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Monthly Archives: February 2009
TweetDeck or Twhirl…or Both?
One of the more interesting “races” within the Twitter ecosystem system has been third-party software clients battling to supplant Twitter.com as the place where Twitters users live and breath. The two leading contenders are TweetDeck and Twhirl. For anyone who hasn’t used them or people who use them and want some more insight, check out [...]
How to Follow 70K People
Back in the day when people read blogs, Robert Scoble claimed to be the king of consumption by reading more than 700 blogs/day. From a marketing perspective, it was a savvy move because it cemented his status as someone who was all over blogging and blogs at a time when the platform was emerging into [...]
Should You Follow Everyone Who Follows You?
I saw this Tweet that caught my attention today: Hello to all the new followers. Send me an @ message and I’ll follow back. Welcome! Personally, I don’t believe in the idea of automatically following everyone who follows you. For one, it doesn’t mean anything when it’s a default rather than something you think about [...]
Get a Free Background Image
Have you ever visited someone’s Twitter page and discovered they had a really cool background image? Ever wonder how you could get one yourself? If you fall into this camp, check out FreeTwitterDesigner.com, which makes it easy to create custom-made background images. FTD is user-friendly, has a wide variety of options to apply text, images [...]
More Than One Twitter Account?
I attended PodCamp Toronto on Saturday, including a session in which the presenter, Mathew Ingram, talked about how he uses his Twitter account for personal and business purposes. For someone like Mathew, who’s using Twitter and his blog to build an online personal brand, combining personal and business within a single Twitter account works because [...]
How Do People Tweet?