Tag Archive: twitter

Saving Face When Your Company’s Doors Are Blown Off

If you’ve been watching the social stream the past week or so, you’ll have seen a slew of examples where a company has received a bit of a black eye in social media.
From social media darlings JetBlue to Air Canada and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, it’s been a bit of a wake-up call [...]

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Hootsuite Just Took the Lead in Third Party Twitter Apps

Third-party Twitter client Hootsuite has just released an update that takes it pretty much head and shoulders above the likes of Seesmic and Tweetdeck, amongst others.

The company had already made a substantial update recently, with the introduction of HTML5 compatibility on its Twitter client. This update included site analytics via Google, geo-search options for local [...]

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How to Sell Social Media – Twitter

One of the questions I’m most asked is how do you sell social media to your boss or client. Sure, we’re in the space and can see the numerous benefits, but how does that transfer to a wary client?
A lot of that comes down to your belief in how social can work for businesses, and [...]

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I’m a Twitter Snob? Maybe

I received an email today that said I’m a “Twitter snob”. The reasoning behind it was that my follow-to-follower ratio was skewed – I had more followers than people I follow.
Therefore, I wasn’t using Twitter correctly; instead of following everyone back that followed me (which I should be doing, according to the email), I was [...]

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Making Twitter Sticky

There are a lot of changes happening over at Twitter at the minute. They recently updated their Terms of Service and now they’re working on Project ReTweet, where sharing someone else’s tweet with your connections will be performed differently from the current user-generated method.
As is usual when wide-scale changes happen at a company (or, in [...]

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Is Twitter Killing Blog Comments?

If you’re a blogger, you’ll know how comments make a blog. They can take the original post into a whole new level altogether, with opposing views and discussions opening up some great viewpoints.
Personally, I’ve used the comments on some of my posts (and those on other blogs) as inspiration for new posts here. I’ll add [...]

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Twitter Advertising on Facebook? No Thanks

Have you signed up for Sponsored Tweets on Twitter? Or Magpie? Or TweetROI? Do you offer sponsored posts and paid reviews on your blog? If so, you might have to re-think how you share this information, thanks to a Terms of Service update from Facebook.

Why does a Facebook update affect you if you’re on Twitter, [...]

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From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. 6

Recently I wrote why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know.
1. Community. Kim Woodbridge (@kwbridge). I use WordPress for my blog as I love the whole WordPress community, [...]

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