Making Money Using Twitter
November 15, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
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In our blog post Making Money Using Twitter – we stated that one of the first burning questions many Twitter users have is “Can you really make money on Twitter?”
Our immediate response to this question was “The conventional wisdom from most of the gurus and experts is YES you can make money, but this will require a subtle change in your focus and mindset. Instead of focusing on “making money on Twitter” you need to focus on “making money using Twitter.”
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Top 10 Most Popular Twitter Clients
November 15, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Top 10 Most Popular Twitter Clients – SiliconANGLE Labs has just published a list of the Top 10 Most Popular Twitter Clients, based on 317 days of collection by SiliconANGLE Labs Twitter experiment.
Clients (Client/server) describe the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client (for example TweetDeck), makes a service request from another program, the server (Twitter in this case), which fulfills the request.
They are running other experiments that include discovery and navigation tools including new advertising related methods to find high quality content and people. Here is their list of the Top 10 Most Popular Twitter Clients (most popular domain platforms) for sharing on Twitter: Read more
New Spam Worm Attack Targets Twitter
November 15, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
New Spam Worm Attack Targets Twitter – According to PC World, the popular social media service Twitter is being targeted by a new attack seeking access to user accounts to send spam via direct messages.
New York-based PHP and application security specialist Chris Shiflett says that “he strongly suspects there’s a new variant of the Facebook worm Koobface at large, which searches for users’ session ID cookies. These are set on users’ computers when they tick the “Remember Me” box to stay logged onto Twitter.” Read more
How Popular Are You On Twitter?
November 14, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 2 Comments
How Popular Are You On Twitter? If you ever wanted a measure of how influential or trusted you are on Twitter, Tweetlevel is a new tool than can help you to find out.
How does it work? Tweetlevel measures your importance on Twitter by rating your influence, popularity, engagement and trust. And one of the coolest things? It compares your score with the score of some of your tweeting followers. Read more
Promoting The Topics of Your Future Tweets
November 13, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
I recently came across, Taweet, a free Twitter application which says that it is focused on Promoting The Topics of Your Future Tweets (FT) up until they occur to create buzz or to share with friends.
Also, according to the website “Taweet (beta) is a free Twitter application and social calendar that allows people and businesses to streamline promotional scheduling for events, product launches, lifecasting and more!” including: Read more
Twitter Activists You Should Be Following
November 13, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Twitter Activists You Should Be Following – The HuffingtonPost is asking whether you are “Tired of reading tweets about breakfast and balloon boys?”
And if you are, They have compiled a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following including some of the top activists on Twitter, many of whom you might not even know about.
Twitter Activists You Should Be Following: Read more
Retweeting Rollout Continues
November 11, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Retweeting Rollout Continues – Retweeting is a user-generated communication technique for reposting someone else’s message. It is similar to quoting. Currently, there is no set format for retweeting, which basically consists of reposting someone’s tweet and giving due credit.
In our previous article entitled Twitter Will Formally Incorporate Retweeting we reported that Twitter announced that it will soon implement a button that will let users automatically repost someone else’s tweet.
According to Twitter’s blog post today “Retweeting Rollout Continues…We’re continuing to rollout the new retweet feature to more users (so you might see mention of it from the folks you follow). Thanks for your patience as we get Retweet out to everyone.”
According to TechCrunch: “So what’s the verdict? Some people love it, some people hate it. It is definitely a significant change to the way people are accustomed to using Twitter, so it will undoubtedly take some time for most users to get used to.”
Twitter’s Trending Topics
November 6, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
Twitter’s Trending Topics – Twitter is experimenting with improvements to trends that will help you find more relevant tweets.
According to their blog “the number of tweets each day continues to astound Twitter and they have noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics. Trends began as a useful way to find out what’s going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation.”
“So, today we’re starting to experiment with improvements to trends that will help you find more relevant tweets. Specifically, we’re working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. The improvement won’t be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step toward unearthing more value in search and getting you more relevant results.”
Here are some quotes and comments from a recent article on this topic in TechCrunch entitled: Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets: Read more
Amazon Launches Twitter Referral Program
November 5, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · Leave a Comment
Amazon Launches Twitter Referral Program – Amazon Associates has announced the launch of a new feature called Share on Twitter which allows users to earn money from purchases coming from their tweets.
According to the Amazon website, you can access Share on Twitter from the Site Stripe (see above graphic) and post links to your Twitter account from Amazon detail pages in just two clicks. Read more
New Tweet Notifications
November 5, 2009 by Stephen S Alison · 1 Comment
New Tweet Notifications – Twitter announced late Wednesday that it is starting a limited test of a new feature that displays the number of new tweets in your timeline since you last loaded your homepage.
This features works in much the same way as the new tweet notifications on the search page for a search term. You’ll get a little notice saying “1 new tweet”. When you click the notification, the new tweets slide out in the same fashion as the search page to display the new content.
