All Entries Tagged With: "tweet"
Twitter Beta-testing ‘Contributors’ Feature
Twitter announced a new feature, currently in beta, that businesses can leverage on Twitter to help make their business to consumer tweets more personal. The feature is called ‘Contributors’ and appends the contributor’s username to the byline.
Is Social Media a Fad?
In one of the most compelling videos we have seen to date, a great stack of staggering and significant statistics are linked together in a chain that documents the exponential growth of social media mathematically. The fundamental shift in the way consumers consume has been changing the dynamics of marketing and the online spend vs traditional offline spend for even the biggest marketing budgets.
Behold: The Power of Twitter Lists
So, what the heck is the big deal about Twitter’s new API that allows you to create a Twitter list?
It’s a big deal, and here are the reasons…
Creating these lists, even if you don’t post to Listorious, will start to cement you as an authority on the resourceful tweeters that other seek to find. In other words, other Twitterers look to you in order to find the people they should be following.
Build a potentially viral Twitter campaign in less than 5 minutes
We have heard of tons of strategies for Twitter promotions and marketing – and there is a new tool out there every 20 minutes to try and execute a campaign via Twitter. But here is one application so easy, and powerful, your Twitter promotion could go viral after only five minutes of setting up your promo.
Expansion and growth: Social Media & Digital Marketing Blog Now Bigger and Better
Welcome to the bigger and better Social Media and The Big W. Originally developed from an NYC-based agency blog, we have worked to mature and respond to the increased interest we have received in our content. Our bloggers, information, and resources come from real-time activity on the brand side and client side Web 2.0 environment.
Seesmic Desktop: Best Desktop Twitter Interface
There are really only two competitors in this space right now, for serious usability. Tweetdeck and Seesmic. But if you are using multiple Twitter accounts, as I am, than you can only use Seesmic. Do yourself a favor, if you are trying to make the most out of your Twitter presence and monitoring/interacting with your [...]
Make Facebook your central hub to update all of your social networks using SocialToo
Everyday, it seems, another app comes from somewhere allowing you to update your social networks from a single location. TubeMogul recently made such an announcement, and there are countless plugins for WordPress that do the same, as well as plugins for browsers, such as Minggl for Firefox. Well, here is one for Facebook, called SocialToo. [...]
Top 10 Twitter Service Clients Account for 90% of Tweets
According to a recent study by Rapleaf, a ‘people database’ with insight into hundreds of millions of consumers across social media, the top ten Twitter service clients account for 90% of the Tweets. It’s similar to the actual distribution of Twitter users themselves. There are over 1900 Twitter clients available, so there is definitely still [...]
Twitter tools for Corporations
This is a great article about how to determine if your company should be involved in Twitter as a potential marketing tool. It also shows some of the best tools used by some of the biggest brands. http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/enterprise-twitter-tools/ Jason Small Social Media and the Big W Founder www.SocialMediaandtheBigW.comGoogle+
Visual Breakdown of Twitter
This is one of the best visuals I have seen. It shows just how ‘useful’ Twitter is, and is not. Full disclosure: I did not create this graphic. Credit is noted at the bottom of the graphic. Jason Small Social Media and the Big W Founder www.SocialMediaandtheBigW.comGoogle+
Live Video Streaming on Twitter
It will be interesting to see how applicable this function is, as Twitter is a ‘hyper-short’ communication system keeping things to a top-line, concise 140 characters. Video exchange can be time-consuming and is much more involved but could somehow evolve into another quick-format communication. Check out the Live Video Streaming Tool for Twitter here: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/07/29/stream-live-video-on-twitter/ [...]
700+ Twitter Tools…is this the ultimate guide to twitter tools?
Right now, he claims this is the biggest collection of Twitter tools on the web…might be true. Check it out: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/05/30/the-ultimate-list-of-twitter-tools/ Jason Small Social Media and the Big W Founder www.SocialMediaandtheBigW.comGoogle+
Location-based mobile marketing via Twitter – here it comes!
Mobile marketing coupled with coupons, all geo-centric, is becoming the ‘now’ marketing. http://mashable.com/2009/08/07/foursquare-partnership/ As the world went from local to instant unity via technology, now we return to hyper-local. These services are already experiencing a success story – in less than 12 months of operation. Jason Small Social Media and the Big W Founder www.SocialMediaandtheBigW.comGoogle+
What took Twitter down yesterday
http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/ In short, it was a malicious attack to overwhelm the system. They are becoming more of a rare occurrence, with the advancement of protective systems to frustrate the hackers…but once in a while, there is always ‘one in the crowd’ that gets through. I never understand these guys, their only purpose is to create [...]
How to use Twitter to sell
So you have a Twitter account, you are tweeting, people are twittering in front of you, people are sharing links…and you have no idea how to make it work for you. First, stop and make sure it makes sense for you to be on Twitter – if your target market/demo isn’t likely to be able [...]
