We don't want to beat a dead horse regarding how hot Twitter is, but the data from an independent tweet-counting service is so compelling we just had to share.
Don't you hate it when perfectly good hypotheses are proven wrong? The media measurement folks at Nielsen had just such an experience when they postulated that increased social network use would decrease email use. But that's not what happened, at least according to Nielsen's quick 'n dirty review of the data. VP of Media Analytics Jon Gibs explains the methodology:
Microsoft on Wednesday started adding some Twitter posts into Bing search results, gaining a bit of a leg up on competitors even though the capability is limited.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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