Now you can take all you Twitter friend for a coffee or a cup or tea. All that for just over £10!
I thought I had seen it all when it comes to Twitter apps/services, but I was sadly wrong. I have just found out that you can have your twitter friends as a mosaic, on a mug, t-shirt, bag, mouse pad among other things. This service is being advertised on a site called Twitter Mosaic.
I am wondering how many Twitter APIs and related service/products there are out there? Has anyone listed them all?
Twitter has paradoxically managed to survive without a specific revenue stream yet lending its brand, fame and success to third-parties who are monetizing on it. If it is a genuine altruistic web 2.0 business model or a good old profitable one it still remains to be seen. Meanwhile we will all continue to have fun with it, use it for work and life, discovering new ways to communicate and monitize.
Not long ago I asked a PR practitioner and director of a UK PR and Marketing firm why he had left Twitter out of his presentation on new web social tools. He answered me that He could not see any use for Twitter in PR. Whether you agree with him or not it is worth cheking out this post by Drew B, A guide to Twitter: 10 ways Twitter is useful for a PR practitioner
See below my Twitter Mosaic friends -
You can have your twitter mosaic here.
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I disagree with the head of that PR firm. I think that surely mircoblogging platforms such as Twitter can be used as a very effective relationship building tool. PR in essence is all about building relationships. Twitter and other such websites gives an organisation the oppotunity to create an illusion of complete transparency which is very important in reputation management. The post by Drew B is a very good example of this and i think is very forward thinking.