"Dan Zarrella" Archives

My 5,000th Tweet – Why it Took 2 Years to Get There

Posted on 22 July 2009 (8)

Hello, my name is Brian Wallace, and I’m a Twitterholic.  I’ve been on Twitter as @nowsourcing nearly 2 years now.

(image credit: whendidyoujointwitter.com)
So if I’ve been on Twitter so long, you might be skeptical that I only have 5,000 updates and not even 5,000 followers. Other people are flying by in follower counts.  And that’s fine.  [...]

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SEMMYs: We Have a Winner!

Posted on 04 February 2009 (0)

On Monday, we had announced that we were a finalist in the 2009 SEMMYs for viral marketing.  Dan Zarrella’s post on How Social Media Users are the Most Contagious Viral Seeds has now been declared the winner!
Here’s how the voting turned out:

Many thanks to all of you that came out and voted, and to the [...]

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Call to action: SEMMYs Finalist

Posted on 02 February 2009 (0)

We’re honored to have been selected for the 2009 SEMMY finals in Viral Marketing.  Dan Zarrella’s post on How Social Media Users are the Most Contagious Viral Seeds has been nominated and just made it into the finals. If you enjoyed the post, please go to the Viral Marketing finals and click vote now in [...]

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Proof that Savvy Social Media Users are the Most Contagious Viral Seeds

Posted on 26 August 2008 (42)

This is a guest post by Dan Zarrella, social and viral marketing scientist. He has put together a viral content sharing report and below is an expansion and exploration of some of the data uncovered by that report.
The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, [...]

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