Objects. Ajag. Following. CV. Whatshot. Jeremiahowyang. HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community. Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. In my previous post I discussed how to build your Twitter community, offering 10 tips as a guide. Here are a few tips on what not to do: (Make sure you know a few of the basic Twitter commands to understand the content of this post.) Don’t get caught up in the COUNT; get caught up in the CONTENT! My biggest pet peeve on Twitter is when people ask for more followers. It’s much worse to have someone follow you, not like what you tweet and then unfollow you. Don’t install the Twitter application on Facebook if you send more than 10 tweets per day You will seriously start to confuse your network…or worse, annoy them.
I learned this lesson from a personal mistake. Don’t publicly thank each of your followers The quickest way to get people to stop following you is to provide a lack of good content or engaging dialogue. 1. Keep it short and sweet. Twitter Hiring Product Manager To Bring In The Revenue. Twitter’s business model (or rather lack of one) is a topic of endless debate. Like many successful startups that came before it the company has been successful in getting users and usage when it doesn’t charge a cent. But ramping up revenue is a different matter.
And Twitter is now in the process of doing just that. Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes too much of a problem and let their new parent deal with it (see YouTube). A nice side benefit of having no revenue is that the MBAs can’t use your actual financials to determine your valuation. Twitter Grader - Measure Your Social Media Profile. Practical Applications of Twitter in Manufacturing? Over the past few weeks I've had a couple of interesting discussions about the introduction of Twitter to Manufacturing. When someone poses a question like this to me, it throws me for a minor loop, because for very basic, practical reasons, it just doesn't seem to apply. More keyboards & data entry on the floor? Not likely. However, a few months ago I wrote this rather breathless item, expounding on a brainstorm regarding the use of YouTube and Twitter in a manufacturing setting. Back then, my summary point was about the value of alternative mechanisms for capturing and distributing process documentation.
I noted that Twitter was less intimidating than other documentation tools - it's all about capturing status or best practices. But after the past few months of heavier use (@jpmacl), I typically explain Twitter as a keyboard-enhanced conversation - a "false path" for Lean aficionados if you are trying to capture knowledge (the Archaeopteryx of Manufacturing KM?) Alltop - Top Twitter News. Twitterverse segmentation: The Journalists « Dr Fuzzy’s Weblog. I am seduced by the interest in yesterday’s post, which remains sloppy and in need of tightening. There are many types I missed, so let me try to flesh this out a bit. To review, these are observations, not completed analysis.
But through this first pass, we may glean some common characteristics. To be serious about this, I would need a significant data sample – please do not imagine I have cut through thousands of twitter users to develop these types. But I’d like to. To recap, we have: Incurious Celebrity – 1:60+ Augmenting value provided elsewhere, but not actively listening to Twitter. Curious Celebrity – 1:1 Augmenting value provided elsewhere, also engaging and listening to their followers. Engaged Intellectual – (1:10) truly seeking to engage the people they follow, providing unique value online. Balanced Invisible – (1:1), for small values of 1. Empty Suit - marketers, spammers, other folks who believe connecting with zero value is useful for anyone other than themselves.
Mr. The 10 Users You'll Meet on Twitter. Ryan Deal is a social media and creative advertising lover who's got an eye for good design and a passion that won't quit. He authors a blog at ryanyeah.com. Twitter is undoubtedly becoming one of the fastest growing social media tools in existence. As it continues to expand, so too does the diversity of its user base. Whether you’re new to Twitter, a veteran user, or someone that is just interested, here’s a list of the 10 people you meet on Twitter. There may be more, but this is a great place to start. Feel free to suggest more types of accounts you may encounter in the comments section. 1.
From Twitter accounts that claim to be God (way_truth_life, god, holygod) to accounts that provide fun games to kill time (tweetbomb, secrettweet, etc.), memes, which are defined on Wikipedia as intangible elements of our culture, are constantly popping up on Twitter. 2. Some brands really get it, and those are the ones that should be on Twitter. Then, there are brands that use Twitter to spam. 3.
Twitter Chats. TweetStalk. GET IT: My Twitter Toolbar - Free Twitter Toolbar for Business Twitterers, Social Media Marketing, Twitter Addicts & Twitter Marketing by Dan Hollings, Twitter Strategy Expert. Main Point of Twitter? Re-Tweeting. | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis. Shoot. What’s the point of Twitter? I have caught myself numerous times at meetings, seminars, and in casual conversations not being able to answer that question.
It goes something like this: “Uh, well I use it for information gathering and well… some people use it to keep up to date with friends.. Yah, ya know… You might as well use it for 30 days and just figure out what it can do for you.” Stupid answer. I have been debating this for awhile now and have even written about the concept of Twitter not having much of a brand identity (which I will write about later). What are the two main marketing tools small business owners would love to have working on their side: Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Viral Marketing. Why is Re-Tweeting So Important? Twitter Twerp Scan - block Twitter spammers - Download Squad. Twitter users are increasingly starting to question whether the frequent number of Twitter accounts that are following them are actually people, or simply a form of Twitter spamming. The rule of thumb with that sort of question is usually that if you think something nefarious might be going on, unfortunately, you're probably right.
The next question that invariably comes up is, well, why? What benefit do these purported Twitter spammers get from friending everyone they possibly can? The answer is twofold: 1. 2. So now that we've discussed whether or not Twitter spamming exists (it does) and whether it's worthwhile (unfortunately, it is), what can we do about it? Though Twitter itself is conspicuously quiet about the topic of Twitter spamming, and does not offer any useful tools for managing Twitter spam, they do have a useful API available for other developers to make use of. Give it a try and scan your account. Welcome to the digital age. Add a Video To Your Twitter Page In Seconds with BubbleTweet. Twittering Celebrities Take Fans Backstage in Their Lives - Bits Blog. UPDATED 2:00 p.m.: Corrected: Shaquille O’Neal is not retired, but currently plays for the Phoenix Suns. Paparazzi, eat your hearts out: Celebrities are now taking their own candid photos of themselves and putting them on the Web.
Twitter screen shot. While watching the Academy Awards on TV Sunday night, Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore sent text updates to fans via Twitter. At a post-Oscars party afterward, they also uploaded several grainy photographs using TwitPic, an application that allows users to post pictures taken with their mobile phones to their Twitter accounts. Mr. Kutcher posted two low-resolution photos: a blurred image of producer Sean Combs along with the note “Diddy throws up oscars” and one of Mr. Kutcher himself clutching an Oscar, accompanied by the text “Me and penelopes oscar.” Both Mr. For example, in early February, soul songstress Erykah Badu and her partner, Jay Electronica, sent blow-by-blow updates detailing of the birth of their daughter. Twitter: The hottest Web startup - Aug. 6, 2008. (Fortune Magazine) -- I am sitting in a meeting room at the San Francisco offices of Twitter, chatting with the fast-growing startup's 31-year-old CEO, Jack Dorsey, when a wave of dj vu washes over me.
The youthful vibe, the playful decor, the funky South of Market loft space - I've been here before. In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg earnestly explained to me the importance of Facebook as we sat in his similarly appointed office in Palo Alto. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen walked me through YouTube's growth story the following year in their cramped space above a San Mateo, Calif., pizza parlor. Facebook and YouTube have yet to gush profits - a fact that is the talk of Silicon Valley.
Yet here I am again, in July 2008, listening to yet another boyish entrepreneur discuss a quirky, compelling - and nearly revenue-less - startup. Only in the tech business are companies born with neither a clear reason for being nor a clue as to how they'll produce profits. And what do Twitterers twitter about? Is the G20 summit a turning point for Twitter? :: Kate Day. All the world's atwitter.
Or so it has seemed over the last few months anyway. But with the G20, finally Twitter has shifted from being the story to becoming a tool with which to tell the story. Twitterfall on the wall in the Telegraph newsroom (Photo: Kate Day) It could be argued that this shift began with the Hudson plane crash but very quickly the "Twitter angle", that the news had broken in a tweet, was everywhere. Suddenly a rash of stories cropped up about news being broken on twitter, not to mention great excitement every time Stephen Fry so much as sneezed.
As the G20 protests spread through the City, Twitter is finally being widely recognised as a great way to follow events as they unfold. Here at the Telegraph we are pulling tweets into our G20 page (with some help from Twitterfall). And of course you can follow tweets pouring in about the G20 at Twitter Search. Twestival.com. Little Twit - Short Twitter Names. + New .COMs $7.99/yr plus 18 cents/yr ICANN fee. Discount based on new one-year registration prices as of 1/27/2012 with sale price reflected in your shopping cart at checkout. Discount applies to new registrations and renewals and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or promotion. Domains purchased through this offer will renew at regular price after the initial term has expired. Offer ends May 31, 2012 5:00 pm (MST). † Good for one 1-year registration of any available .COM, .US, .BIZ, .INFO, .NET or .ORG ‡ Annual discounts available on NEW purchases only. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 ICANN-accredited domain name registrar for .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ and .US domain extensions.
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I had NDTV from New Delhi in one browser window; CNN/IBN streaming in another. And, of course, I was closely following the conversation on Twitter. In the process, I learned some new Twitter tricks to share with you here. 1. Advanced Search Leads to Eyewitnesses With a huge volume of tweets adopting #mumbai as a hashtag, it was hard to sift the wheat from the chaff–or as my tech friends would say, the noise to signal ratio was way too high. Many people were tweeting and retweeting news reports, some accurate, some dubious. Go to — now, see the small type to the right of the Search button that says Advanced Search?
I used this feature to search for Twitter users located within 15 km of Mumbai. #mumbai near:Mumbai within:15km 3. TwitterBreak.com. E | Hello, my name is E and I am the future of social networking. Twitter Is Down… The Street. Office Snapshots has posted a picture of the clever sign hanging on the door of Twitter’s old office. The sign was posted by the office’s current inhabitants, customer service startup Get Satisfaction. Twitter switched offices in early July, and the move seems to have done them well. Since then the service has been unusually stable, with relatively few periods of downtime – though this may be on account of the functionality that seems to be slowly disappearing. Update: Get Satisfaction’s Thor Muller comments that in celebration of Twitter’s increased reliability, the sign has been updated: Credit: monstro Thanks to Jason Moser for the tip.