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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Twitter: No Ads for You
For far too long, Twitter ignored the financial benefits of advertising. Instead, it burned through a lot of management cycles and venture capital exploring a variety of business models such as premium services for businesses, and analytics. Finally, Twitter relented on advertising with the introduction of Promoted Tweets, which are relevant and contextual ads inserted [...]
TwerpScan: Drilling Down on Followers & Friends
As you spend more time on Twitter and gain more friends and followers, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of who’s who. Into the fray steps TwerpScan, which bills itself as a Twitter contact management site. To that end, TwerpScan offers tools that let you see your followers and who’s following you. To get [...]
Want More Details Than Just Profile Info?
Are you looking for more information about someone on Twitter other than the details in their profile? If so, check out Foller.me, which provides someone’s Twitter profile, a tag cloud of their recent tweets, hashtags they may have used, and a map showing where their followers are located.
Create an RSS Feed for Twitter Favorites
The good thing about Twitter is the steady stream of new ideas, thoughts, content and online suggestions served up by other people. The bad thing is it can be difficult to keep up. A solution is using Twitter’s “favorite” feature as a way to bookmark items that can be viewed later. One of the challenges, [...]
Get Plugged in with Pluggio
I have tried a lot Twitter publishing tools – online services and desktop software. The biggest problem is while most of them are better than Twitter.com, they fail to match up well against Tweetdeck or Seesmic, which have my two go-to tools. That said, an interesting new player is Pluggio, an online Twitter publishing tool [...]
What Tweets Work..And What Don’t