Jeff Jarvis, Chris DeVore, and 5 others have Tweets for you

matjohnson, Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.         Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis Lesson from @mathewi's v good piece: Bullshit is the new classifieds on which media are now built. paidcontent.org/2013/10/04/the… 05 Oct The soul of a new machine: Gawker struggles with the slippery slope between viral and true When you come across a viral story about a heart-warming incident that you know will get millions of pageviews, how closely should you look into the claims that the viral story is based on? 5 Related tweets Chris DeVore @crashdev Love @bgurley's post on #conversion abovethecrowd.com/2013/10/02/con… same insight driving @HasOffers @MobileDevHQ @unbounce @apptentive @urbanairship 02 Oct Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited) Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled "The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All." The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. No… 11 Related tweets Startup L. Jackson @StartupLJackson "…a Web site and messaging service that allows its [2mm] users to broadcast to their friends haiku-length updates" qz.com/130189/the-com… 02 Oct The complete history of Twitter as told through tortured descriptions of it in the New York Times Twitter needs no introduction. But it wasn't always so for the "blogging-like tool for quick updates" (2006), which grew into "another leading social network" (2013). Below, I've culled some of the many thousands of… 10 Related tweets Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis Maybe young people are just more efficient about getting the news they want: poynter.org/latest-news/to… 06 Oct Pew surveys of audience habits suggest perilous future for news Create. Inform. Engage. | Journalism training, media news & how to's 3 Related tweets Aaron Levie @levie As a founder, your main job is to ask, "How can we grow faster?" And do everything possible to make it happen. 06 Oct 5 Retweets Tim Cook @tim_cook Second anniversary of Steve's death. Going on a long hike today and reflecting on his friendship and all the dents he made in the universe. 05 Oct 6 Favorites Bill Gurley @bgurley @benadida we need "losing party pays" on all litigation in US, like the UK. The problem is allowing legal arbitrage as a business. 05 Oct 2 Retweets Anthony De Rosa @AntDeRosa Twitter now tells you when someone retweets your retweet. I just want to know when I'm being subtweeted. 06 Oct 2 Retweets Don't miss out. Stay up to date on what's happening. Go to Twitter Forgot your Twitter password? Get instructions on how to reset it. You can also unsubscribe from these emails or change your notification settings. Need help? If you received this message in error and did not sign up for Twitter, click not my account. Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103