The interview goes well, until the 30-year-old interviewer asks him if he had ever used Twitter as part of a marketing campaign. Scavo has no clue what Twitter is. Maybe you’re sitting there looking at Twitter’s “What are you doing?&# Just check into Twitter once or twice a day with these tasks in mind. MORE >>

Not so much for myself, but for my clients — helping them figure out how to get the most marketing bang for their Twitter buck, and showing them ways to build their following and streamline their Twitter time management. Karen Laland: What is the biggest Twitter time waster? Denise Wakeman: Having Twitter open all day. MORE >>

While convincing people that LinkedIn is a good professional tool is not hard, many folks are not using Facebook for anything other than communicating with friends or playing games, and are not using Twitter at all; articulating the business value of Facebook and Twitter to those people can be challenging. Twitter. LinkedIn. MORE >>

Micro-messaging processing company Semiocast has just released research showing that Asia has overtaken North America as the biggest user of Twitter, with 37% of total tweets. This is not because the US is slowing, it is because the rest of the world and particularly Asia is taking up Twitter at an enormous pace. Source : Twitter. MORE >>

The post Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last year I   predicted  that Twitter would become a media company. So I’ll start with this: 2013 will be the year Twitter starts to create, curate, and co-create media experiences on top of its platform. MORE >>