Comments on: Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? It’s the rebirth of a startup

By: Bahrain video

Bahrain video — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:59:58 +0000

anyone that will offer a lifestyle brand such as Apple’s macbook, will be the center attention of the universe …

just my opinion

lets say i will give away 5 ipod touches for creative responses, doesnt have to be a text based but it can also be video responses .

do the math!

By: Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit

Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:37:30 +0000

[...] Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? It’s the rebirth of a startup – TechCrunch Europe [...]

By: Just Social – Page.ly changes website creation

Just Social – Page.ly changes website creation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:13:20 +0000

[...] aside MoonFruit, Page.ly is coming in. Instead of the traditional model of leaving users to find their own way in [...]

By: Page.ly Changing Website Creation

Page.ly Changing Website Creation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:12:07 +0000

[...] aside MoonFruit, Page.ly is coming in. Instead of the traditional model of leaving users to find their own way in [...]

By: More Moo(n) for your money! Moo and Moonfruit partner-up on offers

More Moo(n) for your money! Moo and Moonfruit partner-up on offers — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:19 +0000

[...] ran a controversial Twitter campaign recently but it appears to have paid off. Subscriptions are 20% up post the campaign and US traffic [...]

By: To Trend or Not to Trend? :: Logical Juice

To Trend or Not to Trend? :: Logical Juice — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:53:25 +0000

[...] marketing. Don’t gasp. A solid proof point is not only the success that a company such as Moonfruit had in generating impact and awareness, but also the near allergic reaction some web and social [...]

By: Breakdown: 4 Ways Brands Are Earning –and Buying– Followers on Twitter | CopyWriting-AutoResponder EXPERT

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:30:58 +0000

[...] Results: Big wins. Moonfruit is a trending topic 3 days after the contest landed, there are thousands of retweets and tweets about the brand, as well as an increase in followers of about 10,000 a day (graph).Update: It’s now July 6th and the Moonfruit account has stalled out at 43k followers –it didn’t grow 10k as the first 3 days did. It’s also no longer a trending topic. Techcrunch Europe comments. [...]

By: Don't Wait To Get Into Social Video Marketing | Video Army

Don't Wait To Get Into Social Video Marketing | Video Army — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:15:53 +0000

[...] 10 year old company that survived the first dot-com bubble, held a contest on which they spent only the cost of 10 Macbook Pro computers and managed to dominate Twitter for a week. We also know about the power of video; whether [...]

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By: Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White shares all... including her Twitter success | Women Unlimited

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:51:58 +0000

[...] In Wendy’s words, she founded Moonfruit as a single over ambitious 28 year old during the dotcom boom, and is now managing to grow a multimillion pound company and has massively accelerated the business while also raising a young family. You can read more about Wendy and her success in the FT and on TechCrunch.com [...]

By: Kunal Kripalani

Kunal Kripalani — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:16:30 +0000

Moonfruit were able to increase website traffic 600% and sign-ups for their product trial by 100% so the campaign obviously worked for them.

Twitter has shown a clear distaste for commercially biased hashtag trends and I think many (but not the majority) of Tweeps are starting to associate hashtags with spam. The ability to block hashtags is a great solution, and no doubt we will see an application for it in the near future. Twitter might even include spam filters that automatically block Tweets containing hashtags that, for example, have been reported to @spam 100 times. The original offending Tweep can then also be traced and suspended.

Perhaps another option is to use an Adwords type quality score to weight the relevance of a Tweet to its hashtag which could help control what appears in the top trends list?

Perhaps charging for such campaigns is one way Twitter could monetize and also limit abuse of hashtags.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:41:38 +0000

Fascinating. Looks like it was well worth it for moonfruit

By: MyDragnDrop get a mention in Techcrunch « SQLFusion Blog

MyDragnDrop get a mention in Techcrunch « SQLFusion Blog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:57:09 +0000

[...] strong traction with some major partnership I can’t mention yet. They just got a mention in Techcrunch Europe along with the other big player in the do it yourself web [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » What The Hashtag: Your Guide To Enigmatic Twitter Hashtags

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:57:42 +0000

[...] about and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. This weekend’s “Moonfruit” and “GorillaPenis” trending topics on Twitter were examples of trending topics that aren’t [...]

By: New Guide to Twitter Hashtags…07.07.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:28:26 +0000

[...] and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. This weekend’s ‘Moonfruit‘ and ‘GorillaPenis‘ trending topics on Twitter were examples of trending topics [...]

By: How are Twitter coping with trend spam? | Tamar

How are Twitter coping with trend spam? | Tamar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:19:04 +0000

[...] to use the tag #Moonfruit in their posts to be entered in to the prize draw, and this had the desired effect very quickly, with the tag appearing at the top of the trending list throughout last week. But as [...]

By: What The HashtagがTwitterのハッシュタグとトレンドトピックの謎解きを提供

What The HashtagがTwitterのハッシュタグとトレンドトピックの謎解きを提供 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:02:49 +0000

[...] Twitterのトレンドトピック（Trending Topics, “流行トピック”, Twitterで盛り上がり上位のいくつかの話題）の信頼性やハッシュタグ(hashtag)の意味をめぐって、議論が騒々しくなっている。ハッシュタグは、#BigBanのように、言葉の前に”#”を付けたもので、それが何のおしゃべりであるかを表し、特定の話題や出来事（イベント）に関して検索したいときに役に立つ。この前の週末（7/3-4）の“Moonfruit”や“GorillaPenis”などは、分かりにくくてそのときの実際の出来事と関係のないトレンドトピックの例だ。私個人は、トレンドトピックやハッシュタグに混乱することがときどきある。Twitterの上では、それらをめぐって文脈がほとんどないことも多いからだ。しかもトレンドトピックが本物のニュースと関係なくて、スパムに汚染されていることもよくある。そしてWhat The Hashtagは、まさにこの問題を解決するために登場したサイトだ。 [...]

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What The Hashtag: Your Guide To Enigmatic Twitter Hashtags | — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:30:58 +0000

[...] and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. This weekend’s “Moonfruit” and “GorillaPenis” trending topics on Twitter were examples of trending topics that [...]

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:07:12 +0000

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