We Are Social People

Goodbye CoTweet… As many of you know, CoTweet decided to sunset on February 15. “With the launch of SocialEngage, ExactTarget will discontinue our free edition of social media management software February 15. Brands currently using the free edition will receive an email later today with an exclusive invitation to participate in a free trial of SocialEngage [...]

You may have heard that CoTweet will be sun setting today after being bought out by ExactTarget in March 2010. CoTweet, which went into public beta in July of 2009, was first developed due to the high demand from business people who were badly in need of a real time communication channel for both their internal and external communication purpose. They [...]

I often check the “via” link on most tweet’s sent. Probably because I run a social media dashboard, but I’ve been spotting some trends.  Less and less people are using Tweetdeck. Let me start off with this: I have great respect for Tweetdeck. It’s a great ‘end-user’ app for the consumer, for the Twitter power [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept 26, 2011 MarketMeSuite Secures Investment and Offers its Premium Dashboard for Free MarketMeSuite, the feature-packed social media application which enables subscribers to manage their marketing campaigns on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin from an intuitive desktop application, has announced it will be releasing its “premium” dashboard free of charge after closing a [...]

Last week Twitter announced that effective in the next update, Deck.ly was being taken out of all Tweetdeck products. This was done as “part of the process of making Tweetdeck more consistent with Twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile apps,” according to the tweet sent on the subject. This is contrary to Iain Dodsworth’s comment less than [...]

Today the next web reported that TweetDeck has updated its applications across all platforms and the death of Deck.ly will come as a result. The next web went on to say : “The fate of Deck.ly itself, it seems, is a bit up in the air. It would makes sense that Twitter would keep Deck.ly around [...]

About 6 hours ago it was reported that Twitter bought Tweetdeck to the tune of $40 Million.  According to TechCrunch: “It seems that Twitter just wasn’t comfortable with allowing UberMedia to snatch another chunk of market share. After all, Twitter can’t just go allowing Twitter-related startups and products to fall into the hands of those [...]

There’s a lot of guessing going on about whether Tweetdeck will sell to UberMedia, or whether Twitter will come on and defensively buy Tweetdeck, if nothing else, to kill it.  Mike Butcher, in his recent TechCrunch article, points out how important he feels it is for Twitter to acquire this piece of software: Choices: UberMedia buys Tweetdeck, thus [...]