The Future of TweetDeck
I wrote a post about the potential of Twitter to buy TweetDeck just two weeks ago. (To be fair, that first posted on my employer’s blog.)
In any case, a “what if” scenario has become a reality with an offer ranging between $40 and $50 million.
So what happens now?
A lot of doom and gloom if you believe the people over at TechCrunch (they also broke the story that a deal was done between TweetDeck and Twitter on Monday).
I don’t buy the doom and gloom declaring the end of TweetDeck. Continue reading »
Filed under Guest Posts, Matt LaCasse, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: acquisitions, TweetDeck, Twitter | Comments (21)What If Twitter Did Buy TweetDeck?
Rumors ran rampant
around the Twitterverse last week with the news that Twitter is in talks with TweetDeck to purchase the ridiculously popular third-party service for the low, low price of just $50 million.
(Note to self: invent something people love and then buy an island).
Considering UberMedia was rumored to be in the mix to buy TweetDeck for $30 million just a few weeks ago, that’s very interesting news.
My first reaction to this news was joy. Pure and overwhelming joy.
Why?
Well, I’m not really a fan of UberMedia. I like their apps, but I’m not a huge fan of the company in general.
Filed under Business, Guest Posts, Matt LaCasse, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: third party apps, TweetDeck, Twitter | Comments (14)That Time Our Website Was Hacked
The afternoon of March 28 was not a super-happy-fun time for my department.
Instead of seeing the University homepage, visitors were greeted with a black screen that had the messages: “Hacked by SecurityBus,” and “Sorry Admin you’ve just been hacked.”
My first reaction was to check if the institution’s blog—the piece I manage—was still up.
It was.
The blog is set up on a server separate from the institution’s homepage, a precautionary measure that was implemented so that if the blog was ever hacked, the University website would be protected.
(Ironic, I know. Anyway…)
So, as far as Web presence went, we still had the blog and the official Facebook and Twitter accounts. Those last two are managed by Student Recruitment.
Throughout the incident no one had posted any comments or questions on the University’s Facebook account, and only one comment about the hacking appeared on the blog (which I’ll get to later).
Filed under Blogging, Communication, Guest Posts, Public Relations, Shanan Sorochynski, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: crisis communications, emergency, Social Media, TweetDeck, Twitter, university | Comments (8)
