Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Explaining Twitter to Swiss TV

Posted on March 26th, 2012 • Filed under Look • No Comments

Here’s a link to an interview that Swiss TV did with me a few weeks ago about Twitter. Part of it aired on 10vor10 last night. So, if ever you wanted to hear me speak Swiss-German, here’s your chance.

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Virgin Atlantic Now Offers Flight Status Updates On Twitter

Posted on November 17th, 2011 • Filed under Look • No Comments

The airline’s new automated service lets people check departure and arrival information.

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Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls: Big on Twitter

Posted on September 8th, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

“Wow, you have some beautiful balls,” Terry Rialto (Molly Shannon) tells Pete Schweddy (Alec Baldwin) in a classic NPR spoof sketch Delicious Dish on Saturday Night Live.

Now, Mr. Schweddy’s mouth-watering balls have found their way into Ben & Jerry’s latest ice cream flavor: “Schweddy Balls.” The news has sent Twitter users into a frenzy; the ice cream was a trending topic on the service Thursday.

The new flavor name may seem a risky one for any company. But Twitter users’ response was mostly positive and light-hearted, according to sentiment data Topsy, a social search startup, shared with Mashable.

More than 44% of the first 27,508 tweets about the new flavor either expressed amusement, included exclamations of an intent to buy the flavor or offered a jovial double entendre. Forty-six percent of tweets were neutral, and just under 10% tweets were of the negative variety.

Even then, a majority of those negative tweets merely expressed disbelief at the name choice and were not overly critical in tone, according to Topsy’s data.

“We’ve always been a company that has had a sense of humor,” Ben & Jerry’s spokesperson Sen Greenwood told NPR. “This is just plain silly.” Twitterers seem to agree.

The eyebrow-raising flavor wouldn’t be complete without its own accompanying social media promotion. Facebook users, should they “Like” Ben & Jerry’s Page, can opt to send Schweddy Balls-themed greeting cards — “Favorite Holiday Treat”, “Mouth-Watering”, “Secret Recipe” and “Bigger than Expected” Delicious Dish clips included — to any of their friends and family members on the social network.

The Schweddy Balls flavor is a mix of vanilla ice cream, rum and fudge-covered rum and milk chocolate malt balls. The limited-batch, U.S.-only pints will be available at select Ben & Jerry stores. Should the initial reaction from Twitter be any indication, you might have to fight to get your hands on them.

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FInal Day in Miami: Follow Us On Twitter

Posted on December 4th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

It’s our final day in Miami for Art Basel. Problem with traveling is that we aren’t in the hotel much to update the blog. Follow us today on Twitter as we’ll try to post from the road a bunch before heading to the airport and back to New York.

We don’t have an official Wooster Twitter feed so follow Marc at @marcdschiller and Sara at @saraschiller

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