Still Don’t Get Twitter? Maybe This Will Help | Pistachio It’s okay to admit it. You’re among friends. You’ve been on Twitter for a couple of months now and you still can’t figure out what the heck all the fuss is about. It took me a while to “get” Twitter, too, but now I find it an indispensable part of my toolkit for gathering information and promoting my work. The 140-character limit is liberating. The 140-character limit can also be frustrating. Public conversations. Immediacy. Retweeting. Discovery. Searchable. Social IQ | Be Influential. Be rewarded. Marketing Your Business With Twitter @ Small Business Tech This post is a bit of a change from my usual discussion of Apple technology, but bear with me on this one. I’ve been a member (and a largescale user as well) of the extremely popular micro-blogging site Twitter for over a year now. In that time I have enormously expanded my audience and discovered and discussed with many intelligent and fun people through the service, but Twitter is not just for discussion and merely answering “What Are You Doing?” – Twitter has many more possibilities and capabilities that everyone can utilize to market their brand and their business. First, Twitter is community based, and this means if the community likes what they see they can share (“Re-tweet”) your content with their friends. Through Re-tweeting your posts, news and content shared through Twitter can be spread through not just your friends and followers, but your follower’s followers, etc.
PeerIndex — We Value Social 25 Apps that Add Form and Function to Twitter - The 2.0 Life Fresh Inspiration From 10 New Twitter-centric Websites Out This Week | Inspired Magazine Twitter is so big that every day a new set of apps is popping up on the interwebs. We try to keep up and make a selection of the best Twitter apps out this week. Enjoy! Bubble Tweet Add a Video To Your Twitter Page In Seconds with BubbleTweet. Scoopler Real time search engine. TwtJobs Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama. adf.ly Monetizing short URLs by showing ads before the original content. daily RT The real Digg for Twitter, strong competition for TweetMeme . Twittl The other new DIGG for Twiter. Twitter Job Search The first social media job search engine. Tweerrific Daily Twitter apps, codes, and widgets. What is WPSumo? WPSumo is a ridiculously feature rich WordPress framework. We use it on InspiredM because it makes blogging easier, by giving us an unparalleled degree of flexibility and focus. It doesn't matter if you're just starting with WordPress or you're an experienced user.
TwitPwr At 10:15 pm I discovered that I had not brought a Macbook power supply on the trip. I was in a hotel on Coronado Island, and early the next morning I was flying to an aircraft carrier off San Diego for an overnight visit. I doubted that the carrier had Macbook power supplies laying around, so I was in trouble. I posted a message to Twitter that I was in this predicament, and within ten minutes, five people offered to bring me a power supply. This illustrates the practical implications of a large following on Twitter. Tip 1: Follow the “smores (social media whores*).” Tip 2: Send @ messages to the smores. Tip 3: Create an effective avatar. If you have access to cool image tools, then create an avatar that raises the question, “How did he do that?” Tip 4: Follow everyone who follows you. Having said this, when you get to more than fifty or so followers, it’s impossible to read what all your followers tweet. Tip 5: Always be linking. StumbleUpon. Tip 8: Use the right tools. Tweetdeck.
Ten Twitter Mythconceptions | Technologizer Poor Twitter! It may be the hottest service on the Web, but it’s also profoundly misunderstood. Lots of people cheerfully admit they don’t get it. Others emphatically believe things about it that aren’t true. I encounter confusion over Twitter every day, especially in the real world as I chat with folks who have either never used it, or have tried it and then walked away. It also pops up on Twitter itself (where, incidentally, I’m @harrymccracken and a feed of all Technologizer stories is available at @technologizer). I don’t claim to understand everything there is to understand about Twitter. Mythconception #1: Twitter is something utterly new. Reality: I’m not sure if I’ve convinced a single soul of this, but I stubbornly maintain that Twitter is a whole lot like the CompuServe forums that were once the dominant hub for online discussion–it’s just tweets are faster, shorter, and more flexible. Mythconception #3: People who tweet what they had for breakfast are wasting your time.
Why Following Too Many People Will Cost You $ by Glenn Murray of copywriting studio, Divine Write. Follow him @divinewrite. I must have Twitter all wrong. But I seem to be in the minority here. This raises three very interesting questions: 1) Why do they follow so many people in the first place? 2) Why don’t they unfollow those whose tweets they’re not interested in? 3) What does it matter? Why follow thousands of people to begin with? As far as I can tell, there are just six possible reasons: 1) They follow people who look interesting, fully intending to read their tweets; 2) They return all (or most) of the follows they get, simply out of courtesy or because they think that’s just what you do; 3) They return follows because they don’t want to be unfollowed for not reciprocating; 4) They follow people simply to encourage return follows, thereby building their own follow count; 5) They follow people simply to encourage return follows, thereby broadening their scope for DM spam; or Why not unfollow those whose tweets you’re not interested in?
8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information. Enter Twitter Analytics, Twitter Analysis, or simply just Analytwits (in the tradition of Twitter slang). These analytics tools are growing in numbers; even Twitter is developing them. Besides Twitter Search, the following 8 Analytwits are some of the more useful web applications to analyze Twitter streams. 8 Great Tools for Social (Twit)telligence TWITALYZER provides activities analysis of any Twitter user, based on social media success yardsticks. MICROPLAZA offers an interesting way to make sense of your Twitter streams.
Twitter Essentials - The 70 Things to Know In our continuing pursuit to mine Twitter for all of its pulp, we've identified 70 terms, web and desktop applications, we find particularly useful or interesting at Agent Wildfire. Thanks to full team at Agent Wildfire, our Twitter maven Karin Abramova in particular and various people online who provided their Twisdom. The Basics - Replies & DMs - Follows - Retweets - DMs - Tweetups - Hashtags - FollowFridays Shortening Urls - tinyurl - ow.ly - tr.im - is.gd Searching Posts - search.twitter.com - Tweetscan - Tweefind Finding Influencers - WhoShouldIFollow - Twannabe - Twitterholic - Mr. Breaking News - Twitscoop - Retweetist - Twitturly - Summize Mapping Trends - Twist Dashboard/Client - Tweetdeck - Spaz - Tweetie - Seesmic Local - twitterlocal - twitterwhere - Twinkle Fielding Polls - twitdaddy - twtpoll Tracking Tweets - tr.im - Hootsuite - Monitter - Tweetstats Multiple Accounts - Twhirl - Mattinator - TwitterFox - Hootsuite Groups - Tweetworks - Twibes Linking Media - twitpic - Twiddeo Using Mobile Twitter - Twitterberry - Ubertwitter Fun
30-Minute Brand Building for Twitter We all know that in order to use Twitter as an effective branding tool for yourself or your company, you must“engage the community” and “join the conversation.” But when you’re learning how to use a new technology platform, it’s probably not clear how exactly to go about “engaging” people. Here’s a 5-step guide that walks you through exactly what you need to do – spending 30 minutes or less per day branding yourself on Twitter. Tweet useful information (time spent per day: 5 minutes) By far, the best way to engage your Twitter audience is by sharing fun, useful, or witty advice that will help them solve their problems. It’s fast to come up with these – use quotes, facts from your industry, etc. To keep the process simple, batch your tips and advice. Answer questions (time spent per day: 5 minutes) I use Twitter’s search engine to find questions in my area of expertise. You can subscribe to any search terms you want via RSS by using “Feed for this Query” on the right sidebar. Author: