May 19, 2012

Beating the January Blues with Free Blog Exposure

The Christmas lights have been packed away leaving the house looking bare, the indulgence of the holiday has taken its toll on your waistline and it seems as if the pounds you have put on in weight have been taken directly from your bank account, because you are flat broke. Let’s call a spade a spade, January sucks for you, but not necessarily for your blog. The mixture of having little money and more free time as everyone you know is huddled … [Read more...]

How To Get Started With Twitter In 2012 – A guide for Small Businesses ?

Twitter isn't losing any of its marketing power. Even though the service has been around for quite a number of years Twitter continues to grow. That growth should be a sign for you to either hop on board already, or improve your Twitter marketing campagins. If Twitter is a service you haven't been using to promote your small business, you are doing it wrong. 2012 is finally here and the world hasn't been destroyed (yet). So what is your small … [Read more...]

How Dell Provides Tech Support Through Twitter

Dell, JetBlue, Bank of America, Comcast, Starbucks and quite a few other companies are increasingly using social media channels like Twitter and Facebook to handle user complaints, to gather customer feedback and even for generating sales. If you (the customer) have a problem with something, you no longer have to write an email or make phone calls, just compose a tweet and one of their official representatives on Twitter will probably get back … [Read more...]

Find Twitter Users Near You!

If you enable location in Twitter, your current geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are added to your tweets. You may not want to share the exact location of your house in a public tweet for obvious reasons but if you are visiting a new place or attending a local event, these “geo-tagged” tweets can help you quickly find other Twitter users who maybe located in a particular region. Find Twitter Users Nearby There are at least … [Read more...]

Twitter Tweet Frequency on the Rise

Last month at Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference, the company announced that it was up to 105,779,710 registered users, confirming Twellow Developer Matthew Daines' estimate that they had surpassed 100 million users. Daines has now shared his latest numbers for Twitter - for the month of April. Total tweets sent went up to about 1.7 billion for the month, a 10.6% increase over March. New registrations rose to 10.5 million, or 6.75% over … [Read more...]

Embeddable Tweets Could Be Huge for Twitter, Twitterers, and Advertisers

Have you ever considered that one of the reasons YouTube became so popular is because there are YouTube videos embedded all over the web. There is a good chance that on any given day, you will see YouTube videos without ever actually visiting YouTube. It's a one reason YouTube videos go viral. It's not just on YouTube. Now it looks like Twitter is getting ready to launch embeddable tweets. Implications for Twitter YouTube is the 2nd largest … [Read more...]

Twitter Shows Embeddable Tweet Example

Update: Twitter has made an update to the post saying, "No, really. It’s very simple. Just a snippet of code you’ll be able to use to generate simple, selectable flat-HTML tweets like the one we used here." Original Article:Twitter has a post up on its Media blog today talking about the use of tweets in articles. Basically, the company appears to be completely in favor of journalists and bloggers inserting tweets to articles (even pasting … [Read more...]

Video Demos of Upcoming iPad Apps

Here are video demos of some upcoming iPad Applications that will be available on the iTunes store when it opens for business on April 3, 2010. All demos have been created using the iPad Simulator and the final product can be a little different. SmartNote (Note Taking iPad App) -- smartNote, like Microsoft OneNote, lets you take notes on your iPad, both handwritten and typed. You can also record audio with your notes. The notes can be exported … [Read more...]