This is a guest post from Jamie Fairbairn. The web is constantly evolving. On July 15th 2006 Twitter was officially launched and has since gone on to change the way many of us interact online. As Twitter approaches its 5th Birthday I thought it would be good to take a look at what it might… [Continue Reading]
One of the most useful features on Twitter is being withdrawn as of today – the hashtag. For anyone not on Twitter, a hashtag is the universal # symbol, and helps to separate individual conversations from the overall Twitter stream. For example, if I want to just talk with people about silly jokes, I would… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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,… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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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… [Continue Reading]