So how did you hear about Twitter? Hudson, Fry or Ross?

January 30, 2009
by Mark Johnson

On January 15th 2009, Twitpic crashed after one of its users, Mr Krums, twittered that a plane had just crashed into the Hudson River. The picture taken on his mobile phone was soon sent around the world and Mr Krum became the most sought after person for news companies, not only for their Hudson Crash articles themselves, but the follow up stories on how Twitter was used to get the story around the world before the news companies could.

On January 23rd, Twitter really did explode into the public domain in Britain. Two of its biggest celebrities, Stephen Fry and Jonathon Ross, talked about it when Fry was one of the guests on Ross’ comeback show after his 3 month break. Seen by over 5 million people, it certainly got people searching for it on Google.

Like all things that become popular online, people will try and see where money can be made off it. One of our predictions for 2009 was that Twitter would be acquired by a major internet player. Little did we know the exposure it was going to get in the weeks that followed, but with some already valuing it at $250million I think the purchase of it will come sooner rather than later, as I only see the cost of it going up with every new user. Looking at the searches for Twitter on Google today the price is increasing at a staggering rate.

Apart from individuals and celebrities using it to update friends and fans on what they are currently doing, Twitter has also begun to see an increase in companies and even the government setting up their own pages so users can easily follow what they are up to. Have you registered your company yet? Twitter does allow Trademark protection if yours is registered and will remove unauthorised squatters, but we would definitely recommend you sign up soon if you haven’t already done so.

If you’d like to see what we are up to then please visit our Twitter page.

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