I use Twitter to do a number of things. I tweet about interesting articles I find online. I tweet about the weather when we have sever storms like last night’s tornadoes. I tweet about silly things, serious things, things of relevance to myself and my followers. The fact is I tweet about a lot of different things. Recently, there was a study done and published on eMarketer …
If you notice this morning that your follower count on Twitter dropped dramatically, don’t be alarmed. It is just Twitter cracking down on spam accounts and bots that automatically follow people. So chances are those weren’t real people anyway.
The drop is a big topic on Twiitter (search for “spam”). This isn’t the first time Twitter has purged spam accounts. What is alarming, however, is that some people affected are complaining …
So many of us use social media to distinguish ourselves from the rest. We all do the same things, yet many of us are more successful than others. In professional sports, the same is true. In baseball, everyone goes to the plate, uses the same bats and balls, and tries to outdo their competitors. There are metrics put in place that allow the public to determine who are the most …
On SuperFan, you will find an interesting solution that allows you to become a fan of the widest assortment of matters you can imagine. These things are called Faves on the site, and are arranged in ten major groups such as music, tv/movies, celebrities, and sports, as well as brands, schools, books and games, in addition to politics and places. SuperFan is different to many sites due …
Managing profiles and accounts across multiple social media platforms can be a daunting effort. How do fans, friends and others know where you share the most? Are you actually a blogging junkie, or perhaps you’re Twitter addicted? GeekChart is a pretty cool tool to discover the answer to these questions. It’s also a way to share the results with all of your friends and your network.
LinkedIn is a great tool and service, if you know how to properly use it. It seems simple to find people from your email accounts, search for specific names and even those with specific skills. But there is so much more to LinkedIn that can assist in getting the most out of it. Here are some best practices to ensure that you get the most out of LinkedIn, that others can find you and that you can help others.
People around the world do trust the media, but to varying degrees. According to TNS, the good news, for Internet content producers, is that people now trust the information they get from online news—roughly to the same degree as news from television and information from friends. On a global basis, the most trusted information source was friends, with 42% of those surveyed saying that they trusted word-of-mouth recommendations. About an equal number trusted TV news (41%), online news (40%) and newspapers (39%).
ReportingOn.com is a simple way for journalists to update their peers on the stories they’re working on right now. Journalists can tag 140-character-or-less updates with the beat they are on, and find peers reporting on similar beats to make connections. This way they can introduce themselves to potential mentors, or discover an unsung heroes in their field.
With all the fuss over the growth of Twitter let us not forget that there is a little site called Facebook that in the US, has still been under-represented compared to other countries in terms of it’s importance. In the US, visits to social networking websites increased 4% in February 2009 vs. February 2008 among a custom category of 55 of the top properties, while visits decreased 1% compared with January 2009 among those sites, according to data from Hitwise (via MarketingCharts).
Over one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter or similar services to share updates about themselves or view updates about others. What’s more, those who use Twitter have a greater affinity for mobile devices, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via MarketingCharts).
Wireless internet users also are more likely to be users of Twitter and other status updating services. 14% of users who access the internet wirelessly via a laptop, handheld or cell phone have used Twitter or the like, compared with 6% of users who go online but do not do so wirelessly.
All the social media sites we love (or hate) to use including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc., enable us to interact with people we know well and those we have never met. My rule is generally to allow anyone I have met into my Facebook world, and those I have not are reserved for LinkedIn. With so many people to keep updated and in touch with, both those you know and those you don’t, these sites can often feel like the only lifeline to reach them. They can also be a way to make connections with new customers, influencers and others who can help your business grow, outside of your known network. Too often people make simple mistakes that harm their reputations, rather than helping.
So Microsoft bought into Facebook a while back, but has not really been able to realize significant value yet other than access to representing their sales to the agency market. Now, it seems some of Microsoft’s marketing budget is going to help Twitter get itself into the advertising game.
Twitter rolled out a new program titled ExecTweets. The program presents on a page, Tweets collected from various executives.
So I have been attending the IN09 (The Interactive Exchange) conference put on by Interactive Ontario for the past two days. Last year the conference was named ICE08, however for some reason (which I cannot disclose, LOL) they changed the name. I like it better now in any event. So, here are some highlights from day 1 of my adventures through the conference:
Articles of Interest