In his latest article for Fast Company Robert Scoble makes an interesting case for the latest Web 2.0 toys and how they will influence us in the years to come. Twitter gets the lion’s share of attention – that it deserves – being the fore-runner of this new online phenomenon.

The most notable insights Robert mentions are the market research and sales opportunities that can be gleaned from services like Twitter that smart marketers, entrepreneurs and big business are letting them slip by. There is one sentence paragraph six that you must read if you’re at all “into marketing.” I won’t repeat that sentence here… just like gold, if you want it you’re going to have to dig for it. You can read the full article here: The Next Email – Twitter – Jaiku – Pownce

Actually, I think that the whole of paragraph six contains important info for both users and marketers. i.e. A privacy point of view and cautionary for users and a goldmine of market research for targeted sales prospecting for business.

Let me know what you think.

Technorati Tags: twitter, sales, marketing, web2.0, research

Well, it was bound to happen some time or another…

Twitter decided that it would not be feeding the search engines anymore. I first noticed this yesterday and thought I was seeing things… but nope, looks like it’s here to stay. All links posted inside your tweets now have the dreaded “nofollow” tag embedded into them. Bye bye spider-food!

So I guess Twitter loves you having followers and loves you following others but it doesn’t want the search engines following you. One consolation: Your web URL in your profile can still be indexed. Small consolation.

For those of us that “twitter” because we love it… no skin off our nose!

Technorati Tags: twitter, seo