The Brinkwire Blog

Tim Bradshaw of the FT has just tweeted to say the Manchester United press office is refuting claims in today’s blogs that players have been banned from Twitter. Tim quotes the Man U press office sa saying; “Entirely up to them.” Paid Content has a good write up which asks “Is Manchester United the next [...]

This story has made it all the way across the globe to a snowy Scotland. Seems the local residents in Jersey are also suffering from some unwelcome snowfall too. Local radio DJ (with the rather awesome name of Ravie Rave) noticed the authorities hadn’t shoved her 65-year-old father’s pavement she did something about it. What [...]

Take a minute to think about the fate of poor Iain Tait. Ian’s author of the rather good Crackunit blog and is currently unable to use Twitter due to a swarm of users who thinks he can get them a Google Wave invite. He can’t. It started off well. A friend wanted to commend Iain [...]

Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister is doing very well on Twitter. She has the highest number of followers for any British “well known” and has sent more than a thousand tweets. This perked the interest of the BBC News. Rob Brown, the MD of PR agency Staniforth, was lucky enough [...]

The Reuters UK blog has added a Twitter widget to their sidebar. A few months ago we might have presented this news as evidence of the impact Twitter is having on the media. Not today. Today my first thought was that this was a good move as it helps convince readers that the @reuters_co_uk Twitter [...]

Industry leader Brian Solis has published a write up of points raised by a virtual conference of thought leaders on the thorny issue of sponsored conversations of twitter. Here’s the first paragraph; In light of the FTC’s recent scrutiny of Social Media practices and the activity that connects brands to influencers and ultimately consumers, we [...]

Fancy some easy money? If you’ve the inside scoop on who’s been sharing Twitter passwords around then the Inquisitr’s Duncan Riley is the man for you. At the start of the week the former TechCrunch writer threw together an odd but understandable blog post – Twitter needs to act urgently on direct message spam. What [...]

Muck Rack are going great guns today with news of the Tweet PR service. You pay $1 a character and have to pay at least $50. They’re followed by about 3,500 people and many of those are journalists. The concept is that busy journalists want to scan quickly for a story and get on with [...]

Just in time for the weekend Mark Drapeau (@cheeky_geeky) was able to serve up a classic case of a successful PR agency suffering the public embarrassment of some public miss steps in the social media field. As is often the case we found the comments in posts like this to be riveting. In particular Rachel [...]

Last night Michael Arrington of TechCrunch glory announced they had been sent 301 confidential documents from Twitter via a contact known as Hacker Croll. They had Twitter’s security code for the building. They had details of failed interviews. Right from the outset Arrington made it clear he wouldn’t publish any of that stuff. He would, [...]