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Managing Twitter After five years experimenting with Twitter, dozens of public speaking engagements on the topic, and thousands of followers, I have personally tried endless products that aim to help manage my Twitter followers which is necessary given the shady tactics of spam, bots and jerks. What I have stuck with since its launch is ManageFlitter, not because it has ...
Why you might care who your MVF is Sometimes determining your Twitter influence isn’t solely about the number of followers you have. To be a tad brutally honest, not all Twitter followers are created equal. There are countless spammers and those who haven’t actively used the site for quite a while. And we all know how fickle some Twitter users ...
Take note of PeepNote There are many tools for email that allow you to organize contacts, label them, take notes, and keep lists, but Twitter has not offered much in the way of organizing contacts within their own system. Because of this, PeepNote which came to be at a programming competition in 2009. PeepNote was designed to help Twitter users ...
Twitvid’s new direction Twitvid.com expands their existing model from capturing raw video and posting on Twitter to allow users to share any kind of video from anywhere, says CEO Mo Al Adham in the video interview above. Twitvid was formerly the largest repository of videos on Twitter other than YouTube and is well known as the TwitPic of video. The ...
Twitter gets a makeover As seen in the video above, Twitter has undergone a makeover and followed the trend of sites and services using minimalistic design to better accommodate all devices as mobile use skyrockets. The changes to Twitter are not to privacy settings or advertising methods, rather an update to the user interface. Of the transition, Statesman.com journalist, Omar ...
Promoted tweets Twitter has a requirement that any advertiser wishing to target Twitter users through their Promoted Products program which costs a minimum of $15,000. Businesses of all sizes are frequently seen through promoted tweets that surface to the top of the Twitter stream, with advertisers buying keywords either locally, nationally or internationally. This is a way for advertisers to ...
2011 in review Each year, Twitter closes out the calendar year with reflections on the top stories, trends and celebrities who have joined Twitter and this year is no different. What we are pleased with this year is that at least some of the trending topics are more than Bieber or GaGa, rather global politics and civil unrest topped the ...
Facebook has mastered social media? JD Rucker at FastCompany, Inc. recently wrote, “The three major social media disciplines (networking, news, and microblogging) are set. There need be no new entrants into those arenas. In the niche social media world, there is still hope for innovation and creativity. Those wanting to stake their claim need to look here. Rather than building ...
Major challenge for digital media A major challenge for any professional using social networking sites and blogs is that consumers have multiple locations where that they can connect with you, but aside from services like Flavors.me, there is an absence of services that aggregate full content from all social networks and present them chronologically. Introducing Timewiki which presents Twitter, Facebook ...
Redefining Twitter use Twylah.com has launched in beta to help serve brands and celebrities on Twitter in a more customized environment than Twitter can offer. Brands are limited to the chronological timeline on Twitter, and although they are able to change the background image of their page, there is insufficient organization to the status updates. Twylah has set out to ...
Twitter’s growth is skyrocketing At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo reported that Twitter had 90 million tweets per day in September 2010, jumped to 100 million per day in the first quarter, and today, the social network has nearly 250 million tweets per day, a massive increase in a very short period of time. ...
Keeping a clean website Often when designing a website, a business owner says “I want these 800 badges and widgets” and the designer says “I want 0 badges and widgets to keep the UI clean and the site fast.” The battle rages on between function and form, but there are tools out there to help bridge these two entities’ desires. ...