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5 Practical Things You Can Do with Twitter
Blogging, Making Money, Social Media Yesterday, Kevin announced the launch of Blogging Tips first WordPress plugin, Twitter User, which lets users integrate their Twitter username with their profile information in WordPress and display a link to their Twitter account in the footer of every post (or elsewhere in the template). However, many, including those who currently use Twitter, have wondered just how useful the service really is. Though there is a lot being said by ...
Continue readingTwitter Improves Replies, Saving You Time
Social Media Twitter changed its Replies section overnight, and it’s a great improvement for the microblogging site. Until now, clicking on your Replies section only gave you tweets from other users that have written @username at the very beginning of their tweet. The problem with this? You miss out on all the @reply tweets that don’t start with you. With the changes Twitter has made, you can now see all the tweets that have mentioned your ...
Continue reading5 Twitter Web Apps to Try
Social Media Most Twitter users, if they aren’t die-hard users of the Web interface, have their own favorite desktop client. Whether it is Tweetdeck, Twhirl, Twitterfox or something else, most people have a preferred program for getting, organizing and posting tweets. But sometimes you can’t get at your desktop client. Perhaps you’re at a friend’s house or checking Twitter at the office. You need a way to access Twitter without ...
Continue readingHow I Tripled My Twitter Followers Instantly!
Social Media I used to look at Twitter as just a place to promote my blog. I never realized its true worth and power. This all changed a few days days ago. Here is how I got my bit of Twitter success: 1) Before reading Stanly Tang’s post on how he crossed 5000 followers, I was following 25 people and was being followed by 70. After reading that post I realized that I was not at all networking. I then decided to follow people who were in niches of my ...
Continue readingThe Shrinking Microblogging Market
Blogging, Social Media This week, Google announced they were stopping development on Jaiku and releasing it as an open source project maintained by volunteers. This follows just a month after Pownce was bought by Six Apart and shut down. With the economy the way it is, it’s not surprising to see some of these services close, but it has started me thinking about what this means for the overall microblogging market.
Continue readingDo You Think MyBlogLog Has Went Downhill Since Yahoo Took It Over?
Blogging News, Social Media When I started blogging regularly I was a big fan of MyBlogLog, the social community for bloggers. I stopped using it around the time Yahoo took control over the site and removed the widget from my blogs. Many other blogs removed the widget as well though the community is still very popular. However it seems that many members believe that MyBlogLog has went downhill a little since being taken over by internet giants Yahoo. Angel Djambazov wrote ...
Continue reading5 Ways To Simplifiy Your LifeStream
Social Media Within the past 2-3 years, we have seen an explosion of sites and services spring up across the web. Don’t blame me but this time period of the web will most likely forever be known as Web 2.0. This new creativity spurt is responsible for Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Most bloggers these days, especially freelancers have accounts on one or more of these sites. If you operate your own blog, you could easily publish links to ...
Continue readingGoodbye Pownce
Social Media Pownce, the micro blogging service which was co-founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose, has been bought over by TypePad developers SixApart. It seems like SixApart bought Pownce for their talented staff, rather than Pownce itself, as Pownce will be closing down on December 15th 2008. I never used the service myself but I know it had a loyal following and had many great features including the ability to send files between users (something Twitter Users ...
Continue readingLet your readers tell their friends about your site with Social Twist
Social Media A new ‘Tell-a-Friend’ widget service has just launched called SocialTwist. There are dozens of these services around but SocialTwist makes it a little easier for visitors to recommend your blog to a friend as it lets you login to your email account, messenger, blog or Twitter account without having to leave your site. This video explains how the service works : After a quick sign up you are given code to add to your blog. ...
Continue readingFind out when someone stops following you on Twitter
Social Media Abdylas Tynyshov came across a service for Twitter users today called Qwitter. Qwitter is a simple service which tells you who has stopped following you on Twitter. All you need to do is enter your Twitter username and your email address and Qwitter will email you when someone stops following you. It also tells you what tweet they stopped following you after. If you have a lot of followers I’m sure you will find this helpful. Link : ...
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