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The PR opportunities behind a tweet: @CoryBooker and @BigSixxRaven

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Andrew.

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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 did she [...]

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Staniforth MD walks the BBC through Sarah Brown’s Twitter success

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Andrew.

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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 [...]

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Reuters adds Twitter widget

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by Andrew.

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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 account [...]

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Full disclosure is international and not fair

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

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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 will [...]

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It happens – @duncanriley puts bounty on Twitter spammers

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

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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 was [...]

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TechCrunch caught in Twitter Exposé fire storm

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

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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, however, [...]

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