If you are new to Twitter, you may scratch your head with all of the #followfriday tweets. This is an organic tradition where you list the people that you enjoy following and want to share with others.
You can track everyone’s suggestions, by using this Twitter search. In addition, you can make the search more sophisticated [...]
social media will rule supreme as the top referrer of the web.
He titled the keynote, “Twitter As A Tool For Social Media: Nobodies are the new Somebody.” While 80% of the audience at SES NY admitted to be “twittering” while Guy was talking, his keynote read like an intro to Twitter, but that is not to say that it was not without a few new nifty tools.
140 characters. That’s all you get. Accept a few terms–no bells and whistles, no groups, no pokes, no pictures. In 140 characters you can talk about walking your dog, report live accounts of breaking news, or link to relevant information. Very basic, right?
Not exactly. I have been on Twitter since April, and it is interesting [...]
Paul Boutin’s recent Wired article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, suggests that the blogosphere is too crowded for a lone blogger to make a difference, and it it time to fold up shop on blogging:
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater [...]
According to my recent poll, it looks like Twitter is the most popular social tool. Although the respondents were a fairly limited set (only 10 because I am lame and no one really wants to take my polls), here are the results:
50% Twitter
40% Facebook
10% LinkedIn
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Last night, I went to the Tennessee Valley Fair last night and was sending twitter updates through Twinkle, only Twinkle wasn’t working. Boo. Anyway, here they are for your pleasure:
At Tennessee Valley Fair. Truly an E. TN experience. Gotta run best mullet starting in five.
The smoking policy at the fair is: smoke ‘em if [...]
As Category 4 Gustav clips Cuba and tracks towards New Orleans, people from all over are sharing stories about the brewing storm on Twitter. If you load this page, by the time you read the first tweet you will see 10 new tweets. CNN is using the live feed to report information online with Rich [...]
I have been talking about the use of Twitter in business lately. Being a lazy ass twitter user for a few years, I know there is power in the ridiculously short conversation system, but I just don’t know what it is. One of the best uses that I have seen is with Twinkle (an iPhone [...]