Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Crazy things about twitter

1.Curiously enough the above user sent one of her suicide tweets to Demi Moore. The actress retweeted it to her thousands of followers, and people started calling the San Jose police. The police located the person and took her to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.


2.Izea decided to take the whole Twitter marketing thing to the next level and launched a pay per tweet service. Advertisers basically select Twitter users from the Izea market place and pay for tweets that will include a promotional message.

3.A company called Redmonk actually made an official job offer to a candidate via Twitter. Luckily this time things worked out fine, and he (@tomraftery) also accepted it via Twitter.

4.Twitter played a role in Moldova’s protests back in April, as young residents used the service to mobilize gatherings in the “Piata Marii Adunari Nationale” square (they used the hashtag #pman for that).