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CoTweet, the easy-to-use and fantastically handy social media tool that lets many individuals to collaborate on publishing content on Twitter, is going the way of the Dodo in a few weeks.
ExactTarget, the company behind the tool, announced on its blog this week that CoTweet is being rolled into a new enterprise package called SocialEngage.   CoTweet will cease to be and SocialEngage will not offer a free service.
The company had not published any pricing information for SocialEngage; it invites users to contact ExactTarget for more information.
The company says: “We want to …

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This infographic describes the top trends on Twitter last year. It’s a snapshot of popular and youth culture. It’s probably an accurate reflection of users’interests; interesting that there are no major brands mentioned (other than sport).

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By now most Twitter users have checked out the ‘new’ Twitter.  It’s taken me a few days because I hardly ever use Twitter’s own platform; I rely on Tweetdeck and TweetCaster. So I was curious to see what everybody is talking about.
The very first thing you notice is a completely new landing page. It’s not ‘Twitter blue’; it’s an orangey-red colour and has a picture of people playing cricket.  Odd.
The timeline includes rich media and key information embedded into tweets, there is a new tool to track @  and # …

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One thing is for certain, Twitter Grader is a lot more volatile than Tweetlevel.  This month the left column has changed significantly from last month, with many new players added and lots of familiar names dropped altogether.  However, the right column, the measure of influence, sees many of the same names as in month’s past. Is this because popularity is fleeting and influence is enduring?  You tell me.
To get in with a chance to be on next month’s ranking be sure you get your Twitter profile listed on Twitter Grader …

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Here’s Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for September 2011, and for the first time every, I REALLY feel like part of community.  That’s because I’ve actually started living full time in Ottawa and have taken a job at Thornley Fallis Communication’s Ottawa office.
It’s been a fun and busy month for me, and I expect this same might be true for a lot of people on these lists.   There are some changes since last month with new entries on both lists. But some of the old favourites are still maintaining their rankings …

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Here’s this month’s Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 rankings. Things in the left-hand column have changed slightly with some new entries and Kelly Rusk pushing me out of the second-place position. Things on the right have changed too.  Overall scores are higher ranging from 72.3 to 86.6; last month’s range was 66.7 to 83.8.  The reason for this change?  Well, there are some new profiles listed which are pushing things up.  And perhaps individuals are using the lazy days of summer to interact with their Twitter communities more?
I first started doing …

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An airline is in trouble after tweeting a photograph that some people deemed racist. Australia’s Qantas posted a photo of two men with their faces painted black and wearing afro wigs to its Twitter feed.
The airline had given the two men free tickets to a major rugby union match for promising dress up as their favourite player Radike Samo who is of Fijian descent.
The two men wore black face-paint and afro wigs for the stunt photo which was tweeted along the comment, “Looks like our Twitter winners of the Bledisloe …

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Twitter’s just announced a new feature that highlights the images users tweet: galleries. The new feature appears on each user’s profile page and shows a scrollable slideshow up to a hundred pictures recently tweeted. A “View All” link opens the images in a larger view against a black background.
User galleries started rolling out earlier this week but hasn’t been released globally yet.
The image gallery works for those who use Twitter’s own image-sharing function, which was launched a few months ago. Photographs posted via third-party tools like TwitPic or  Instagram are …

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There are lots of movers and changes on this month’s Ottawa’s Twitter top 20.  Twitter grader has introduced an Ottawa Elite ranking that I used instead of just checking the geographic list.  This has introduced a number of new profiles to the left hand side of the table (popularity).  It makes me wonder if Grader looks only follower count but I don’t see anything on the website to indicate there’s been any change. All the profiles listed here score 100% on Twitter Grader.
On the right side we see the return …

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I’ve not done these lists for a few months now; it’s about time for another. The reason I do them from time to time is just to see how popularity and influence online can be quite different. That said, these lists are not without their own flaws, despite my best efforts to be objective.  The influence one is particulary challenging because Klout does not rank be geography.  So I’ve checked the Klout ranking of all the the top 20 listed  on the Grader popularity score…then I mixed in the names …