All Entries Tagged With: "twitter apps"

Twitter Growth: 140 Employees and 70,000+ Apps

With the explosive growth of Twitter applications, real-time search deals with major search engines, and the geo-location feature added in 2009 – Twitter is putting the power of tens of thousands of developers to work.

2010 Geo-Location: Social Media Year of “Where are you?”

Trending 2009, location-based social media APIs have been storming the social-sphere. If you look closely at how search engines have trended towards localization, it makes sense. Over the years, technology starts at a macro level and then evolves to service users on a more personal level. Now, social media is going to rapidly evolve from a macro level to a location-based micro-level.

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.

Web 3.0? Nimbus and Focus.

At the current pace of the accelerating social media space – the next evolution in social media could send everyone racing, yet again, to understand and strategically gauge the best implementation of the medium…which may become completely reinvented. Relax, it won’t happen tomorrow or next week – but keep your expectations in check as it can always be right around the corner. What are we talking about? Web 3.0. Where your status will be called your “nimbus” and those things you want to follow or have interest in will be called your “focus.”

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.

Activate Your Natural Sales Force: Flip.to Leverages Social Media & Your Employees

At a time when some companies are completely banning social media in the office, and others are embracing it, it looks like Flip.to presents a compelling reason to keep your employees happy while you simultaneously give your bottom line more potential.

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.

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+

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+

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 [...]

A few great twitter resources

Hey guys – you should list your twitter account in twellow for starters: twellow.com Then use this tool to start batch following using specific criteria that will bring relevant followers around to you: refollow.com Google+