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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Twitter vs. the Twitter Community
As Twitter starts to launch new services, including premium services, a growing reality is it will start going head-to-head against developers who have done all kinds of creative things with Twitter’s API over the past couple of years to create hundreds of cool, useful and entertaining services. While all this development happened, Twitter stood on [...]
Five Ways to Attract Twitter Followers
Last week, we talked about how to get unfollowed; today, let’s look at how to get followed. Here are some of the basics: 1. Provide valuable or interesting content, opinion or ideas. Creating a tweet with a link to a good blog post or newspaper/magazine article will score you points from potential followers. The same [...]
How to Get Unfollowed 101
It’s great to have a lot of followers on Twitter because it means other people are interested in what you’re thinking or doing. At the same time, it’s also important to recognize it’s also pretty easy to get unfollowed, particularly if you do some of the following: 1. Broadcast your location. Why anyone really needs [...]
Four Alternatives to Twitter.com
As Twitter has become more popular, the number of people using Twitter.com to write and read tweets has declined as more publishing tools and services has flourished. According to a recent report by Sysomos, Twitter.com’s market share has dropped from 47% to 40% over the past five months. For people looking for alternatives beyond obvious [...]
Do Dell’s Twitter Sales Really Matter?
Earlier this week, there was a lot of excitement when Dell provided an update about its sales through Twitter. Over the past two years or so, Dell has now sold $6.5-million by providing links to purchase computers and other products. While $6.5-million is a big number, it’s a tiny number in the schemes of things [...]
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