Making Money Using Twitter
October 31, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Making Money Using Twitter – with Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters.
Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.
Here’s How Making Money Using Twitter with Sponsored Tweets Works – All you need is a Twitter account to get started.
Sponsored Tweets is a whitelisted Twitter application and uses your Twitter credentials to create an account. Read more
Twitter Warns of New Phishing Scam
October 30, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
In a previous article entitled “Phishing Scam Steals Twitter Passwords” we reported that a phishing scam is circulating on Twitter that aims to steal users’ log-in credentials and then forward scam messages to all their friends in the hope of tricking them too.
Phishing, in computer security terminology, is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames and passwords.
Now, through its Spam Watch account, Twitter Warns of New Phishing Scam: “We’ve seen a few phishing attempts today; if you’ve received a strange DM and it takes you to a Twitter login page, don’t do it!”
Twitter Lists
October 30, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Lists – In a previous articles we wrote that Twitter had just announced on its blog, a new feature that they are testing. It is simply called ‘Lists’.
In a subsequent blog post we stated that Twitter has just rolled out its new Lists feature to a large portion of its user base.
It appears that Twitter is initially rolling out Twitter lists to members with at least 1,000 followers. So if you already have Twitter Lists enabled you need to start thinking about list categories to place your many followers. Here are some suggestions for creating your lists: Read more
Marketing Small Businesses With Twitter
October 30, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Marketing Small Businesses With Twitter – I have just read an interesting article on the SitePoint blog entitled “How to Use Twitter for Customer Service”.
The article focuses on The Benefits of Customer Service in Social Media: “There are so many positive benefits that can be gained from a successful customer service-oriented presence on Twitter.” and…
How to Provide Excellent Customer Service through Twitter: “In order to provide customer service on Twitter, you need to know what people are saying about you, about their needs and about the industry in which you work. This can be easily accomplished by routinely checking various resources.” Read more
Twitter’s Business Model
October 28, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter’s Business Model: Numerous commentators in the Twitterverse regularly comment on and criticise Twitter for a lack of both not generating revenues and a business model.
But according to an interesting article in Harvard Business entitled Twitter’s Business Model: Brilliant or Non-Existent? “there is a difference between not generating income and lack of a business model.” Read more
Google Social Search Goes Live
October 28, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 2 Comments
Google Social Search Goes Live – Google has rolled out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle.
This new feature allows users to include information from other social networks, such as Twitter, and blogs in their search results.
According to Google’s blog “Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn’t always very easy to find in one simple place.” Read more
Twitter Alerts
October 26, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Alerts – Google Alerts is a service offered by Google which notifies its users by email (or as a feed) about the latest web and news latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Now, if you would like to be kept up to date on what’s being said on Twitter about a particular subject but don’t want to search for it manually, a string of new Twitter applications allow you to Track Twitter Searches and Trends and create your own Twitter Alerts with features that include: Read more
Twitter’s Vision For The Future
October 23, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Photo: GETTY – Twitter’s co-founder, Evan Williams, talked exclusively to the Daily Telegraph about Twitter’s Vision For The Future, the future of online search and his plans for improving the micro-blogging platform.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Evan Williams doesn’t often give interviews. He usually leaves that to Biz Stone, his colleague and Twitter’s co-founder. Apparently, they found this out the hard way as they chased him down the stairs at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco earlier this week. Read more
The Complete Guide to Twitter
October 21, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
I recently came across The Complete Guide to Twitter an excellent PDF document which I would like to share with you.
There are many Twitter guides floating around in the Twitterverse, both free and for sale. Some are cheap and some are expensive.
However, because Twitter has evolved and continues to evolve, none of the previously available Twitter guides are either fully comprehensive or complete. And in each new guide you will undoubtedly find a tip or two not available elsewhere. So I make it a point of reading as many as I can. Read more
Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List
October 21, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List – Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media’s John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 in San Francisco late Tuesday.
In a lengthy and broad ranging discussion covering a lot of interesting topics Evan Williams says Twitter traffic may have plateaued, but only temporarily but said that they think they have new features coming out that will change that.
According to an article in TechCrunch.com, the most interesting bit came at the end when conference founder Tim O’Reilly asked a question from the audience. O’Reilly asked if it was time to retire the Suggested User List (SUL) with the new Twitter Lists feature coming? Williams made it very clear that he absolutely agrees that it’s time. When Lists comes out and are working properly, they plan to kill the SUL, Williams says.
You can click on Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List to read the full TechCrunch article.
