Delaware Valley Real Estate - OnPoint with Letitia Stevenson

The New Twitter.com

In an effort to provide a faster, richer user experience, Twitter introduced its new redesign of Twitter.com on September 14, 2010 to allow users to get more information related to the author or subject of a tweet without leaving the site.

For now, Twitter is rolling out the new design to a select group of users over the next several weeks as a preview to allow these users to become familiar with the new twitter.com. For the rest of use, we will have to wait. According to Twitter's YouTube Video, "The new Twitter.com is coming soon to all users!"

For additional information, please check out the following resources:

• The Twitter Blog
• The New Twitter.com
• New Twitter: An Illustrated Guide by Danny Sullivan
• Here Comes the New Twitter.com
• First Look: A Screenshot Tour of the New Twitter

What do you think of the new Twitter? Will this get more people to use Twitter? Is this an opportunity for Twitter to monetized its site?

Ghost Tweeting: Appropriate or not? What are your thoughts?

I just read an article by Mike McDonald at Web Pro News where he talks about an interesting and debatable subject: Ghost Tweeting.

Ghostwriting has been a staple of business and academia for ages. In fact, it is a standard practice across industries, in both professional and personal writing, in the form of bylines, press releases, articles, books, etc.  So why is ghost tweeting - tweeting on another person's behalf - any different? 

Is there something about Twitter - the micro-platform that packs a big communications punch - that makes it seem less appropriate for ghosting? What are your thoughts?