8 digital pros worth following on Twitter Here's a confession about Twitter: I follow, but I do not tweet. That is, I regularly read the bite-sized blurbs that have become so ubiquitous these days, but I rarely contribute anything of my own to the Twitter community. I do this because Twitter is a fantastic information filter for those looking to stay informed, even if its strength as a marketing tool is still debatable. The 140-character limit may not seem like much, but it's usually enough to deliver a headline and the slant of the tweeter (that is, why it was worth tweeting in the first place). I read my morning Twitter right after I read my morning Facebook, and right before I scan my RSS feeds, emails, and check the homepage of my local newspaper. Why do I mention this? I usually get a blank stare. So who's worth following? Building your "follow" list is always a work in progress, but the names below are certainly a good starting place for anyone working in digital. Fred Wilson Venture capitalist Followers: > 28,000
Top 5 Ways To Optimize your Twitter Network | Tech N’ Marketing Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by hilzfuld in Web inShare3 As you know, I am a big believer in Twitter and its potential as the future of online communication. You should also know that Twitter can help you achieve a lot of your goals, but contrary to popular belief, Twitter is not a magical solution. One cannot join Twitter and expect immediate results without investing substantial amounts of time building up your network. Let me answer that question with one golden rule of how NOT to get more followers! The people who use Twitter properly, to communicate with others while contributing quality content, are not going to be using these services to find people to follow! OK, so no follower services, then how DO you build your network effectively? Here are 5 SEO principles you should use while Tweeting if you want to see the best results: 1: Relevant Titles: Like I have said on many occasions, you need to define yourself and what you are presenting, before even sending out your first tweet. -Hillel
20 Ways To Tweet: For Companies, Corporations & Small Businesses Twitter Essentials - The 70 Things to Know In our continuing pursuit to mine Twitter for all of its pulp, we've identified 70 terms, web and desktop applications, we find particularly useful or interesting at Agent Wildfire. Thanks to full team at Agent Wildfire, our Twitter maven Karin Abramova in particular and various people online who provided their Twisdom. The Basics - Replies & DMs - Follows - Retweets - DMs - Tweetups - Hashtags - FollowFridays Shortening Urls - tinyurl - ow.ly - tr.im - is.gd Searching Posts - search.twitter.com - Tweetscan - Tweefind Finding Influencers - WhoShouldIFollow - Twannabe - Twitterholic - Mr. Breaking News - Twitscoop - Retweetist - Twitturly - Summize Mapping Trends - Twist Dashboard/Client - Tweetdeck - Spaz - Tweetie - Seesmic Local - twitterlocal - twitterwhere - Twinkle Fielding Polls - twitdaddy - twtpoll Tracking Tweets - tr.im - Hootsuite - Monitter - Tweetstats Multiple Accounts - Twhirl - Mattinator - TwitterFox - Hootsuite Groups - Tweetworks - Twibes Linking Media - twitpic - Twiddeo Using Mobile Twitter - Twitterberry - Ubertwitter Fun
8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information. Enter Twitter Analytics, Twitter Analysis, or simply just Analytwits (in the tradition of Twitter slang). Besides Twitter Search, the following 8 Analytwits are some of the more useful web applications to analyze Twitter streams. 8 Great Tools for Social (Twit)telligence TWITALYZER provides activities analysis of any Twitter user, based on social media success yardsticks. MICROPLAZA offers an interesting way to make sense of your Twitter streams. TWIST offers trends of keywords or product name, based what Twitter users are tweeting about.
Ten Twitter Mythconceptions | Technologizer Poor Twitter! It may be the hottest service on the Web, but it’s also profoundly misunderstood. Lots of people cheerfully admit they don’t get it. Others emphatically believe things about it that aren’t true. I encounter confusion over Twitter every day, especially in the real world as I chat with folks who have either never used it, or have tried it and then walked away. I don’t claim to understand everything there is to understand about Twitter. Mythconception #1: Twitter is something utterly new. Reality: I’m not sure if I’ve convinced a single soul of this, but I stubbornly maintain that Twitter is a whole lot like the CompuServe forums that were once the dominant hub for online discussion–it’s just tweets are faster, shorter, and more flexible. Mythconception #2: The fact that some people tweet about what they ate for breakfast is a sign that Twitter is shallow. Mythconception #3: People who tweet what they had for breakfast are wasting your time.
Fresh Inspiration From 10 New Twitter-centric Websites Out This Week | Inspired Magazine Twitter is so big that every day a new set of apps is popping up on the interwebs. We try to keep up and make a selection of the best Twitter apps out this week. Enjoy! Bubble Tweet Add a Video To Your Twitter Page In Seconds with BubbleTweet. Scoopler Real time search engine. TwtJobs Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama. adf.ly Monetizing short URLs by showing ads before the original content. daily RT The real Digg for Twitter, strong competition for TweetMeme . Twittl The other new DIGG for Twiter. Twitter Job Search The first social media job search engine. Tweerrific Daily Twitter apps, codes, and widgets. What is WPSumo? WPSumo is a ridiculously feature rich WordPress framework. We use it on InspiredM because it makes blogging easier, by giving us an unparalleled degree of flexibility and focus. It doesn't matter if you're just starting with WordPress or you're an experienced user.
Marketing Your Business With Twitter @ Small Business Tech This post is a bit of a change from my usual discussion of Apple technology, but bear with me on this one. I’ve been a member (and a largescale user as well) of the extremely popular micro-blogging site Twitter for over a year now. In that time I have enormously expanded my audience and discovered and discussed with many intelligent and fun people through the service, but Twitter is not just for discussion and merely answering “What Are You Doing?” – Twitter has many more possibilities and capabilities that everyone can utilize to market their brand and their business. First, Twitter is community based, and this means if the community likes what they see they can share (“Re-tweet”) your content with their friends. To demonstrate the so-called “Twitter effect”, I have screenshots of 2 different pieces of artwork I submitted yesterday around the same time to my DeviantART page.