’ll come across. The post is a great primer for [...]

Just like the semantic web I think Twitter would benefit tremendously from introducing a micro markup language that monitoring tools could use to pick up data more accurately. It’s a fairly hard problem to parse blogs and tag them with semantic and qualitative data. Now think about shrinking that text down to 140 characters and [...]