Ina Fried in Mobile on July 18, 2011 at 5:20 am PT
When the Women’s World Cup butts up against theater tickets,
AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried turns to a mobile phone to watch as much of the final match as possible.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 2, 2011 at 11:49 am PT
No question this is one of the biggest news stories in years. Except on the Web, where all of our tweeting and reading and live-streaming about it isn’t generating nearly as much traffic as other big events of the last decade.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.
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Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
Twitter may be a great way to measure buzz, but what gets buzz might be less easy to direct. Take last Sunday’ Super Bowl, for instance. According to the official Twitter blog, users generated more tweets per second during the game (4,064) than during any other sporting event–topping the old record set during the 2010 summer World Cup.
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Peter Kafka in Media on February 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm PT
More fuel for Twitter’s “we work really, really well with big TV events” pitch: News that the service set a new frequency record during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Twitter says users generated a peak of 4,064 tweets per second at the end of the game, eclipsing the old high for televised sports set during last year’s World Cup. But that’s not Twitter’s all-time record, which was set, oddly, in Japan last year on New Year’s Eve.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 28, 2011 at 6:25 am PT
Twitter + big TV events are a natural combination, and one that Twitter has been playing up as it sells itself to advertisers.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Other items besides Justin Bieber made it onto Facebook’s list of 2010 trends in status messages. But don’t think for a second that Bieber didn’t earn his spot on yet another year-end roundup.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.
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Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 28, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. last week signaled it may give up a costly six-year quest to bring broadcast TV to mobile phones and other devices in the U.S. Not too many people are surprised, however, given the reception for mobile-TV services in the country so far.
