At the start of 2010, UberMedia was accused by Twitter of violating some of its terms of service and a results was suspended. Twitter was basically upset that UberMedia called one of their products UberTwitter, thus they changed the name of the product to UberSocial. However, ties between the companies havent geen on good terms since. Thus, UberMedia will be creating their own microblogging service and a Twitter competitor. It will be very interesting to see if the product gains anywhere near as much traction as Twitter.

• TweetDeck Not Acquired by UberMedia: Now Bidding War Between UberMedia and Twitter – April 19, 2011
• 40% of Twitter is Pointless Babble – August 18, 2009
• Twitter Photo Sharing Service is Growing Fast: Third Party Services are Struggling – November 10, 2011
• 10 Twitter Hashtags to Live a More Frugal and Sustainable Life – October 27, 2011
• Awesome New Twitter Follow Buttons & Icons – August 22, 2011

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Sina Corp. is preparing to spin out their microblogging service Weibo. Sources have told Chinese newspaper 21st Business Herald that according to some financial service institutions, Weibo has a bigger valuation than Sina’s traditional portal business, which is estimated at $2.5 billion.

Weibo already has over 100 million users and growing fast, with only 600 employees working on the service.

Gady Epstein from the Forbes Blog mentions:

An IPO would also have very practical business implications, namely giving Weibo a huge war chest to invest in the service, delay monetization to build its customer base and distance Weibo from its competitors, including the microblogs of Tencent and Sohu.

• UberMedia To Create Their Own Microblogging and Twitter Competitor – April 28, 2011
• 40% of Twitter is Pointless Babble – August 18, 2009

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The company who conducted the study are called Pear Analytics and say that 40% of the posts on twitter are things such as ‘Only Eight Hours to go’ which would mean nothing to the average user – only a small inside circle would understand.

Another kind of tweet which make up the rest of this babble is SPAM; our beloved old nemesis.

You realise your followers has gone up by fifteen in a few days so your check them out. Then, your bubble is burst when you find that all they only followed you so you’d “check out their vids”. Hmm…perhaps not.

“We thought the news category would have more weight than dead last,” the report read, “since this seems to be contrary to Twitter’s new position of being the new source of news and events.”

Anyway, I wasn’t too surprised by this. Often, when I scan tweets on my Twitter homepage I ask myself “Now what in the world could that mean?”. But then, I’m guilty of it myself with some of my tweets reading like this; “No, I shouldn’t have done that. It was a baaaaad idea”. I suppose it’s good to have a number to put on all those useless tweets though.

4o%, remember that.

• UberMedia To Create Their Own Microblogging and Twitter Competitor – April 28, 2011
• How to Protect Your Privacy on Twitter – March 30, 2011
• Background Template for New Twitter – October 16, 2010
• How to Handle Several Twitter Accounts – September 19, 2010
• Chat with Your Followers with Twee.li – September 12, 2010

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