Category: Twitter
How Twitter Effects Change
Following up from our earlier post today on Kyle Sandilands Trending on Twitter … Kyle Sandilands has put his foot in it again and the backlash has been swift. His comments about news.com.au journalist Ali Stephenson, who wrote an article reporting criticism of his TV show have made a big impact on the Australian public, and […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Activity Feed
Twitter has created a new section on their website, showing the activity and actions that the people whom you follow are taking. This is done via a Tab inside Twitter, next to other tabs like timeline, @ mentions, searches, lists – and the tab is simply called Activity. It looks to have replaced the ReTweets […]
Read More | ShareHow to write a quality Twitter Bio
There is no doubt Twitter is a powerful business social network, and with it’s close integration with LinkedIn I really find Twitter a useful marketing tool and information source. Fact is this site gets a fair proportion of monthly traffic from my Twitter profile. So what is the best way we can optimise our Twitter […]
Read More | ShareHow to Encourage ReTweets
So you are an active Twitter user – you may have a blog or website and post your content to Twitter, or you may use Twitter in your job to connect with other industry professionals. Search Engines now are placing importance on the number of ReTweets your Twitter status updates get. So if people are […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Breaks the News
In 2009 US Airways flight 1549 crashed in New York’s Hudson river. It took only four minutes before a tweet made by Jim Hanrahan (@Manolantern) alerted the public to what had happened. The media were considerably slower to respond, with 15 minutes elapsing before news outlets began reporting the story. This is not an isolated […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Stories Launched
Post sponsor: BuyRealMarketing – views on youtube Twitter has launched a new product called Twitter Stories. Basically the product is showing the ‘Best of Twitter’ – a maximum of 20 heartwarming stories about great things that have come from Twitter. You can check out the site at: http://stories.twitter.com/ So far there are stories about: – […]
Read More | ShareTwitter reacts to #Curtseygate
When Julia Gillard met the Queen in Canberra, it seems all didn’t go to plan in terms of greeting our Royal Queen. Normally ladies are meant to curtsey the Queen, however Julia Gillard decided a handshake and bow is more her preference. Twitter erupted! (but thankfully all seems to be settling down now) More tweets […]
Read More | ShareTwitter’s Dick Costello insights at Web 2.0 Summit
Tim O’Reilly and Twitter CEO Dick Costello have had a good chat at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday. I watch their Q&A and I wanted to summarise some new stats about Twitter you may find interesting. New Twitter stats: – 250 million Tweets posted every day, every 4 days around 1 billion Tweets. – Each […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Button Count Bug
Currently there seems to be an issue with the official Twitter button where the tweet count is incorrect. I have the official Twitter Tweet button installed above ^ It seems not every Tweet and Retweet of your content is being counted, only some are – if any. This is kind of annoying as it’s not […]
Read More | ShareOldschool: Reid Hoffman and Biz Stone
I was scrolling through the LinkedIn help pages today and I came across an interesting video of 2 great entrepreneurs. Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn Founder Biz Stone – Twitter Founder If you are not already aware, the LinkedIn Today product, which has been very successful – draws the most shared news across the internet, specifically […]
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