I went to see Sacha Baron Cohens new film Bruno yesterday. It wasn’t a match for his previous film Borat, and was far from being a classic, however I thought it was worth watching. Many people disagree though and voiced their opinions on the net, particularly on Twitter.

According to Time Magazine, the negative reviews on Twitter could have cost the producers of Bruno $20 million due. It did make just over $30 million in it’s opening weekend however early signs were indicating that it was going to make $50 million or more.

Word of mouth can be the making or breaking of a movie. In the past it took a few days or a few weeks for word of mouth to spread but Twitter seems to accelerate this process.

Just goes to show how influential Twitter has become. I’m sure that movie producers will start paying attention to Twitter more in the future and may dedicate more money to promoting their films through it.

Google posted a list of all of the Twitter accounts they yesterday. It is clear from this extensive list that they are embracing Twitter.

Here is the full list for all of you Google fanatics

General

twitter.com/Google – our central account
twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews – latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader – from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle – news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents – news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube – for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES – en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork – solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related

twitter.com/SketchUp – Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH – SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown – 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach – Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps – uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related

twitter.com/AdSense – for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper – looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah – Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics – insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder – re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail – for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK – for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE – for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE – for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT – info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia – AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords – Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI – AdWords API tips

Developer & technical

twitter.com/GoogleResearch – from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC – Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode – latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData – Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine – web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation – our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI – about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO – Google’s largest annual developer event

Culture, People

twitter.com/googletalks – notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs – the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region

twitter.com/googlearabia – news from the Google Arabia Blog*
twitter.com/googledownunder – Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE – Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm – Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt – Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

TweetDeck, arguably the most popular Twitter desktop client today, looks like it will be going from strength to strength after securing an investment of $2 million. He revealed the investment to TechCrunchs’ Mike Arrington during CrunchUp.

The question now is how do they recoup this investment. They recently released a TweetDeck iphone application which proved to be very popular, however it was released for free. Perhaps future versions of the software will have advertisements integrated. i wouldn’t be too surprised if they used the money to invest in a premium version of the script to sell to businesses and professionals.

Looks like Twitter has taken a further step into being totally integrated into todays world. A few days ago it was announced that Twitter would be entering the English Dictionary.

Considering how often Twitter is reported in newspapers and television, it really isn’t a big surprise. Though it does show the overwhelming growth of the site in the last year.

Elaine Higgleton, from Dictionary company Collins , told the Daily Mail:

Hardly a day goes by when you don’t see some Twitter-related article. Hence I find it entirely unsurprising that this year we have not one Twitter-related entry in the dictionary, but three.

Source : Twitter gains entry in dictionary

Jordan McCollum noticed today that Twitter is now displayed ads on the Twitter home page just under a users follow and follower count.

There is not any announcements yet about this but it looks like they are testing the waters with an advertisement in that area of the page. Text ads, being less intrusive than a lot of other ad formats, are a good choice for Twitter in my opinion. I don’t think many people would mind a small text ad on the side of their Twitter bar.

I don’t know if anyone is credited with creating the word “Tweet” but it seems to have been synonymous with Twitter since the start. So many Twitter scripts and Twitter related websites use the word “Tweet” in their domain name because of this, including this one.

Twitter is obviously aware of this so they have taken steps to trademark the word :

We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of “going after” the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter. In fact, we encourage the use of the word Tweet. However, if we come across a confusing or damaging project, the recourse to act responsibly to protect both users and our brand is important.

So it seems that they are happy for people to use the word “Tweet” on their websites, as long as it is used in a responsible manner and isn’t hurting the Twitter brand in any way.

Link : May The Tweets Be With You