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HootSuite Goes Freemium – Others to Follow?

Yesterday, Web-based Twitter client Hootsuite announced that they are adopting a “freemium” model. The idea is that, though most of their clients will still use the free version of their product, they would offer paid-only features targeted at users with greater needs.

Specifically, HootSuite offered a series of professional plans that offer features such as additional RSS feeds to automatically update via your social networks, team members to help manage accounts and additional statistics.

According to their announcement, the expect that some 95% off all HootSuite users will remain with their free level account, this based on a recent survey they gave to their current users and analysis of their usage statistics, but clearly are hoping to turn more their users into paying customers.

Twitter users, however, have become accustomed to getting their services, whether on or off Twitter’s site, for free. So now that a major Twitter client has gone freemium, will Twitter users be willing to pay? HootSuite is gambling that they will.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on August 12th, 2010 and filed under Social Networking
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Pluggio: Workflow-Based Tweeting

There’s been a lot of talk over the past few days about Twitter developers merely “filling holes” in Twitter and not really building anything new. The idea being that most of the apps created for Twitter merely fixed problems or inefficiencies in Twitter, not create something truly new.

This debate comes as Twitter has released its first official app, thus competing with the developer ecosystem it has created, and purchased the popular iPhone client Tweetie. It also comes ahead of Twitter’s first conference for developers, Chirp.

With this context in mind, I set out to try and find a Twitter application that was doing more than merely “filling holes”. Though some, like Seesmic, do a great job integrating other social networks, I was looking for a more unique and powerful Twitter experience, something I found with Pluggio.

Though far from perfect, Pluggio does much more than fix Twitter’s shortcomings and, instead, manages to create an entire workflow system around Twitter that makes it easy to manage nearly every aspect of your Tweeting life. Though it isn’t for every Twitter user, it may be for you depending on your Tweeting style.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on April 15th, 2010 and filed under Social Networking
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Get Backlinks from Every Tweet

I was looking at where my blog traffic comes from and I’ve noticed something interesting. Google is not the top referrer to my blog. My top referrer is actually Flickr which would make sense because, with my Photo-A-Day project, I post to Flickr every single day. With each uploaded photo I add a link from Flickr to my blog. That is something I do manually and it can take some time on …

Written by BenSpark from BenSpark.com
Posted on February 15th, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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My 5 Favorite Social Media Tools for 2009

By the time everyone reads this 2009 will be behind us and 2010 in our faces. So, I wanted to end it on a personal note sharing my top 5 favorite social media tools for 2009. These are also very useful tools that I feel everyone should at least give a try if you haven’t already. These are in no particular …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on January 1st, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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Google Chrome Twitter Extensions: Kutano vs Chromed Bird

Now that the Google Chrome browser is soon to come out with their long-awaited extensions, it will be much easier to keep up with your Twitter account while using it. Right now there are currently two Twitter extensions that can be used if you’re on the …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on December 12th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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HootSuite on the iPhone

Twitter and the iPhone have always been a natural combination. Twitter’s mobile-friendly 140 character limit, robust API and mobile-centric features have, overall, meshed well Apples flagship cellphone.

The presence of Twitter on the iPhone was strong enough for Time Magazine to name Tweetie 2 the number one iPhone app of 2009, ahead of both Yelp and SlingPlayer.

Despite this, crossovers between desktop applications and iPhone ones have not always worked out the best. Tweetdeck, the most popular desktop client, has struggled with bugs and crashes in its iPhone iteration. So many that, at one point, Apple pulled the product from its store.

However Hootsuite is hoping to break that curse. Already a powerful Web-based Twitter client, Hootsuite just launched its new iPhone client, which is currently the number one paid social networking app in the U.S.

But how is it and is it worth the two dollars? Here’s a brief rundown of the app so you can decide for yourself.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on December 10th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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The Time-Strapped Blogger’s Guide to Self-Promotion

Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream.

Photo by Jen Dixon

After all, you’re not …

Written by Patricia Mayo from copyhypnotist
Posted on December 7th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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