Comments on: Malaysian Oldest Newspaper Brandjacked on Twitter

By: NaS

NaS — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:26:59 +0000

BTW, nst also does not own “newstraitstimes.com”. Malaysian companies need to consider .com (and .my) too instead of just settling with .com.my <- huge traffic lose since hundreds of millions internet user still type .com on the browser destination URL instead of using search engines.

By: NaS

NaS — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:25:02 +0000

Carolyn, some people just won’t pay. That’s not lost revenues, coz you can still get their lips service – word of mouth marketing. These consumers can still buy physical papers… ie. biggest newspaper sales is still not 10% of Malaysia population (unlike in some other countries with over 10-million sales per paper etc.)

Good to see NST finally reverts to “newstraitstimes” brand for its website, coz previously used “nstonline” is not NST’s for .com <- still KING of top-level domains.

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By: meta4

meta4 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:58:47 +0000

And yes I agree a lot of companies have little idea what social media is and what they don’t know, they fear. And fear leads to hate.

My company blocks access to facebook and the other popular social network sites. Anyone else out there whose company is blocking access to social media sites?

By: meta4

meta4 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:03:32 +0000

NST could be planning what Star is doing now. Charge for news sent to your mobile phone. When you can charge, why twitter, right?

IMHO, I am paying for the paper already, want me to pay some more for mobile news – forget it.

Tweets are like teasers to get you to want to click on a tinyurl to read more. Hit me with your banner ads when I’m at your site, don’t charge me for tweets or SMS news. If no one is clicking the tinyurls, blame the teaser writer. Charging for sms news is lame.

By: Yung-Hui Lim

Yung-Hui Lim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:36:39 +0000

I agreed. NST should take ‘control’ their brand on Twitter. Quite unbelievable for a major brand like NST to put it in the hand of a ‘fan’.

Also, Twitter is not charging companies, yet.

By: davidlian

davidlian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:05:38 +0000

Good post.

I think that NST should find a way to actually start a twitter feed for themselves. It only makes sense.

Question: do you know if Twitter charges companies to get their official Twitter feeds?