Huge changes for IKEA customers

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I am an IKEA customer. Putting their furniture together is not only cheaper, but also a big fun. It’s like having a larger Lego set to assemble. The furniture is always in pieces, packed together in a relatively small box, which means they are relatively easy to move. Hence, if you are changing your flat, you can disassemble your furniture, decrease their size and move to your new home. We (the IKEA customers) like seeing creative and nicely done expositions with ideas for arranging our flats and houses. We know that even with fully decorated flat we will always find something worth buying in the shop. Can this change in the future?

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We were faster than Twitter in analysing tweets from Apple’s iPad event

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On March 7th, Apple held a keynote event unveiling its new iPad. Twittie was collecting and analysing tweets posted during this event. Having crunched almost 500,000 tweets and 6 hours after the event finished, we published the infographic. We also tweeted about it, of course. A couple of days later we were surprised to find that 20 hours afterwards, 26 hours after Apple’s event ended, Twitter itself tweeted a very similar graph. Check out the corresponding tweets:

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You never know what will be a success, or Philippines

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We recently uploaded our first game to the Apple App Store. It’s called “Who Am I ???” and makes it easy to play the popular game of writing down famous people names on post-its and sticking them to others foreheads. The current player has to then ask yes-no questions to others, trying to figure out who he is. “Who Am I ???” makes it simple and fun to play, no pen and post-it necessary, just your iPhone or iPod touch.

Being it our first game, first mobile app, and first experience with the Apple App Store, we learned a lot, sometimes the hard way.

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Twitter Christmas

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Yesterday I saw the first snow this year, covering the gloominess of winter in the city. At once, everything seemed brighter, cleaner and nicer. The thought that crossed my mind was: “This finally looks like Christmas!”. Funny, but till that moment I didn’t even realize how close we were to Holidays. Today, I decided to check how Twitter Christmas looks like. I opened Twittie and entered a few tags and phrases into the monitoring tab. After a short moment I was up to date with the hottest Christmas campaigns, quotes and offers.

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Twittie – smart Twitter analytics for every location

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http://twittie.comI have been using social media for a while now. I like Google+, Facebook, Picplz, but my number one is still Twitter. Why? Because it gives me brief and real time information about current events. Moreover, you can feel like a participant of any conference by listening and engaging under conference #tag. There is also a huge business side to Twitter. It gives companies the possibility to research among huge focus groups, improve customer relationship, spread the word about new products, deals, promotions, get new ideas and inspirations for the business. It even helps in finding employees.

The power of Twitter is truly huge and many great services are built based on it. There are Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Hootsuite, which help you schedule your tweets, read your tweet lists and manage your profile. There are services like Storify, which puts tweets together creating stories on a given subject, or analytic services, displaying data gathered from Twitter in forms of graphs and numbers. However I still couldn’t find a service that will help me see how should I tweet in order to be more successful. Moreover, to be successful only within my country. This is exactly what Twittie does.

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Twitter – a dangerous nerd toy or a powerful communicator and information source

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Times are changing, TV and radio are no longer the only and true source of information. The internet, and especially the social networks like Twitter, are becoming faster in delivering information and as influential as popular TV channels, or even more. Twitter was the first to publish information about the raid on Bin Laden. One of the users (Sohaib Athar, a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual) started tweeting, unaware what he was really describing.

His tweets gave a detailed story of the attack and death of the Al-Qaeda leader. Twitter also is a crucial part of the more recent events, like the unexpected storm in Pukkelpop (Belgium), English Riots or The Wall Street Protests. In most of these cases it was used by its users to help and update each other on the current situation. However, it happened that some users tried to make even bigger chaos and panic than the one already present.

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What has Facebook been up to

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On Thursday the fourth Facebook F8 conference took place. It started with a funny performance by Andy Samberg posing as Mark Zuckerberg. Andy described his vision of an awesome “slow-poke”. Don’t you hate it when you poke someone you shouldn’t have, just because you drank a too much? Slow-poke is the answer. The poke that takes 24h to become a real thing, so you still can get sober and retract your misdoing the next day. Do you like it? Don’t get your hopes up though, cause it was just a joke. ;)

Mark Zuckerberg had quite a different vision. He announced two major things: the Timeline, and the new generation of apps based on the Open Graph.

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Why your business needs data analysis

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Data analysis is a part of the Business Intelligence. It can be used for many purposes: confirmation of a hypothesis, forecasting, or discovering new features in data. We are all surrounded by information and being able to see the bigger picture can help us make an informed decision. In the past, many business decisions used to be made based on a hunch, because no one actually could get data from thousands of people at once. Now, with the internet, you don’t even have to make surveys to get your market research. The information is out there and all you need to do is make an analysis and draw the conclusions.

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How Twitter users from UK connect their #tags – infographic

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Twittie – New Twitter business analytics with focus on geolocation

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Twittie is a new analytical tool for everone who professionally uses Twitter. It is designed to help in increasing engagement and sales. Twittie is a service that focuses on the country of its users, and gives them all the statistics and tips on how to engage and monitor leads within a specific location. Currently, it focuses on the British and Polish market, with others coming soon. We invite users from other locations to test us as well.

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