May 25 is a landmark day for millions and millions of people. It is the date of Oprah Winfrey’s last television show. After a quarter-century of riveting interviews and discussions that have kept daytime television watchers enthralled, the end of an era has arrived. Naturally, Twitter is abuzz with tributes to Oprah — nevermind that she’s hardly disappearing, due to the emergence of the Oprah Winfrey Network — that will help you celebrate her show and also maybe cope with the loss. Read more
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A new app from HP, Twynergy, streamlines the process of finding Twitter users to follow by examining profiles and associating them with topics.
The driving force behind WhoSay is Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency representing Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Will Smith and Steven Spielberg. CAA has a marginal investment in WhoSay, and Amazon is also listed as an investor in the startup.
Bing and DonorsChoose.org are two of Oprah Winfrey‘s Favorite Things, so fresh off their appearance on the last-ever Favorite Things episode on Oprah, Microsoft’s search engine teamed up with the online charity site and the talk show to create the Visual Search Gallery of Oprah’s Favorite Things.
Items can be sorted by price range, and procrastinators can take advantage of Last Minute Items that ship on the day they are ordered.
Apps from CNN and ABC News made the short list of favorite iPad apps from Oprah Winfrey, who discussed her use of the Apple tablet at the American Magazine Conference in Chicago Tuesday, AdAge.com reported.
Joining the two apps Winfrey uses for breaking news: Brushes and Sketchbook so she can express her creativity, and Scrabble, which she said changed her workouts, adding, “It keeps my mind off the treadmill … I can play Scrabble and listen to Bruce Springsteen all at once,” according to AdAge.com.
Every staffer at O, The Oprah Magazine received an iPad in June, and AdAge.com reports that the O App will debut Nov. 16.
Oprah Winfrey posted her first Tweet last Friday during her show. US Internet visits to twitter.com increased 24% on that day. And when compared to visits from the previous Friday, the site was up 43%. The following chart, with data from Hitwise, shows daily visits to twitter.com from January 1 – April 18.
Hitwise Clickstream data reveals that on April 17, 37% of visits to Twitter.com were new visitors (as opposed to returning). Additionally, the search term “oprah twitter” was the 35th highest search term with the word “twitter” and the 7th with “oprah” last week. Considering that Hitwise data is weekly and that the show only aired last Friday, this is pretty impressive.
Yes, it’s happened. This morning Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter (@Oprah) during her show. Her first Tweet: “ASHTON IS NEXT!” was very anti-climactic. Instead of hitting Update, Nate Berkus hit Refresh. So it went to Twitter purgatory. Her first successful Tweet:
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .
Oprah sent six successful updates during the show (9amCT) and none since. She’d already had about 75,000 followers at the beginning of the show. As of 4:30pmET (when Oprah airs in New York), she has 144,000 followers. Many social net-watchers think now that Oprah Winfrey is on Twitter, the platform has officially gone mainstream.
But, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Yesterday we listed 10 media/web billionaires and where they landed on the Forbes 2009 list of the World’s Billionaires. Of the 10 names in our post, only Oprah Winfrey saw her net worth grow last year. But we overlooked a media titan who also grew his wealth this past year, even though he only makes $1 a year for his service to the community.
See who after the jump…
Forbes has just release its 2009 list of the World’s Billionaires. This year there are fewer billionaires on the planet, and the richest people in the world have gotten poorer. The total number of billionaires fell to 793 from 1,125.
Here’s a list of 10 big names in media and the Web, all of whom have lost net worth, except one: Oprah Winfrey. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg fell off the list entirely.
The number ahead of the name is their rank among the list of 793.
Media Titans
132 Rupert Murdoch — $4.0 billion
132 Donald Newhouse — $4.0
132 Samuel Newhouse Jr — $4.0
468 Mort Zuckerman — $1.5
234 Oprah Winfrey — $2.7
Google Guys
26 Sergey Brin — $12.0
26 Larry Page — $12.0
119 Eric Schmidt — $4.4
Yahoo!
647 Jerry Yang &mdash $1.1
IAC
701 Barry Diller — $1.0
> Update: We overlooked another media titan whose net worth also grew last year. Click here to see who…
