An explosive start that even surpassed Facebook’s stratospheric launch; highly-used by an incredibly engaged audience; simple, and free. What potential… spoiled. Twitter has become a nearly useless tool, overrun by chatter and incoherent missives of daily nonsense, overt narcissism, and celebrity worship. Cluttered with ads, celebrity Retweets, trolling venom, and nonsense about nonsense, Twitter is ineffectual, […]
Finally, after years of waiting on what will become of their billion dollar purchase of Yammer, Microsoft finally provided a short-term vision of Yammer. First off, Yammer Enterprise is being killed. But it will be integrated into Office 365. Yammer Enterprise service tier will be going away on January 1, 2017. That’s in three months. […]
I bet you thought I was going to tell you what technology to buy (or download for free) to power your intranet 2.0? I wouldn’t know where to begin… There are now thousands of social media technology solutions in the market; a few hundred credible solutions; dozens of strong emerging vendors of note (social media […]
Twitter earns a lot of praise and recognition for developing one of the most powerful and popular web tools to date. However, its increasingly visible problems are frustrating users and pundits who are demanding satisfaction – or an alternative. However, Twitter's problems aren't easily fixed. In fact, there are 5 major problems plaguing Twitter: 1- […]
Different platforms, with different approaches, serving different needs… but both are highly viral and are used for social networking. Facebook is the most successful social networking website / platform and, depending on the rankings, the 2nd – 5th most visited website on the planet. Well down the traffic rankings list is Twitter at somewhere around […]
Barrack Obama has 282,000 followers (though his minions have only Tweeted on his behalf a mere 2x since the election); Shaquille O'Neal has 93,000 followers; and I have a mere 210 after four months of active