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Stephen Colbert Wins Twitter!

in Media on December 15, 2010 at 4:20 am PT

Not sure what that means, but that is a cool-looking trophy. Click through for video in which Colbert addresses the elephant in the room.

Is the Facebook "Like" Button Like a Twitter RT? Loic Le Meur Talks About the Impact of the Giant Moves on Start-Ups

in News on April 27, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Here’s an interesting interview BoomTown did with Seesmic Founder and CEO Loic Le Meur, whose status update client is one of the more popular ones, at the Facebook f8 developers conference last week. In it, he talked about the various new features of Facebook that make it “very, very close to Twitter.” While it is true that Seesmic is more than just a Twitter client, Le Meur has to hope that competition between the microblogging service and the social networking giant is a good thing for smaller start-ups in their ecosystem, such as Seesmic.

LIVE from New York: Twitter Pitches Ads to Madison Avenue

in Media on April 13, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

Twitter has quietly been reaching out to marketers about its new ad platform for a few months, but now it’s a full-fledged marketing blitz. COO Dick Costolo takes his marketing message to ad buyers.