Monthly Archives: July 2009

Martha Loves Twitter; Down on Facebook

You know it’s the beginning of the end when celebrities decide something isn’t cool anymore. Check out Martha Stewart, who has apparently lost some of her enthusiasm about Facebook. Instead, she’s found a new social media love (surprise, surprise!) – Twitter. Why Twitter? Here’s what Stewart told The Daily Beast. “First of all, you don’t [...]
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Tracking Your Tweet-Age

Once in awhile, it’s an interesting exercise to take a look at your Twitter activity to see how often you use it and when. A simple tool to review your Tweet-age is TweetStats, which shows how many updates have been posted since you started using Twitter, your activity during each day of the week, and [...]
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A Fresh Coat of Paint for Twitter.com

Looks like something’s brewing over at Twitter HQ. BoomTown has an “exclusive” that Twitter will launch a new and improved homepage next week that includes “a search box,trends and more information about how they can use Twitter. It sounds like Twitter is borrowing some UI goodness from Twitter search services such as Twazzup and Scoopler, [...]
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Tools to Manage Friends and Followers

This being #followfriday, I figured it was a good opportunity to provide a list of tools to manage your followers, the people following you, and ways to find new people to follow. Keep in mind, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of these kind of tools out there. Some of them promise thousands of new [...]
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How People Share Content

While social media gets lots of attention for connecting people – at least digitally – one of the killer apps is the ability to share content. Here’s a cool chart from AddToAny that shows the most popular tools used to share. Facebook is the most popular with 24% of total shares, while e-mail is second [...]
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Letterman Learns About “The Twitter”

It’s always entertaining to see celebrities talk about Twitter given many celebrities have a tremendous number of followers, led by that fine thespian Ashton Kutcher. On the Letterman Show yesterday, actor Kevin Spacey (who has more than 800K followers) tells David Letterman about Twitter, which David describes as “The Twitter”
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