Josh Highland » twitter http://joshhighland.com/blog the living internet Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:48:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I can’t wait to be a dad one day http://joshhighland.com/blog/2010/11/15/i-cant-wait-to-be-a-dad-one-day/ http://joshhighland.com/blog/2010/11/15/i-cant-wait-to-be-a-dad-one-day/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:24:07 +0000 Josh Highland http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=14555

social media parenting comic I cant wait to be a dad one day

]]> http://joshhighland.com/blog/2010/11/15/i-cant-wait-to-be-a-dad-one-day/feed/ 1 20% of Twitter updates are about brands http://joshhighland.com/blog/2009/10/28/20-of-twitter-updates-are-about-brands/ http://joshhighland.com/blog/2009/10/28/20-of-twitter-updates-are-about-brands/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:31:10 +0000 Josh Highland http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=931

twitter bird money eyes 20% of Twitter updates are about brandsTwitter is wildly popular and dominates the social media space. Penn State University recently conducted a study and found that 20% of all tweets (twitter updates) contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.

Twitter, with its six million active daily users (and predictions of more than 20 million users by the end of the year) is

“about as close as one can get to the customer point of purchase for products and services”

according to Jim Jansen, an associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State.

You can read the entire case study here

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If I love Twitter and the Fail Whale enough to get a tattoo, TwitterInk.com , I had to get this shirt from INRI Clothing. I present “Jonah and the Fail Whale”. This is possibly my favorite shirt.

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JoshHighland TwitterJohna 502x1024 Jonah and the Fail Whale

Tried ducking the Lord & bailed on going 2 Nineveh. Headed 2 Tarshish from Jaffa. Thrown ovErbrd! Saved from drownng by whale. LOL. Godrules!

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Click here to view the embedded video.

Hit me on twitter! @JoshHighland

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Click here to view the embedded video.

Follow me on Twitter! @JoshHighland. When I get 20,000 followers, I will get a Fail Whale tattoo. You can read more about that over at TwitterInk.com

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