And while I have been training to best my personal mark, I’m also guessing another hallowed record is about to fall — Twitter volume. In fact, I think it is safe to say that Twitter may be transformed during this sustained period of athletic activity that captivates every corner of the world. In the four years since the Beijing Games, use of social media platforms has surged and Twitter has grown from 6 six million users to about 150 million. The Olympics will transform Twitter. Time reports that the IOC, with 760,000 Twitter followers and 2.8 MORE >>

Were he speaking it today, he might refer instead to Twitter. Twitter is the enigma of social networks. The hash tag (#), which was created by the Twitter community to help bring order to the service’s inherent chaos, has become one of the Internet’s most powerful organizing and amplification tools. It’s helped Twitter become a core utility for arranging everything from book signings to mass protests.  More than five years after Twitter launched, we still hear questions all the time about its value. About 40% of messages on Twitter include a URL. MORE >>

Last year I started “collecting” great Twitter bios and kind of got hooked. When I decided to publish “The All-Time Best Twitter bios,” and “The 20 Funniest Twitter Bios,”  readers of {grow} seemed to get hooked too! These are all real Twitter bios … @MichaelACaruso. used to love my old twitter account, then everyone from work found me. BONUS CONTENT!! humor twitter best twitter bios clever twitter bios funny twitter biosSo here we are with the third edition. Life is good. janefcox. MORE >>

The other day, I was cleaning up my Twitter account and clicked on an analytics button that I had not used before. currently have about 60,000 people following me on Twitter, all of them are real people to the best of my knowledge. Nobody could possibly suck at Twitter so bad that 100,000 people followed and then dropped them moments later. Maybe … just maybe … you are sucky at Twitter. So to find out, I asked my legitimate and wonderful Twitter followers to tell me why they unfollow people. What I saw made me gasp. Do I really suck that badly?” MORE >>

Here was a particularly interesting one: What is the proper balance between personal and professional outreach on Twitter? If I am using my account to promote company and client content, is it also appropriate to carry on conversations on a personal level about sports, a great recipe or my favorite charity? At its heart, Twitter is a business networking tool … which is what many companies and individuals don’t understand. Twitter can work exactly the same way. If you are in that category, you either have to not be mean and sucky or not use Twitter. MORE >>