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LinkedIn Works With Twitter

2009-11-10T16:24:00.005-05:00

LinkedIn announced today on their new partnership with Twitter. With this new partnership we get two new ways to integrate Twitter with LinkedIn. The first is LinkedIn will now allow you to tweet your LinkedIn status to Twitter. The second way, Twitter will now allow you to post your tweets from Twitter to LinkedIn. This new feature is being rolled out over the next couple of days and is

Using Twibbon for Branding

2009-11-04T08:15:00.000-05:00

I was doing a little research today and stumbled across the Search Mojo Twibbon page. A light bulb went off when I reached the page. Twibbon is not only a service to support a cause, but can be used for company branding. Search Mojo created their own Twibbon using their company logo and had their employees use the Twibbon for branding purposes. If you brand is not Starbucks or T-Mobile, you can

Twitter Threaded Conversations

2009-11-03T18:31:00.007-05:00

I ventured over to the Twitter search page today and noticed that a new featured pop up, Threaded Conversations. Twitter search now provides the ability to show and hide the conversation thread. I really like this feature and I wish they would bring this to the regular Twitter profile. Here is a quick screen shot of the feature.Here is a screen shot of the conversation in full.

Twitter Stats Pew / Internet Fall 2009

2009-10-23T10:55:00.002-05:00

Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new study, Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009. The study provides some interesting facts about Twitter users.Online U.S. adults using Twitter or another service to share updates1 in 5 (19%)Online adults that have said they have used Twitter or another status update service:33% - 18 to 29 yrs old22% - 30 to 49 yrs old9% - 50 to 64 yrs old4% - 65

Twitter List Beta Now Live

2009-10-21T20:33:00.009-05:00

Twitter has started to roll out Twitter Lists. A Twitter List allows you to group people into lists. You can set these Twitter Lists to private or public and each list sits on its own domain (i.e. http://twitter.com/brentnau/smtusa#list). Here are some additional screenshots.You will now see the number of lists you have been added to on your public facing profile.You now have link to each of your

TwitterFeed Goes Real Time

2009-10-21T07:17:00.004-05:00

TwitterFeed is a tool that allows you to automatically post your blog to your Twitter account. I have been using it for several of my clients over the past year or so to publish their feeds to their Twitter accounts. It has had some relability issues, but TwitterFeed just announced that they have implemented a new architecture designed to handle the large number of posts they publish on a daily

Twitter Implements Duplicate Post Filter

2009-10-15T07:52:00.004-05:00

Twitter recently implemented a new filter that prevents you from creating duplicate posts. TechCruch first reported it in their Cleaning Up the Stream; Twitter Kills Duplicate Tweets. It looks to be a 24 hour filter that will prevents the individual from reposting an exact copy of one of their previous Tweets. When this happens Twitter deletes the new message and displays a "Duplicate Text"

Tweleted - Find Deleted Tweets

2009-10-07T20:29:00.003-05:00

A co-worker and myself got into a whole discussion about how people are leaving a digital footprint that you can never delete. He mentioned to me that even if you "deleted" a tweet that others can still find it on the Internet. He then proceeded to show me some of his old tweets that he "deleted" on a site called Tweleted. Tweleted scans the last couple of hundred tweets for a particular user

Fantar - Brand Your Twitter Avatar

2009-09-30T18:22:00.004-05:00

Tweetphoto launched a new service called Fantar. Fantar is "fan + avatar". Brands can create fantars for users to update their current Twitter avatar with a branded message or logo. Now the service only offers four categories of brands right now: Charity, Internet, Music, and Sports. There are a total of 12 brands participating in this service currently. I expect more brands will jump on board.

Tweetboard - A Twitter Sidewiki

2009-09-28T18:40:00.004-05:00

The Twitter application, Tweetboard, acts as a "Twitter-power forum" for your web site. I like to equate it to the new Google sidewiki. It is a sidebar tab that flies out to display your site's latest tweets and then proceeds to thread any conversations. Tweetboard also provides the ability to post a comments to the forum as well as notify the visitor of any new Tweets since their last visit to

Topify - Twitter Email Notifications

2009-09-23T18:21:00.009-05:00

I came across Topify which notifies you via email when someone follows you or direct messages you through Twitter. The email notification provides some nice insight into those that start to follow you.Topify lets you know if you are already following that Twit. If not, you just hit the reply button in your email application and you start to instantly follow that person. The Topify email

Twitter Group Lists - Create, Manage, and Share

2009-09-18T07:21:00.003-05:00

I came across this interesting site called TweepML. TweepML allows you to create, manage, and share Twitter group lists. This service provides the ability to easily create a Twitter group by either searching on a specific website that has Twitter user names listed on it or allows you to manually enter a list of Twitter users. You then can manage the list, share the list or even embed the listing

Twitter Click Tracking Being Implemented

2009-09-04T11:14:00.005-05:00

Noticing today that Twitter has implemented click tracking on all links. I think this is part of their bigger plans for business accounts, but could also lead to some type of tracking report for all accounts. You will not notice the tracking link until after you click on a link, but go back and hover over the link and you will see the tracking URL. Here is an example:/link_click_count?url=http%3A

MegaTweet - SuperTweet on Steroids

2009-08-27T20:53:00.002-05:00

Once again @pageoneresults has out did himself. He originally brought us the SuperTweet. Now we have the MegaTweet, a concatenated SMS. A concatenated SMS can consist of up to 255 separate SMS messages. Here is a screenshot with the explanation.

Brand Your Tweets - What Every Brand Manager Needs To Do

2009-08-20T18:36:00.011-05:00

One of the first steps to brand your Tweets is to use a custom URL shortener. Coke is a great example of how they created their own branded URL shortner, http://cokeurl.com/. This reinforces their brand, gives credibility to the shorten URL, and ensures that they have no broken links if a URL shortening service goes belly up (read about tr.im). There are several resources to find a URL shortening

FavTwit - Announce Your Favorite Twitter User

2009-08-20T18:27:00.003-05:00

Just launched is a new Twitter Application that asks the question “Who’s your Favtwit?” FavTwit allows users to announce who their favorite twitter user is. People can do this at the Favtwit website or by direct messaging Favtwit.Dennis Dornon, the creator of FavTwit, calls it a "Silly Twitter App”Although he calls it a "Silly Twitter App" I do see a couple benefits of such an application:First,

Characteristics of the Top 5% Most Active Users on Twitter

2009-08-05T19:35:00.004-05:00

I came across an interesting Twitter study, Inside Twitter, by Sysomos. The study looked at over 11.5 million Twitter accounts. Since this study found that 5% of users accounted for 75% of all Tweets, Sysomos went a step further and looked at the characteristics of the top 5% of active users on Twitter.The biggest finding in the new study, An In-Depth Look at the 5% of Most Active Users, is that

Cotags – Signature Tags For Co-Tweeting

2009-07-28T20:35:00.003-05:00

I was just introduced to two new Twitter terms, “cotags” and “co-tweeting”. Let me first explain what “co-tweeting” means. Co-tweeting is when you have more than one person montior and respond within a single Twitter account. It looks to be derived from CoTweets.com, a Twitter platform being used by companies to engage their customers through Twitter. So the term cotags refers to the way you

When Is the Best Time to Tweet?

2009-06-11T07:23:00.003-05:00

The recent "State of the Twittersphere" report had some interesting data to report this month. The report provided data points for the distribution of Tweets-per-Hour and Tweets-per-Day. They found that business hours during the business week in the US are the most popular. Their graph shows Tweet volumes spike between 9am -10am, 3pm-5pm, and 11pm-12pm. The most activity occurs at 11pm. The data

Why You Need to Modify Your @ Reply

2009-05-29T15:14:00.005-05:00

On May 11 Twitter removed the ability to see @ replies from your Followers to another Follower that you do not currently follow (confused?). If I followed @someone and @someone replied to @sometwo I will no longer receive the Tweet from @someone in my Twitter stream since I myself do not follow @sometwo. There was quite an uproar about the removal of this reply setting. It was a great way to find

Twitter Squatter - How To Handle a Sqwitter

2009-05-05T19:09:00.006-05:00

I was recently asked about how to obtain a Twitter account that uses a company name as their Twitter user name. A Twitter Squatter or Squitter, can be handle through several steps, but the Twitter Squatter account needs to meet certain criteria laid out by Twitter's Terms of Service and Rules.Attempting to sell or extort other forms of payment in exchange for user names will result in account

Twitter Follower - Auto Follow Your Way To The Top

2009-04-30T09:37:00.004-05:00

Well I am not a big fan of auto following on Twitter, but @johnchow released a new free tool called Twitter Follower. The tool allows you to join a list of Twits who have auto follow enabled for their accounts. You can easily go down the current list of Twits and start following them right from the Twitter Follow site. Twitter Follow also provides another free tool to mass un-follow those who are

Twitter Local Directory List

2009-04-16T05:54:00.011-05:00

Even though Twitter allows people to network with other people from around the globe, there is an emerging demand for local networking. While local social networking on Twitter is starting to pickup steam I did some quick research in locating Local Twitter Directories.GeoFollow is a location based Twitter directory that allows users to search by city, state, zip, country, tag, name, username, or

TwitterSplit.com - Send External Links to Your Site

2009-04-07T07:36:00.000-05:00

Twittersplit is a cool tool I found on BirdsAll Social Media. Twittersplit allows you to send external links to your own URL. Yes, send external links to your own domain. Twittersplit requires that you install their script to do this. Basically it auto-frames every link you post to Twitter. Here is their example, http://budurl.com/flyingman.This can be a really good tool for branding purposes.