Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Is Twitter Dead?
You tell me?
I don't use it nearly as much as I used to and yet in some countries it is more used and popular than Vacebook. Wonder why that is, maybe the 140 character limit, maybe since Facebook is getting to be a teenage wasteland...I dunno...you tell me your thoughts on this one.
Is Twitter Dead?
I don't use it nearly as much as I used to and yet in some countries it is more used and popular than Vacebook. Wonder why that is, maybe the 140 character limit, maybe since Facebook is getting to be a teenage wasteland...I dunno...you tell me your thoughts on this one.
Is Twitter Dead?
Monday, March 28, 2011
Where to find Homefront video game
This was a great video on how to play the Homefront video game
in reference to:"Where to find Homefront video game"
- Where to find Homefront video game - (view on Google Sidewiki)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Most people don't fully understand the power of social media. Do you?
Are you actually using twitter for personal reasons or for branding your business and your online presence?
Are you using other social media outlets properly?
Are you aware of Digg's new platform?
The ever changing face of Facebook?
Do you stumble....or have no idea what that is?
Do you use online tools that are cutting edge or week?" (Last week)
What do you guys concentrate on to get noticed?
Let me know!
Are you using other social media outlets properly?
Are you aware of Digg's new platform?
The ever changing face of Facebook?
Do you stumble....or have no idea what that is?
Do you use online tools that are cutting edge or week?" (Last week)
What do you guys concentrate on to get noticed?
Let me know!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
I love this article on twitter - How Twitter Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks
Every now and then an article catches my eye. This is a really good article worth sharing.
Enjoy!
How Twitter Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks
Did you know you can increase your affiliate income by using the Web 2.0 tool named Twitter in your marketing and affiliate efforts?
I will come to the "how to make money" part shortly, but first I will tell you a little bit about the phenomenon Twitter, in case you haven't heard about it before or are unsure of exactly what's going on.
Imagine the coffee machine or lunch restaurant at your workplace. The place most people meet up and share both gossip and work discussions. Then you have an understanding of what twitter is about. It's a gathering point for a lot of people online. It's a dialog between people and as you will discover shortly it opens fantastic opportunities both socially and for business. And you don't need a website, blog or marketing funds. It's all free.
So how do you make money from Twitter? As you soon will see links are a big and natural part of the conversations going on in Twitter. People are also much more inclined to click your links in Twitter than for example in email marketing, links on websites or blogs. And it will also take you very little time to write your Twitter messages. I spend about a minute to write a twitter message.
So, I just told you why you can make money. Now let's look at the how...
Step 1, sign up to twitter. Go to twitter.com and create a new account. This will take you a couple of seconds.
Step 2, sign up to a bunch of twitters. You find Twitters in twitter. The process is very simple and you will understand it as soon as you have tried. The easiest way to find interesting Twitters are through people that are already authorities in your marketplace and other interest areas. Authors, bloggers and so on.
Twitters you may find interesting to follow: @gillberg, @colligan, @SoftwareGuide (this is an example of a business twitter with messages related to software).
My initial tests suggest you can get a ratio about one to 5, e.g. for every 5 people you follow one will follow you. And if you follow me, I will follow you ;-)
Step 3, after signing up and subscribing to a few Twitters it's time to set up your account. For people to sign up to follow you it's important that you have a short bio and if you have a website or blog, include a link too.
This should help you get a higher ratio of followers and the followers will also be more targeted. Say you are interested in affiliate marketing. If likeminded people see you in Twitter and check out your bio they are more likely to subscribe to your Twitter messages.
When setting up the account I recommend you use a picture of yourself. This will make you more trustworthy and human.
Step 4, listen to the communication. Twittering is pretty straight forward process, but it's good to get a feel for the general communication.
And finally, step 5 -- time to start twittering.
Some Twitter tips.
* Be personal. Tell people a little bit about yourself, this will make you more human and trustworthy.
* Use mystique to get the click. For example; Check this out: [link], Wow, this is cool: [link] and so on. I think you get the picture.
* When it's appropriate, interact with other Twitters using the reply button.
* Share valuable information, if you spam you will end up without anyone reading your posts pretty soon.
* Don't talk about yourself too much.
* Use tracking for your links. Use klikdeal (klikdeal.com) for example to set up your twitter links. This will pretty soon give you an overview of what is being clicked and what's not. Avoid tinyurl as this doesn't give you tracking capabilities.
Looking forward to see your Twitters and click your affiliate links. A big thanks goes out to Paul Colligan for introducing me to twitter.
About the guy who wrote it - Peter Gillberg is a Software Marketing veteran running the blog http://www.softwaremarketingsecrets.com/ you can hear his twitter at http://twitter.com/gillberg
Enjoy!
How Twitter Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks
Did you know you can increase your affiliate income by using the Web 2.0 tool named Twitter in your marketing and affiliate efforts?
I will come to the "how to make money" part shortly, but first I will tell you a little bit about the phenomenon Twitter, in case you haven't heard about it before or are unsure of exactly what's going on.
Imagine the coffee machine or lunch restaurant at your workplace. The place most people meet up and share both gossip and work discussions. Then you have an understanding of what twitter is about. It's a gathering point for a lot of people online. It's a dialog between people and as you will discover shortly it opens fantastic opportunities both socially and for business. And you don't need a website, blog or marketing funds. It's all free.
So how do you make money from Twitter? As you soon will see links are a big and natural part of the conversations going on in Twitter. People are also much more inclined to click your links in Twitter than for example in email marketing, links on websites or blogs. And it will also take you very little time to write your Twitter messages. I spend about a minute to write a twitter message.
So, I just told you why you can make money. Now let's look at the how...
Step 1, sign up to twitter. Go to twitter.com and create a new account. This will take you a couple of seconds.
Step 2, sign up to a bunch of twitters. You find Twitters in twitter. The process is very simple and you will understand it as soon as you have tried. The easiest way to find interesting Twitters are through people that are already authorities in your marketplace and other interest areas. Authors, bloggers and so on.
Twitters you may find interesting to follow: @gillberg, @colligan, @SoftwareGuide (this is an example of a business twitter with messages related to software).
My initial tests suggest you can get a ratio about one to 5, e.g. for every 5 people you follow one will follow you. And if you follow me, I will follow you ;-)
Step 3, after signing up and subscribing to a few Twitters it's time to set up your account. For people to sign up to follow you it's important that you have a short bio and if you have a website or blog, include a link too.
This should help you get a higher ratio of followers and the followers will also be more targeted. Say you are interested in affiliate marketing. If likeminded people see you in Twitter and check out your bio they are more likely to subscribe to your Twitter messages.
When setting up the account I recommend you use a picture of yourself. This will make you more trustworthy and human.
Step 4, listen to the communication. Twittering is pretty straight forward process, but it's good to get a feel for the general communication.
And finally, step 5 -- time to start twittering.
Some Twitter tips.
* Be personal. Tell people a little bit about yourself, this will make you more human and trustworthy.
* Use mystique to get the click. For example; Check this out: [link], Wow, this is cool: [link] and so on. I think you get the picture.
* When it's appropriate, interact with other Twitters using the reply button.
* Share valuable information, if you spam you will end up without anyone reading your posts pretty soon.
* Don't talk about yourself too much.
* Use tracking for your links. Use klikdeal (klikdeal.com) for example to set up your twitter links. This will pretty soon give you an overview of what is being clicked and what's not. Avoid tinyurl as this doesn't give you tracking capabilities.
Looking forward to see your Twitters and click your affiliate links. A big thanks goes out to Paul Colligan for introducing me to twitter.
About the guy who wrote it - Peter Gillberg is a Software Marketing veteran running the blog http://www.softwaremarketingsecrets.com/ you can hear his twitter at http://twitter.com/gillberg
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
How to Use Twitter for Internet Marketing
Twitter is all over the place and if you have ever wondered how to use Twitter for internet marketing you are not alone. Twitter has taken the world by storm with the ability to keep tens of millions of people connected at anytime day or night 365 days a year. That kind of reach is powerful and as much fun as it is following your favorite people wherever they are going and knowing what they are doing at any given second, that power can translate into sales.
If you are running or thinking about getting involved in an online business then knowing how to use Twitter for internet marketing can make your business soar. The nature of Twitter is perfect for marketing your online business because of the speed at which you can get your message out to literally millions of people. Just like any social networking application Twitter gives you the ability to launch a viral marketing campaign right from your laptop or even PDA device. That is something never before seen in the world of marketing on or offline. This method of marketing has changed the way the entire globe does business.
Knowing how to use Twitter for internet marketing means knowing how and why viral marketing works. In a nutshell, the theory is you send a tweet out to your friend's list regarding something you are doing at that moment in your online business day. Then they will send a tweet out to their list and so on and son until pretty soon thousands of people are seeing your message. Out of those thousands of people you are pretty much guaranteed that a good portion of them will answer whatever call to action you presented in your tweet, like visit my website or something to that effect. Out of those people being called to action there is a good chance someone will buy your service or product, or in the case of affiliate marketing, visit your affiliates' sites.
One thing to keep in mind in how to use Twitter for internet marketing is that because of the viral character, you want to keep your message fresh and frequent. Viral marketing tends to die down on a per message basis so that is why you want to make your content interesting to keep people's attention. All in all it's one of the most effective means of conducting internet marketing.
About A .Causey
To get your message out directly in front of your prospects you will need to consider using Twitter for your marketing. We all know how popular Twitter has become and numbers don't lie. Her are 2 great resources to begin using Twitter the proper way. Twitter Turbo Generator!
If you are running or thinking about getting involved in an online business then knowing how to use Twitter for internet marketing can make your business soar. The nature of Twitter is perfect for marketing your online business because of the speed at which you can get your message out to literally millions of people. Just like any social networking application Twitter gives you the ability to launch a viral marketing campaign right from your laptop or even PDA device. That is something never before seen in the world of marketing on or offline. This method of marketing has changed the way the entire globe does business.
Knowing how to use Twitter for internet marketing means knowing how and why viral marketing works. In a nutshell, the theory is you send a tweet out to your friend's list regarding something you are doing at that moment in your online business day. Then they will send a tweet out to their list and so on and son until pretty soon thousands of people are seeing your message. Out of those thousands of people you are pretty much guaranteed that a good portion of them will answer whatever call to action you presented in your tweet, like visit my website or something to that effect. Out of those people being called to action there is a good chance someone will buy your service or product, or in the case of affiliate marketing, visit your affiliates' sites.
One thing to keep in mind in how to use Twitter for internet marketing is that because of the viral character, you want to keep your message fresh and frequent. Viral marketing tends to die down on a per message basis so that is why you want to make your content interesting to keep people's attention. All in all it's one of the most effective means of conducting internet marketing.
About A .Causey
To get your message out directly in front of your prospects you will need to consider using Twitter for your marketing. We all know how popular Twitter has become and numbers don't lie. Her are 2 great resources to begin using Twitter the proper way. Twitter Turbo Generator!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
What Is The Definition Of Twitter?
With 4 to 5 million registered users, and close to 20 million page views per day, one would think that people know the answer to the question “what is the definition of Twitter?”
No.
The question “what is the definition of Twitter” is still shrouded in mystery. Many people know what Twitter is, but almost no one knows what Twitter really means. It is doubtful that even Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, knows what Twitter means.
However, we can make intelligent guesses based on what we know right now, given Twitter’s amazing popularity which it has gained in such a short period of time.
The philosophy behind Twitter is that it intends to become the SMS of the internet. Given the popularity of cellular phone-based text messaging and the ever-growing impatience of internet users who have become somewhat spoiled by the digital speed by which information is conveyed these days, it would be fair to guess that Twitter wanted to create something that will force people to send messages like SMS and readers to read messages like SMS. What is the definition of Twitter? Well, “SMS for the internet” is pretty close.
These messages are supposed to be short, like a bird’s tweet – a fleeting chirp that is as fleeting as the wind.
A bird’s tweet.
Tweeter.
Twitter.
It comes as no surprise that Twitter messages are called “tweets” as well.
Is this the answer to the question “what is the definition of Twitter?” Perhaps. We will never know for certain. Perhaps there is no real answer to the said query. But it is, by far, the most plausible answer that we can come up with.
But what is the definition of Twitter in a marketer’s perspective? Alas, that is a question that is perfectly answerable with definitiveness.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can act like a mailing list. Amass a lot of followers, and you can follow up on them en masse whenever you have something to share or promote. Your read rate will be higher considering the shorter – and more readable – nature of your messages. And if your read rate is high, your conversion rate should follow suit.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can help you brand yourself or your business. Send messages conveying your thoughts so that your followers will get to know you better. Share every achievement that your business will receive so that your followers will know that your enterprise is a credible one.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can actually serve as your customer support system. Transform it into a real time FAQ, or even as a technical support service.
Given the fact that your Twitter following can be equal in value to your mailing list, you can likewise use the former as leverage for those big ticket joint ventures (JVs).
Much like how speculators buy and sell domains, you can buy and sell Twitter accounts. Currently, big companies are quickly realizing the marketing potentials of Twitter, and if you own the Twitter account name that they need, they may buy it from you for a high price.
What is the definition of Twitter?
For many marketers, it means one thing: a virtual gold mine!
About The Author
Samantha Milner is a well-known Internet Marketing expert and the author of 24 Hour Twitter Expert:
Head over to http://www(dot)24hourtwitterexpert.com to grab your FREE copy now!
No.
The question “what is the definition of Twitter” is still shrouded in mystery. Many people know what Twitter is, but almost no one knows what Twitter really means. It is doubtful that even Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, knows what Twitter means.
However, we can make intelligent guesses based on what we know right now, given Twitter’s amazing popularity which it has gained in such a short period of time.
The philosophy behind Twitter is that it intends to become the SMS of the internet. Given the popularity of cellular phone-based text messaging and the ever-growing impatience of internet users who have become somewhat spoiled by the digital speed by which information is conveyed these days, it would be fair to guess that Twitter wanted to create something that will force people to send messages like SMS and readers to read messages like SMS. What is the definition of Twitter? Well, “SMS for the internet” is pretty close.
These messages are supposed to be short, like a bird’s tweet – a fleeting chirp that is as fleeting as the wind.
A bird’s tweet.
Tweeter.
Twitter.
It comes as no surprise that Twitter messages are called “tweets” as well.
Is this the answer to the question “what is the definition of Twitter?” Perhaps. We will never know for certain. Perhaps there is no real answer to the said query. But it is, by far, the most plausible answer that we can come up with.
But what is the definition of Twitter in a marketer’s perspective? Alas, that is a question that is perfectly answerable with definitiveness.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can act like a mailing list. Amass a lot of followers, and you can follow up on them en masse whenever you have something to share or promote. Your read rate will be higher considering the shorter – and more readable – nature of your messages. And if your read rate is high, your conversion rate should follow suit.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can help you brand yourself or your business. Send messages conveying your thoughts so that your followers will get to know you better. Share every achievement that your business will receive so that your followers will know that your enterprise is a credible one.
Twitter is an amazing tool that can actually serve as your customer support system. Transform it into a real time FAQ, or even as a technical support service.
Given the fact that your Twitter following can be equal in value to your mailing list, you can likewise use the former as leverage for those big ticket joint ventures (JVs).
Much like how speculators buy and sell domains, you can buy and sell Twitter accounts. Currently, big companies are quickly realizing the marketing potentials of Twitter, and if you own the Twitter account name that they need, they may buy it from you for a high price.
What is the definition of Twitter?
For many marketers, it means one thing: a virtual gold mine!
About The Author
Samantha Milner is a well-known Internet Marketing expert and the author of 24 Hour Twitter Expert:
Head over to http://www(dot)24hourtwitterexpert.com to grab your FREE copy now!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Twitter Me This - 25 Twitter Resources You Don't Know, But Should Be Using
Twitter is rapidly becoming one the most popular social networks on Earth! For the newcomer to the growing network, the website can be actually a little overwhelming. Even for some of the Twitter veterans, there are numerous too Twitter resources that can help you have a great micro-blogging experience.
Here are 25 great Twitter Resources You Don't Know, But Should Be Using!
1. TwitWall: Using TwitWall allows users to embed their favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts. Just the kind of stuff to keep your followers following (fans cheering, or clients calling). If you can't Tweet it in 140 characters or less, Twitwall is the resource for you.
2. TwtTrip:Where will you go next? Share your travel plans with your tweeple! Connect with others who may be travelling to the same city, or even in the same airport.
3. Bubble Tweet: Say "Hello" To Your Followers With A BubbleTweet Video! This nifty website allows you to greet followers with a short video clip that you upload. With millions of people using Twitter each day, this one is relatively unknown, with only about 633 people currently using the service.
4. Tweet3: Whether you've got one Twitter account or manage multiple accounts (friends, business, another language - the reasons are plentiful). You can easily click between profiles and customize colors for each account. Tweet3 is utilizing Google's powerful charting and map APIs to bring you useful data about your Twitter accounts and URLs that you share between accounts.
5. TwTip: TwTip created a bot which fetches all new tweets and picks the best valuable tips for you. With its simple interface, users can easily find tweet tips in any subject, like Photoshop, Macintosh, health tips and recipe tips.
6. Twittrans: OK, I really couldn't think of a good use for this Twitter resource at the time of creating this post, but this website is an actual fast human translation of your tweets directly from your twitter account by sending (Reply message) to @twitrans with the source and target languages and the message to translate. Text will be translated by freelance translators around the world, translation service 24/7 in all major languages. Wow, it doesn't get any better than that. Now you just have to find a reason to use it!
7. TwtPoll: Twtpoll is an easy to use survey/ poll twitter app. Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it into your blog or website.
8. Tweetree: Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. In addition, the website pulls in some of your external content including twitpic photos, YouTube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post to Twitter.
9. My Tweet Space: There are numerous websites available that can allow you to create a personalized background on Twitter. However, if you ever wanted to completely brand your Twitter Profile but don't know how, MyTweetSpace allows you to easily create your branded Twitter background.
10. Twilert: As if you already didn't get enough mail in your inbox, here's another inbox filler, but this tool can email you valuable information about you or your company. Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.
11. Split Tweet: Splitweet allows Twitter users to create a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. Additionally, users can also follow your following tweets from all of your managed accounts in Splitweet.
12. Twistory: Users are able to add their Twitter backlog feed to their favorite calendar application and browser through their personal Twitter diary.
13. iTweet: iTweet 2 Web has a built-in auto-refresh, search and hashtags. Full follow, block, notifications features. With this app, users can view Tweeters bio, location, and URL inline with tweets.
14. Tweet Take: Tweetake allows you to back-up your followers, people you are following, favorite tweets, and tweets in general with just one click of your mouse.
15. Twitly: Twitly allows Twitter users to separate the people they follow into groups. Example groups include "chatty", "friends", "co-workers", "journalists" , "celebrities", and more. This makes finding and reading Tweets from the people that matter most to you much easier.
16. Tweenky: Tweenky is a web-based micro-blogging ("tweet") client that currently supports Twitter. The Tweenky main feature is the Integration with Twitter search (formerly Summarize) to allow users to find & track content as it flows through the "Twitterverse".
17. TwiZon: A combination between Twitter and Amazon, Twitzon lists all the tweets that reference Amazon deals so you can find out what's popular and hot right now from Twitter users.
18.Twitzu: If you are making plans to have a meet up, get together or party, you can blast the news out to your Twitter followers. Twitzu creates an event standard for Twitter. Using the site, Twitterers can create an event page for their meet up, party, get together etc. and send it out to their followers who can then RSVP with just a click.
19. Feed Tweeter: Feedtweeter is a little service that allows you to link Twitter to your other activities. Basically it's a system that keeps track of an RSS feed and processes any new items that appear.
20. Chirrup: is comment system which uses Twitter as a data store. People send Twitter replies to you about your site. Then, Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site. You can put the comments wherever you want them, and style them however you please.
21. TwitterFone: TwitterFone is free service that lets you update your Twitter feed using your voice from any mobile or cell phone. You call it, speak your tweet, and hang up. A short while later, your tweet will be posted on Twitter.
22. My Tweet Map: Enter your Twitter name and password, and see the messages from those you follow pop up on a Google Map. You can also update your status right from this application.
23. Tweet Scan: Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter posts. Just enter the term plus a user name (optional), and the system will scan Twitter to show you the results.
24. Twitdir: TwitDir enables you to find statistics of the Top 100 followers, Top 100 followed, Top 100 favoriters and Top 100 updaters. It also works as a search engine for Twitter users, which mean you can find any user information by searching the users name.
25. TwootBall: Where Twitter Meets NFL Football . Posting on Twootball is simple, to post something regarding the New York Jets, just add #jets to your tweet, and your message will appear immediately on Twootball. I guess this would have been a great resource during the Super Bowl, for all those trash talkers! Go Steelers!
Of course, there are a lot more Twitter resources out there, some may even be your favorite, but this list of unknowns should have you dancing for joy and thanking God you are on Twitter.
And now we invite you to find out more about the Twitter social network by visiting our blog at http://www.thefreelancesquad.com/blog and by following us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/freelancesquad.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tamara_S_Johnson
Here are 25 great Twitter Resources You Don't Know, But Should Be Using!
1. TwitWall: Using TwitWall allows users to embed their favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts. Just the kind of stuff to keep your followers following (fans cheering, or clients calling). If you can't Tweet it in 140 characters or less, Twitwall is the resource for you.
2. TwtTrip:Where will you go next? Share your travel plans with your tweeple! Connect with others who may be travelling to the same city, or even in the same airport.
3. Bubble Tweet: Say "Hello" To Your Followers With A BubbleTweet Video! This nifty website allows you to greet followers with a short video clip that you upload. With millions of people using Twitter each day, this one is relatively unknown, with only about 633 people currently using the service.
4. Tweet3: Whether you've got one Twitter account or manage multiple accounts (friends, business, another language - the reasons are plentiful). You can easily click between profiles and customize colors for each account. Tweet3 is utilizing Google's powerful charting and map APIs to bring you useful data about your Twitter accounts and URLs that you share between accounts.
5. TwTip: TwTip created a bot which fetches all new tweets and picks the best valuable tips for you. With its simple interface, users can easily find tweet tips in any subject, like Photoshop, Macintosh, health tips and recipe tips.
6. Twittrans: OK, I really couldn't think of a good use for this Twitter resource at the time of creating this post, but this website is an actual fast human translation of your tweets directly from your twitter account by sending (Reply message) to @twitrans with the source and target languages and the message to translate. Text will be translated by freelance translators around the world, translation service 24/7 in all major languages. Wow, it doesn't get any better than that. Now you just have to find a reason to use it!
7. TwtPoll: Twtpoll is an easy to use survey/ poll twitter app. Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it into your blog or website.
8. Tweetree: Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. In addition, the website pulls in some of your external content including twitpic photos, YouTube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post to Twitter.
9. My Tweet Space: There are numerous websites available that can allow you to create a personalized background on Twitter. However, if you ever wanted to completely brand your Twitter Profile but don't know how, MyTweetSpace allows you to easily create your branded Twitter background.
10. Twilert: As if you already didn't get enough mail in your inbox, here's another inbox filler, but this tool can email you valuable information about you or your company. Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.
11. Split Tweet: Splitweet allows Twitter users to create a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. Additionally, users can also follow your following tweets from all of your managed accounts in Splitweet.
12. Twistory: Users are able to add their Twitter backlog feed to their favorite calendar application and browser through their personal Twitter diary.
13. iTweet: iTweet 2 Web has a built-in auto-refresh, search and hashtags. Full follow, block, notifications features. With this app, users can view Tweeters bio, location, and URL inline with tweets.
14. Tweet Take: Tweetake allows you to back-up your followers, people you are following, favorite tweets, and tweets in general with just one click of your mouse.
15. Twitly: Twitly allows Twitter users to separate the people they follow into groups. Example groups include "chatty", "friends", "co-workers", "journalists" , "celebrities", and more. This makes finding and reading Tweets from the people that matter most to you much easier.
16. Tweenky: Tweenky is a web-based micro-blogging ("tweet") client that currently supports Twitter. The Tweenky main feature is the Integration with Twitter search (formerly Summarize) to allow users to find & track content as it flows through the "Twitterverse".
17. TwiZon: A combination between Twitter and Amazon, Twitzon lists all the tweets that reference Amazon deals so you can find out what's popular and hot right now from Twitter users.
18.Twitzu: If you are making plans to have a meet up, get together or party, you can blast the news out to your Twitter followers. Twitzu creates an event standard for Twitter. Using the site, Twitterers can create an event page for their meet up, party, get together etc. and send it out to their followers who can then RSVP with just a click.
19. Feed Tweeter: Feedtweeter is a little service that allows you to link Twitter to your other activities. Basically it's a system that keeps track of an RSS feed and processes any new items that appear.
20. Chirrup: is comment system which uses Twitter as a data store. People send Twitter replies to you about your site. Then, Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site. You can put the comments wherever you want them, and style them however you please.
21. TwitterFone: TwitterFone is free service that lets you update your Twitter feed using your voice from any mobile or cell phone. You call it, speak your tweet, and hang up. A short while later, your tweet will be posted on Twitter.
22. My Tweet Map: Enter your Twitter name and password, and see the messages from those you follow pop up on a Google Map. You can also update your status right from this application.
23. Tweet Scan: Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter posts. Just enter the term plus a user name (optional), and the system will scan Twitter to show you the results.
24. Twitdir: TwitDir enables you to find statistics of the Top 100 followers, Top 100 followed, Top 100 favoriters and Top 100 updaters. It also works as a search engine for Twitter users, which mean you can find any user information by searching the users name.
25. TwootBall: Where Twitter Meets NFL Football . Posting on Twootball is simple, to post something regarding the New York Jets, just add #jets to your tweet, and your message will appear immediately on Twootball. I guess this would have been a great resource during the Super Bowl, for all those trash talkers! Go Steelers!
Of course, there are a lot more Twitter resources out there, some may even be your favorite, but this list of unknowns should have you dancing for joy and thanking God you are on Twitter.
And now we invite you to find out more about the Twitter social network by visiting our blog at http://www.thefreelancesquad.com/blog and by following us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/freelancesquad.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tamara_S_Johnson
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Twitter ideas on monetization
Guest Post:
Twitter Monetization: How to Make Money With Twitter
Everyone seems to like twitter these days which is a really cool way of staying in touch with your customers, friends & colleagues. Basically twitter has presented itself as a micro-blogging platform where a user can shout out anything they want to his ‘followers’ within the limit of 140 characters.
I have just started twittering since last month (*yes I’m pretty late starter!) because initially by looking at it for the very first time, I couldn’t find any ‘value’ that it has for my work & my social life. However after reading a convincing post by Aaron Wall, I thought of giving twitter a try. Since then onwards I have been using twitter all day long, just to keep track of some of the leading experts in the Internet & Search Marketing field as well as to have some ‘fun’ with my online buddies.
Anyway the whole point of doing this post is to highlight some of the key monetization elements that an individual can explore using twitter. I assume you have the basic knowledge of what twitter is and how it works, so I will directly deep into some ideas which can make you earn money from your twitter.
make money with Twitter
* Direct Advertisement - If a lot of people are following you in ‘twitter’ or in other words if you have a ‘wide reach’ to a large number of twitter users, you can probably look into direct advertisements for monetization.
* Recommendation – You can recommend a particular product or service on behalf of your advertisers & peruse your followers to take an ‘action’.
* Promotion – You can help your advertiser to promote a new product or service to your twitter followers.
It works pretty much like niche marketing because, say if you are an Internet Marketer, It is very likely that most of your followers in Twitter are also from the same area which is why they have ‘followed’ you in the first place.
# Affiliate Marketing – I was listening to Shoemoney’s podcast yesterday where he talked about how affiliate marketing can actually be blended within Twitter.
* Affiliate Links – If you are recommending a Product or a Service to your followers, you can always embed your affiliate link in your tweet. (e.g. Using a service like TinyUrl.com)
* Sales Pages – Instead of taking your followers to another website using your affiliate link, you might just want to promote your own product & services and sell them directly via your sales / landing page.
This is an area where every one can really look into. For instance say when one of your followers is asking for suggestion to choose a web host, you can always suggest him the best one from your experience but at the same time use your affiliate link which can earn you some quick cash.
# Paid Review– This is pretty much like the direct advertisement, however the only difference would be, instead of blindly suggesting a product or a service to someone, you can actually do some ‘paid reviews’.
* Product – You can do a paid review about a particular product (e.g. Internet Marketing software)
* Services – You can do a paid review about services that your advertiser offers. (E.g. SEO Services, Web Hosting Services etc.)
* People – You can also do a paid review about people. For instance, maybe you can review someone’s web design skills, or you may promote someone’s ‘twitter’ account for instance.
# Sponsored Contest– An advertiser may want to run a contest via a popular twitter user to get feedback about his product & services or just to create some brand awareness.
* Feedback – Example - “What New features would you like to see in Product X”?
* Brand Awareness– Example- “Describe product X in 140 Characters” or “Tell us why you like product X within 140 Characters”. The best answer can be given a cool prize sponsored by the advertiser.
# Sponsored Advertisements– There isn’t must difference between this & the direct advertisement. However when I was creating the mind map, this ‘branch’ did somehow pop in, so have decided to include it. I guess the main difference would be that all the tweets which are actually sponsored advertisements can get a predefined prefix which will help your followers to identify them as ads.
* Auto Ads – There can be a mechanism or a ‘new’ 3rd party service which can actually help you to distribute or Tweet the “Ads” when you are ‘not’ tweeting or say when you are idle. An ad interval can also be set so that your frequent sponsored ads don’t annoy your followers.
* Sponsored Actions– Well this might sound like a weird idea but, I feel that some aggressive marketers might like it. Example – “I Love #Google. Re-tweet this message and WIN yourself a GPhone”. Since a hash-tag is used, all the massages can be tracked using that and a lucky winner can actually be picked from the pool.
Some of you may think that all these ‘monetizing’ options can actually turn twitter into an ‘evil’ place and slowly reduce its value. But let’s face it, if you aren’t fully utilizing all the areas of twitter today, somebody else will – tomorrow. But of course you should set a ‘limit’ on how many ‘such tweets’’ you are going to do on a day, so that your followers still consider you as a valuable contact rather than a commercial junkie.
So that’s all folks, if you like my article, you are welcome to add me in your Twitter - @saadkamal. Happy Twittering!
Twitter Monetization: How to Make Money With Twitter
Everyone seems to like twitter these days which is a really cool way of staying in touch with your customers, friends & colleagues. Basically twitter has presented itself as a micro-blogging platform where a user can shout out anything they want to his ‘followers’ within the limit of 140 characters.
I have just started twittering since last month (*yes I’m pretty late starter!) because initially by looking at it for the very first time, I couldn’t find any ‘value’ that it has for my work & my social life. However after reading a convincing post by Aaron Wall, I thought of giving twitter a try. Since then onwards I have been using twitter all day long, just to keep track of some of the leading experts in the Internet & Search Marketing field as well as to have some ‘fun’ with my online buddies.
Anyway the whole point of doing this post is to highlight some of the key monetization elements that an individual can explore using twitter. I assume you have the basic knowledge of what twitter is and how it works, so I will directly deep into some ideas which can make you earn money from your twitter.
make money with Twitter
* Direct Advertisement - If a lot of people are following you in ‘twitter’ or in other words if you have a ‘wide reach’ to a large number of twitter users, you can probably look into direct advertisements for monetization.
* Recommendation – You can recommend a particular product or service on behalf of your advertisers & peruse your followers to take an ‘action’.
* Promotion – You can help your advertiser to promote a new product or service to your twitter followers.
It works pretty much like niche marketing because, say if you are an Internet Marketer, It is very likely that most of your followers in Twitter are also from the same area which is why they have ‘followed’ you in the first place.
# Affiliate Marketing – I was listening to Shoemoney’s podcast yesterday where he talked about how affiliate marketing can actually be blended within Twitter.
* Affiliate Links – If you are recommending a Product or a Service to your followers, you can always embed your affiliate link in your tweet. (e.g. Using a service like TinyUrl.com)
* Sales Pages – Instead of taking your followers to another website using your affiliate link, you might just want to promote your own product & services and sell them directly via your sales / landing page.
This is an area where every one can really look into. For instance say when one of your followers is asking for suggestion to choose a web host, you can always suggest him the best one from your experience but at the same time use your affiliate link which can earn you some quick cash.
# Paid Review– This is pretty much like the direct advertisement, however the only difference would be, instead of blindly suggesting a product or a service to someone, you can actually do some ‘paid reviews’.
* Product – You can do a paid review about a particular product (e.g. Internet Marketing software)
* Services – You can do a paid review about services that your advertiser offers. (E.g. SEO Services, Web Hosting Services etc.)
* People – You can also do a paid review about people. For instance, maybe you can review someone’s web design skills, or you may promote someone’s ‘twitter’ account for instance.
# Sponsored Contest– An advertiser may want to run a contest via a popular twitter user to get feedback about his product & services or just to create some brand awareness.
* Feedback – Example - “What New features would you like to see in Product X”?
* Brand Awareness– Example- “Describe product X in 140 Characters” or “Tell us why you like product X within 140 Characters”. The best answer can be given a cool prize sponsored by the advertiser.
# Sponsored Advertisements– There isn’t must difference between this & the direct advertisement. However when I was creating the mind map, this ‘branch’ did somehow pop in, so have decided to include it. I guess the main difference would be that all the tweets which are actually sponsored advertisements can get a predefined prefix which will help your followers to identify them as ads.
* Auto Ads – There can be a mechanism or a ‘new’ 3rd party service which can actually help you to distribute or Tweet the “Ads” when you are ‘not’ tweeting or say when you are idle. An ad interval can also be set so that your frequent sponsored ads don’t annoy your followers.
* Sponsored Actions– Well this might sound like a weird idea but, I feel that some aggressive marketers might like it. Example – “I Love #Google. Re-tweet this message and WIN yourself a GPhone”. Since a hash-tag is used, all the massages can be tracked using that and a lucky winner can actually be picked from the pool.
Some of you may think that all these ‘monetizing’ options can actually turn twitter into an ‘evil’ place and slowly reduce its value. But let’s face it, if you aren’t fully utilizing all the areas of twitter today, somebody else will – tomorrow. But of course you should set a ‘limit’ on how many ‘such tweets’’ you are going to do on a day, so that your followers still consider you as a valuable contact rather than a commercial junkie.
So that’s all folks, if you like my article, you are welcome to add me in your Twitter - @saadkamal. Happy Twittering!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
How To Use Twitter And Social Media Marketing To Explode Your Online Profits
t’s not surprising that social media has become so popular in so short a time. Not only is it a source of entertainment for most people, it is also the newest strategy for acquiring customers for businesses. And with hot new tools like Twitter, social media marketing has only become more progressive and popular!
What Is Twitter?
In case you’re not familiar with Twitter, it is a social media tool that allows people to know what their fellow twitterers (people using twitter) are doing at this very moment.
Are you getting ready for bed? Put that on Twitter! Are you buying a new couch or writing a report on the effects of social media marketing? Put that on Twitter! Are you throwing a birthday party for your golden retriever? Well, you can put that on Twitter as well. There are no boundaries as to what you can put on Twitter. In Twitter, even the most mundane updates about your life can be pretty liberating.
Sounds simple, right? Perhaps, it is this simplicity that has made Twitter quite a sensation on the Internet. There’s also something amusing about knowing what other people are doing and letting them know your own business as well. This combination of fun and simplicity is what ultimately appeals to Twitter fans.
Applying Twitter In Business
If you’re business-minded, then you probably already have more than a few ideas on how to make this social media marketing tool work for you. Having a Twitter account allows you to inform your clients and would-be clients the progress in your company. You’re not putting up an ad every week (because that tends to be annoying). However, you get the chance to share with them what’s happening to your company’s products, people, tools, etc. right now.
Twitter, unlike MySpace and Facebook, poses an advantage for new and advanced marketers. As an efficient social media marketing tool, Twitter allows you to build a giant list of followers. It allows your clients and subscribers to see what you’re doing right now. It gives them access to your immediate profile and permits you to share your ideas with other twitterers. All free of charge.
How Twitter Can Explode Your Profits
While many people have other purposes and values for the use of the free service, the marketer can use Twitter to jumpstart a list of followers that can grow into thousands.
If you’re someone who sells used cars, you can use Twitter to attract members who are interested in automobiles. When a new shipment comes in, you can use Twitter to announce that the latest Ford model has arrived. Or if you’re having a sale, you can use Twitter to let everybody know about it.
These followers are the next best thing to customers. If they haven’t bought anything from you yet, then you can rest assured that they will be buying something soon. As long as you keep providing them something nice to look forward to, they will always be enticed to purchase something from your company.
Think of it as fishing. You already have the fish interested in your bait. All you have to do is wait for the fish to bite. According to quantcast.com, Twitter reaches about 6.1 million U.S. people every month. This social media tool has also reached other countries and is hugely popular in Japan. In fact, there are other Twitter-like applications that have popped up due to its insane fame!
Despite the huge popularity of Twitter, it is not a disorganized system that doesn’t have any limits. For example, you can only send 1,000 updates, 100 API requests and send 250 direct messages each day. And while there is no limit to the people who can follow you, the same freedom doesn’t apply vice-versa.
The maximum number of people you can follow is limited to 2,000. In Twitter-speak, to follow means to receive Twitter updates. This limit will only be lifted if you manage to attract more than 2,000 followers to your account.
According to Twitter, this is done to prevent SPAM users from adding up into their system and to prevent abuse from all current members.
It’s not that difficult to attract more followers into your account. In the long run, this will only make your Twitter account more meaningful because of the effort you’ve put into it.
The beauty at this stage is that once you are at such a level, it’s easier to attract new followers into your account. The benefits from taking such steps are acquiring your own list of eager followers (in which you can pitch your own products and services); and more importantly, gaining new business contacts.
Other Social Media Marketing Methods
There are other methods of social media marketing available for your use. Twitter isn’t the only way to enhance your business and get a constant flow of leads.
Other methods you can explore include:
1) Blogs
2) Community forums
3) Social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn.
4) Video-sharing sites such as Youtube, Metacafe, Google videos, Yahoo videos, and AOL videos.
5) Content sharing sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Qassia, and Google Knol.
These days, you shouldn’t just limit yourself to one thing. With the Internet as vast as it is, you should use every opportunity to make new contacts and establish yourself. Besides, think of all the new things you can learn from interacting with other people online!
Leave comments on your choice blogs and participate in forum discussions that allow for signature files after every post. Make informative videos and upload them to video-sharing sites. Explode your list of contacts through social networking sites. Share your knowledge and be recognized as an authority by submitting your content to content-sharing sites.
Not only will these help you establish credibility, you probably won’t even have to worry or stress about making money in the future. Remember that social media marketing, like any other marketing methods, works if you work it! Now like many of our mentors say – get to work!
Jeremy Gislason
Jeremy Gislason is co-founder of the world's leading client and content management system, the professional's choice all-in-one "create and manage your own membership sites" e-commerce solution: http://www.memberspeed.com
What Is Twitter?
In case you’re not familiar with Twitter, it is a social media tool that allows people to know what their fellow twitterers (people using twitter) are doing at this very moment.
Are you getting ready for bed? Put that on Twitter! Are you buying a new couch or writing a report on the effects of social media marketing? Put that on Twitter! Are you throwing a birthday party for your golden retriever? Well, you can put that on Twitter as well. There are no boundaries as to what you can put on Twitter. In Twitter, even the most mundane updates about your life can be pretty liberating.
Sounds simple, right? Perhaps, it is this simplicity that has made Twitter quite a sensation on the Internet. There’s also something amusing about knowing what other people are doing and letting them know your own business as well. This combination of fun and simplicity is what ultimately appeals to Twitter fans.
Applying Twitter In Business
If you’re business-minded, then you probably already have more than a few ideas on how to make this social media marketing tool work for you. Having a Twitter account allows you to inform your clients and would-be clients the progress in your company. You’re not putting up an ad every week (because that tends to be annoying). However, you get the chance to share with them what’s happening to your company’s products, people, tools, etc. right now.
Twitter, unlike MySpace and Facebook, poses an advantage for new and advanced marketers. As an efficient social media marketing tool, Twitter allows you to build a giant list of followers. It allows your clients and subscribers to see what you’re doing right now. It gives them access to your immediate profile and permits you to share your ideas with other twitterers. All free of charge.
How Twitter Can Explode Your Profits
While many people have other purposes and values for the use of the free service, the marketer can use Twitter to jumpstart a list of followers that can grow into thousands.
If you’re someone who sells used cars, you can use Twitter to attract members who are interested in automobiles. When a new shipment comes in, you can use Twitter to announce that the latest Ford model has arrived. Or if you’re having a sale, you can use Twitter to let everybody know about it.
These followers are the next best thing to customers. If they haven’t bought anything from you yet, then you can rest assured that they will be buying something soon. As long as you keep providing them something nice to look forward to, they will always be enticed to purchase something from your company.
Think of it as fishing. You already have the fish interested in your bait. All you have to do is wait for the fish to bite. According to quantcast.com, Twitter reaches about 6.1 million U.S. people every month. This social media tool has also reached other countries and is hugely popular in Japan. In fact, there are other Twitter-like applications that have popped up due to its insane fame!
Despite the huge popularity of Twitter, it is not a disorganized system that doesn’t have any limits. For example, you can only send 1,000 updates, 100 API requests and send 250 direct messages each day. And while there is no limit to the people who can follow you, the same freedom doesn’t apply vice-versa.
The maximum number of people you can follow is limited to 2,000. In Twitter-speak, to follow means to receive Twitter updates. This limit will only be lifted if you manage to attract more than 2,000 followers to your account.
According to Twitter, this is done to prevent SPAM users from adding up into their system and to prevent abuse from all current members.
It’s not that difficult to attract more followers into your account. In the long run, this will only make your Twitter account more meaningful because of the effort you’ve put into it.
The beauty at this stage is that once you are at such a level, it’s easier to attract new followers into your account. The benefits from taking such steps are acquiring your own list of eager followers (in which you can pitch your own products and services); and more importantly, gaining new business contacts.
Other Social Media Marketing Methods
There are other methods of social media marketing available for your use. Twitter isn’t the only way to enhance your business and get a constant flow of leads.
Other methods you can explore include:
1) Blogs
2) Community forums
3) Social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn.
4) Video-sharing sites such as Youtube, Metacafe, Google videos, Yahoo videos, and AOL videos.
5) Content sharing sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Qassia, and Google Knol.
These days, you shouldn’t just limit yourself to one thing. With the Internet as vast as it is, you should use every opportunity to make new contacts and establish yourself. Besides, think of all the new things you can learn from interacting with other people online!
Leave comments on your choice blogs and participate in forum discussions that allow for signature files after every post. Make informative videos and upload them to video-sharing sites. Explode your list of contacts through social networking sites. Share your knowledge and be recognized as an authority by submitting your content to content-sharing sites.
Not only will these help you establish credibility, you probably won’t even have to worry or stress about making money in the future. Remember that social media marketing, like any other marketing methods, works if you work it! Now like many of our mentors say – get to work!
Jeremy Gislason
Jeremy Gislason is co-founder of the world's leading client and content management system, the professional's choice all-in-one "create and manage your own membership sites" e-commerce solution: http://www.memberspeed.com
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Secret Twitter Tricks for Newbies & Pros
1. Choose a client software
Most individuals install a client software program (a way to send and receive Twitter “tweets”) on their computer. Here are a few choices Twitter shows on their download page, along with other popular clients:
Digsby IM + Email + Social Networks
Twitteroo Fast Tweeting, a few nice settings
Twitbin Uses Firefox Browser - plugin
Spaz Mac/Windows/Linux
Snitter Mac/Windows (Linux in the works)
Twhirl Mac/Windows (Connects to multiple accounts - very popular)
TweetDeck Mac/Windows/Linux (my personal favorite)
Twitterrific Mac (Application that lets you read/post “tweets”)
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2. Twitter Shortcuts
Currently I subscribe to a few news groups. However, there has been an occasion where I just didn’t wish to receive any “tweets” (text messages) from Twitter for a short period of time on my cell phone. The following commands will allow you to take full control of Twitter from your cell phone.
Type the following commands into your SMS device (for the newbie, here is how you can use your cell phone to command Twitter in a pinch):
1. Text Twitter (with the phone number of 40404)
2. Enter the following commands as a txt message, and send the message with your command of choice.
OFF: turns phone notifications off, to silence direct messages too, send ‘off’ again
ON: turns phone notifications on
SLEEP: turns phone notifications off
WAKE: turns phone notifications on
FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
LEAVE username : turns off notifications for a specific individual
D username message: sends a private message to a specific individual, but they must be following you to receive it (D joesmith Hello World)
@username: sends a public message to a specific individual (@joesmith Hellow World)
WHOIS username: returns bio info for a Twitter member
GET username : returns the last update from a specific individual
FAVE username : marks the last update of a user as a favorite
TRACK word : returns updates from the Twitter community containing the tracked word
TRACKING: returns a list of words you’re tracking
UNTRACK word : stops tracking a word
UNTRACK all : stops tracking all words
INVITE 4155225678: invites a friend via SMS/text message to join Twitter **(use their phone number with no spaces or dashes)**
STATS: returns statistics with your number of “followers” and “following”
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3. How to Backup Twitter
On July 24, 2008, Twitter lost many users following/followers. Twitter.com states “We’ve restored 99.6% of following/followers that disappeared. numbers & profile pics in sidebar may not be accurate until tomorrow afternoon 07:37 PM July 24, 2008 from web.”
I felt a large pit in my stomach, knowing I had lost many individuals I followed, and could not recall all of them to “search” their user name again. Many wonderful individuals were stumbled upon.
After much research on the Internet I located two choices.
If you do/don’t use MS Outlook, here is very good reason to use it. There is a plug-in tool called “OutTwit” which allows you to “tweet” with MS Outlook. The benefit of using MS Outlook for your tweeting needs out weighs the desire to not use MS Outlook. Here’s a quick explanation why. Outlook downloads the usernames you correspond with daily from Twitter.com (the same way e-mail works). This pulls the information from Twitter’s server to your hard drive. Now you have the usernames stored in MS Outlook that you correspond with, if Twitter happens to lose our information again.
The best I saved for last. The brilliant Twitter member vkoser, posted a wonderful step-by-step guide on how to download your “following” and “followers” directly from Twitter, and export them into an MS Excel file, for safe keeping. Thank you vkoser!
Great artice courtesy of this blog here
Most individuals install a client software program (a way to send and receive Twitter “tweets”) on their computer. Here are a few choices Twitter shows on their download page, along with other popular clients:
Digsby IM + Email + Social Networks
Twitteroo Fast Tweeting, a few nice settings
Twitbin Uses Firefox Browser - plugin
Spaz Mac/Windows/Linux
Snitter Mac/Windows (Linux in the works)
Twhirl Mac/Windows (Connects to multiple accounts - very popular)
TweetDeck Mac/Windows/Linux (my personal favorite)
Twitterrific Mac (Application that lets you read/post “tweets”)
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2. Twitter Shortcuts
Currently I subscribe to a few news groups. However, there has been an occasion where I just didn’t wish to receive any “tweets” (text messages) from Twitter for a short period of time on my cell phone. The following commands will allow you to take full control of Twitter from your cell phone.
Type the following commands into your SMS device (for the newbie, here is how you can use your cell phone to command Twitter in a pinch):
1. Text Twitter (with the phone number of 40404)
2. Enter the following commands as a txt message, and send the message with your command of choice.
OFF: turns phone notifications off, to silence direct messages too, send ‘off’ again
ON: turns phone notifications on
SLEEP: turns phone notifications off
WAKE: turns phone notifications on
FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
LEAVE username : turns off notifications for a specific individual
D username message: sends a private message to a specific individual, but they must be following you to receive it (D joesmith Hello World)
@username: sends a public message to a specific individual (@joesmith Hellow World)
WHOIS username: returns bio info for a Twitter member
GET username : returns the last update from a specific individual
FAVE username : marks the last update of a user as a favorite
TRACK word : returns updates from the Twitter community containing the tracked word
TRACKING: returns a list of words you’re tracking
UNTRACK word : stops tracking a word
UNTRACK all : stops tracking all words
INVITE 4155225678: invites a friend via SMS/text message to join Twitter **(use their phone number with no spaces or dashes)**
STATS: returns statistics with your number of “followers” and “following”
————
3. How to Backup Twitter
On July 24, 2008, Twitter lost many users following/followers. Twitter.com states “We’ve restored 99.6% of following/followers that disappeared. numbers & profile pics in sidebar may not be accurate until tomorrow afternoon 07:37 PM July 24, 2008 from web.”
I felt a large pit in my stomach, knowing I had lost many individuals I followed, and could not recall all of them to “search” their user name again. Many wonderful individuals were stumbled upon.
After much research on the Internet I located two choices.
If you do/don’t use MS Outlook, here is very good reason to use it. There is a plug-in tool called “OutTwit” which allows you to “tweet” with MS Outlook. The benefit of using MS Outlook for your tweeting needs out weighs the desire to not use MS Outlook. Here’s a quick explanation why. Outlook downloads the usernames you correspond with daily from Twitter.com (the same way e-mail works). This pulls the information from Twitter’s server to your hard drive. Now you have the usernames stored in MS Outlook that you correspond with, if Twitter happens to lose our information again.
The best I saved for last. The brilliant Twitter member vkoser, posted a wonderful step-by-step guide on how to download your “following” and “followers” directly from Twitter, and export them into an MS Excel file, for safe keeping. Thank you vkoser!
Great artice courtesy of this blog here
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Powerful Twitter tools for traffic
This is a great article I read the other day from an online friend, The Traffic Gur.
I had to share it with all of you. Before I post the article however, after you read it make sure you get over to his site and follow him, he really is great.
Here it is.
Traffic Rank of Twitter in alexa ranking is now 54 and hope it will decrease more because Twitter is becoming more Popular now.Adding your Twitter profile link to other social Networking sites will brings you traffic such as facebook,Blogcatalog ,friendfeed,linkedin,mybloglog,plaxo and tumblr etc.., I listed some twitter tools which helps to enhance twitter more.
1.Twitterfeed is a service which will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog and you can get some followers and visitors from it.
2.Retweet is nothing but when you come across an interesting tweet and you want to republish it so that people who follow you can see it too.Add retweet button to your blog posts ,so if any visitor like your post ,they retweet it and their followers can see and you can get some traffic.
3.Twittercounter make visitors get attention which shows that how many people are following you in Twitter.Get the code from TwitterCounter.com and edit the username with your Twitter profile name and add it on your blog, website and in forum signatures.
4.Tweetbeep helps you to get Twitter alerts in e-mail with often updates when any conversations mention you and those who’s tweeting your site or blog.
5.Twitterholic shows the statistics and ranking of Twitter Users and it ranks the most popular twitter users based on the followers and you can check your ranking in twitterholic too.
6.Tweetlater helps you to Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets.
7.TwitResponse is a auto-responder in which you can Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.
8.Socialtoo will help you to keep track of all those Twitter users who followed or unfollowed you.
9.MrTweet is a personal networking assistant which will help you to find your relevant Twitter followers.
10.Whoshouldifollow will helps you to find other interesting people who are similar to those you already follow and then to follow them in twitter.
11.TweetManager helps to setup the Auto Follow, Send Message to Followers, Auto Reply, Auto Post and Tweet RSS Feeds.
12.TwitterKarma can manage your friends,followers and mutual friends and you can un-follow those twitter users who are not following you on twitter.
Article Source
I had to share it with all of you. Before I post the article however, after you read it make sure you get over to his site and follow him, he really is great.
Here it is.
Traffic Rank of Twitter in alexa ranking is now 54 and hope it will decrease more because Twitter is becoming more Popular now.Adding your Twitter profile link to other social Networking sites will brings you traffic such as facebook,Blogcatalog ,friendfeed,linkedin,mybloglog,plaxo and tumblr etc.., I listed some twitter tools which helps to enhance twitter more.
1.Twitterfeed is a service which will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog and you can get some followers and visitors from it.
2.Retweet is nothing but when you come across an interesting tweet and you want to republish it so that people who follow you can see it too.Add retweet button to your blog posts ,so if any visitor like your post ,they retweet it and their followers can see and you can get some traffic.
3.Twittercounter make visitors get attention which shows that how many people are following you in Twitter.Get the code from TwitterCounter.com and edit the username with your Twitter profile name and add it on your blog, website and in forum signatures.
4.Tweetbeep helps you to get Twitter alerts in e-mail with often updates when any conversations mention you and those who’s tweeting your site or blog.
5.Twitterholic shows the statistics and ranking of Twitter Users and it ranks the most popular twitter users based on the followers and you can check your ranking in twitterholic too.
6.Tweetlater helps you to Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets.
7.TwitResponse is a auto-responder in which you can Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.
8.Socialtoo will help you to keep track of all those Twitter users who followed or unfollowed you.
9.MrTweet is a personal networking assistant which will help you to find your relevant Twitter followers.
10.Whoshouldifollow will helps you to find other interesting people who are similar to those you already follow and then to follow them in twitter.
11.TweetManager helps to setup the Auto Follow, Send Message to Followers, Auto Reply, Auto Post and Tweet RSS Feeds.
12.TwitterKarma can manage your friends,followers and mutual friends and you can un-follow those twitter users who are not following you on twitter.
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Popularity of Twitter Applications in Youth
With the passage of time, things have changed and improved. Like in computers character user interface was used but with the popularity of computer, graphic user interface was used. Graphic user interface became so popular because of its application, its user friendly environment and its appearance. Twitter applications are the examples of graphic user interface. Special applications are provided by The Twitter Secret. With these applications, usage of applications become easy and saves lots of time.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i Technologies.
Twitter Applications have become very popular in youths. Main reason is these are very attractive and eye catchy. Applications are specifically designed according to youth's environment because maximum young people surf the net most especially social networking websites like twitter, facebook etc.
Twitter Applications are additional features that can be added to the twitter secret. By adding a twitter application to your profile, your public profile information will be shared through the application with its developer, with your friends who receive your updates on twitter.
There are various kinds of applications like computer application which is known as software in your compute. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, internet, browsing, and anti-virus and e-mail software. The entire buzz for the past year has been about social applications, interactive pieces of media that you can install on your Twitter.
Twitter is becoming popular day by day and now it's impossible to escape from twitter. With the usage of it, it's becoming popular and to increase its interactivity various twitter applications are launching in market. Applications like playing games, using stylish fonts in your account, sending flowers to your friend on his/her birthday and so on. The reason of popularity is also 140 microblogging systems which twitter uses. In microblogging, you can send short message to your friend and its character limit is only 140.
Many of twitter applications are written by harmless programming enthusiasts as a bit of fun, but many are also written purely for marketing purposes. Nowadays marketing has become 1st most step of any product. It is the kind of conveying and telling information about the product to the customers. If marketing strategy is good and attractive then no doubts customer will use the product at least for once. It's all about promoting your product to the user and nowadays the main medium of marketing is television and internet. These are the 2 mediums which is most popular and useful nowadays.
Using social networking site is really popular because you can contact to your old buddies through it. That's why people love it while using it. And they try various things on it. For example, if today I have launched twitter application - "make love relations". I assure you while seeing this application maximum user will add this application in your account and start using it. The main motive of any application is to increase popularity among users.
The main motive behind twitter application is to give the facility to the user, to enjoy the website while using it. Many of twitter applications are written by harmless programming enthusiasts as a bit of fun, but many are also written purely for marketing purposes.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i Technologies.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Kutcher, CNN and Opera...what's the common denominator here?
The Kutcher/CNN race to a million on top of Oprah showcasing the service on Friday, this probably came close to shutting their server's down :)
The week before the Kutcher/CNN race, Ashton Kutcherhad a huge spike to the tune of roughly 176,000 pageviews, according to online sources. Amazingly last week, they sky rocketed to a whopping 3.2 million!!
CNNbrk (his twitter nemesis) went from 61,000 pageviews to over 900,000.
Then there's Oprah, she did her first tweet last Friday and not overly surprisingly she got over 980,000. But hey it is OPRAH!
It seems celebrities are taking over the twitter world for now...hmmm..I think...naaah....no point changing my account to a fake name lol
Twitter is poised to pretty much blow up traffic wise this month and will likely finish up over 30 million UVs.
Okay this is not a twitter trick or tip....or is it.
Best
The week before the Kutcher/CNN race, Ashton Kutcherhad a huge spike to the tune of roughly 176,000 pageviews, according to online sources. Amazingly last week, they sky rocketed to a whopping 3.2 million!!
CNNbrk (his twitter nemesis) went from 61,000 pageviews to over 900,000.
Then there's Oprah, she did her first tweet last Friday and not overly surprisingly she got over 980,000. But hey it is OPRAH!
It seems celebrities are taking over the twitter world for now...hmmm..I think...naaah....no point changing my account to a fake name lol
Twitter is poised to pretty much blow up traffic wise this month and will likely finish up over 30 million UVs.
Okay this is not a twitter trick or tip....or is it.
Best
Saturday, April 18, 2009
More things twitter, tools and tips
Twitter has been around for a few years now and yet it seems to be taking off like a wild fire only now. Why that is, well to quote the poet "I am not know" ;) what I can tell you is that just from the reaction I have heard and seen it ask become obvious to me that most people see twitter as nothing more than a simple stay in touch tool. I say this from a poll I took from close friends and family members, please don't think I mean the greater populus.
But there is so much you can do with twitter. So much to do and so little time.
Having said that I am going to do a few things over the next few weeks. I am going to write an in depth article every three or four days on certain twitter things. If I repeat one or two please forgive me, after all I am doing this for you guys, my loyal twitter friends and even those of you who follow my blog via the hidden option....I know a few do ;)
Here we go.
Make your twitter profile stand out (above the rest)....I haven't done this myself but I have too much on the go at the moment.
To get started go to your Twitter home page and click on settings at the top.
First and foremost, if you have a web site or blog make sure you set the ‘More Info URL’. This link appears in your profile page and is a do-follow link. Because of Twitter's on going popularity it is seen as good quality and serves as a high quality backlink for you in the BIG G. (Google)
Now we move on to your One Line Bio. You only have 160 characters so make them count, write it as often as you want until it jumps at you, if you love it so will we!
Lastly you can set your Location. I want to know what part of the world you live in.
A final not here is the Protect my Updates section. This just means you grant permission to see who views and who doesn't
A picture says a thousand words. True enough but personally I always advise people to use their own pic. It adds a sense of humanity. For the most part if I see someone I want to follow and the pic is not of them I debate it. I have my reasons.....this is your personal call.
A lot of people argue the avatar, again I don't like it much but it will help you stand out from the rest of the crowd.
If you have profiles on similar sites like Facebook, StumbleUpon to name a few it is a very good idea to use the same pic. Not only does this keep you looking better, it's a hell of a good branding tool since people will become familiar with your face and it helps to build up trust online.
And the final tip for today's episode is TwitterTimer, this is a great tool as it will send you reminders. I love it.
Okay, long article...whew I need a coffee.
See you all in a day or so.
Cheers
Garret
But there is so much you can do with twitter. So much to do and so little time.
Having said that I am going to do a few things over the next few weeks. I am going to write an in depth article every three or four days on certain twitter things. If I repeat one or two please forgive me, after all I am doing this for you guys, my loyal twitter friends and even those of you who follow my blog via the hidden option....I know a few do ;)
Here we go.
Make your twitter profile stand out (above the rest)....I haven't done this myself but I have too much on the go at the moment.
To get started go to your Twitter home page and click on settings at the top.
First and foremost, if you have a web site or blog make sure you set the ‘More Info URL’. This link appears in your profile page and is a do-follow link. Because of Twitter's on going popularity it is seen as good quality and serves as a high quality backlink for you in the BIG G. (Google)
Now we move on to your One Line Bio. You only have 160 characters so make them count, write it as often as you want until it jumps at you, if you love it so will we!
Lastly you can set your Location. I want to know what part of the world you live in.
A final not here is the Protect my Updates section. This just means you grant permission to see who views and who doesn't
A picture says a thousand words. True enough but personally I always advise people to use their own pic. It adds a sense of humanity. For the most part if I see someone I want to follow and the pic is not of them I debate it. I have my reasons.....this is your personal call.
A lot of people argue the avatar, again I don't like it much but it will help you stand out from the rest of the crowd.
If you have profiles on similar sites like Facebook, StumbleUpon to name a few it is a very good idea to use the same pic. Not only does this keep you looking better, it's a hell of a good branding tool since people will become familiar with your face and it helps to build up trust online.
And the final tip for today's episode is TwitterTimer, this is a great tool as it will send you reminders. I love it.
Okay, long article...whew I need a coffee.
See you all in a day or so.
Cheers
Garret
Friday, April 17, 2009
Twitter: Response to two reader questions.
That's why I blog, I love to help folks out.
Send me some love;)
Tweet Question 1:
What’s the Fail Whale?
When Twitter’s servers get overloaded, all of a sudden you see a picture of a bunch of birds trying to lift a whale out of the water. There is no way the birds will lift the whale, ergo the twitter servers are overloaded.
Grab a coffee, snack etc. It might be a while before you get back, maybe a few minutes to a few hours.
Tweet Question 2:
Twitter HT means Heard Through
If you found out about something through a Twitter user, and you want to let people know you heard it from them thus HT = you Heard it Through them. This is different than RT, because it most likely means you heard it in real life, not over Twitter.
That's it for the Q & A
Oh one more twrick ;)
Twitter Hash Tags (#) :
The point of this without going overboard is anytime someone uses the phrase #dog in their tweet, it will be much easier to find in search.twitter.com than if you just searched for dog, because the word Pdog associates with many things.
Happy Tweeting.
Please digg or stumble if you enjoyed this article.
Thanks
Send me some love;)
Tweet Question 1:
What’s the Fail Whale?
When Twitter’s servers get overloaded, all of a sudden you see a picture of a bunch of birds trying to lift a whale out of the water. There is no way the birds will lift the whale, ergo the twitter servers are overloaded.
Grab a coffee, snack etc. It might be a while before you get back, maybe a few minutes to a few hours.
Tweet Question 2:
Twitter HT means Heard Through
If you found out about something through a Twitter user, and you want to let people know you heard it from them thus HT = you Heard it Through them. This is different than RT, because it most likely means you heard it in real life, not over Twitter.
That's it for the Q & A
Oh one more twrick ;)
Twitter Hash Tags (#) :
The point of this without going overboard is anytime someone uses the phrase #dog in their tweet, it will be much easier to find in search.twitter.com than if you just searched for dog, because the word Pdog associates with many things.
Happy Tweeting.
Please digg or stumble if you enjoyed this article.
Thanks
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Today's twitter tricks.
I have mentioned Twitterfeed, but I love it and want new reader's to love it also.
Basically it can take almost any blog and feed it into a Twitter account, so you see new items when you're on Twitter.
Blog-to-Twitter
Twitterfeed can make pretty much any blog into a Twitterbot.
You do need an openid for this service. Simply got to MyOpenId and register.
Twitterfeed is very particular about RSS formatting, but standard blog platforms (Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, etc.) should generate code it can handle.
Next;
Facebook-to-Twitter
Yes, you can get Facebook updates in Twitter.
This one is personal for how many people you want viewing your tweets. I was using it but I don't anymore. You find it in your facebook settings.
Be warned however, it can cause issues.
Basically it can take almost any blog and feed it into a Twitter account, so you see new items when you're on Twitter.
Blog-to-Twitter
Twitterfeed can make pretty much any blog into a Twitterbot.
You do need an openid for this service. Simply got to MyOpenId and register.
Twitterfeed is very particular about RSS formatting, but standard blog platforms (Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, etc.) should generate code it can handle.
Next;
Facebook-to-Twitter
Yes, you can get Facebook updates in Twitter.
This one is personal for how many people you want viewing your tweets. I was using it but I don't anymore. You find it in your facebook settings.
Be warned however, it can cause issues.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
If you twitter you NEED Chat catcher
Blog comments happen everywhere...I was going through my comments and traffic sources when I came across this earlier today and had to share.
Chat Catcher supports Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca, along with any type of blog, and all url-shortening services.
They actually translate short urls back to long urls, so you receive full search engine benefits.
The Chat Catcher process is simple...
1. Install the WordPress Plugin or Blog Script. You can also choose to go Scriptless
2. They will monitor social media services (like Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca) for comments on your blog posts.
3. Captured comments are posted to your blog.
It's free and I love it. Check it out now.
Chat Catcher
Chat Catcher supports Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca, along with any type of blog, and all url-shortening services.
They actually translate short urls back to long urls, so you receive full search engine benefits.
The Chat Catcher process is simple...
1. Install the WordPress Plugin or Blog Script. You can also choose to go Scriptless
2. They will monitor social media services (like Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca) for comments on your blog posts.
3. Captured comments are posted to your blog.
It's free and I love it. Check it out now.
Chat Catcher
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Suffering from lack of web traffic?
Web Traffic Juggernaut is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test...
My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.
The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up & running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Juggernaut" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Juggernaut Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!
After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Juggernaut link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Juggernaut link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Juggernaut. So if anyone clicks the Juggernaut image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.
Now every time the ad window displays (your Juggernaut links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.
And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Juggernaut (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Juggernaut image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Juggernaut also.
I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Juggernaut even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.
There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Juggernaut really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that they use a unique dual-matrix technology that builds your downline in 2 ways. First is the typical way--you refer members, who then refer members, etc. But the 2nd matrix is a "forced matrix" that places all new members in a downline in sequential order. Without getting technical, what it means is that if you join and just stay a member (even if you don't do anything) your downline will grow automatically because new members will fill in your forced matrix. And you earn credits on them too. Now THAT's cool.
Overall I have to say I am impressed with Web Traffic Juggernaut. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.
See it & join here:
webtrafficjuggernaut
My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.
The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up & running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Juggernaut" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Juggernaut Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!
After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Juggernaut link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Juggernaut link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Juggernaut. So if anyone clicks the Juggernaut image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.
Now every time the ad window displays (your Juggernaut links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.
And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Juggernaut (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Juggernaut image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Juggernaut also.
I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Juggernaut even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.
There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Juggernaut really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that they use a unique dual-matrix technology that builds your downline in 2 ways. First is the typical way--you refer members, who then refer members, etc. But the 2nd matrix is a "forced matrix" that places all new members in a downline in sequential order. Without getting technical, what it means is that if you join and just stay a member (even if you don't do anything) your downline will grow automatically because new members will fill in your forced matrix. And you earn credits on them too. Now THAT's cool.
Overall I have to say I am impressed with Web Traffic Juggernaut. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.
See it & join here:
webtrafficjuggernaut
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