Earlier this week I wrote a post about follower-building services on Twitter, warning about the dangers and how people may perceive you if you use them.
It felt a little bit like preaching to the choir.
Amy Mengel made an excellent point in the comments to that post:
“Unfortunately the people on Twitter who promote these schemes and [...]
Tag Archives: Twitter
8 Talking Points On Twitter Follower-Building Tools
July 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop: Racing To The Bottom?
June 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
Twitter was buzzing last night as the latest version of free Twitter client TweetDeck was launched, to fairly universal acclaim.
Mashable has a detailed run-down of the new Tweetdeck features, and a good comparison of the new version with its closest competitor, Seesmic Desktop. In a nutshell, the big-name new features are:
A new TweetDeck iPhone app;
Support [...]
Is The State Of The Twittersphere Declining?
June 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
On June 10 HubSpot released its second State of the Twittersphere report. The report looks at information collected from over 4.5 million Twitter accounts over the last nine months. Their conclusion:
"…many of the accounts on Twitter aren’t actually using it all that much."
The report found that:
79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL;
75.86% of users have [...]
BackType Connect – Good… Too Good?
May 15, 2009 – 8:00 am
Over the last couple of years, it’s become harder and harder to track conversations about your site online. Tools like Google Blogsearch and Google Alerts are great for tracking links from other blogs, but as micro-blogging tools like Twitter, Jaiku, FriendFeed, Tumblr and their like emerged people started to post links in ways that are [...]
I Don’t Care When You Joined Twitter
May 4, 2009 – 8:00 am
A couple of big old-media events boosted Twitter’s profile over the last few weeks (ever notice how social media tool success is often still measured by traditional media coverage?). First, Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who reached one million followers first. Shortly after that, Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter.
The storm of media coverage over those [...]
Where’s The Line With Twitter “Spam”?
May 1, 2009 – 7:28 am
Do you find it helpful when people link to their latest content on Twitter?
Tweetstats says I’ve posted an average of about 25 tweets per day since September 2007. In the last few months, I’ve averaged over 40. Each weekday, one of those tweets is usually to my latest blog post.
The question is, does that tweet [...]
Swine Flu Showing The Best – And Worst – Of Social Media In A Crisis
April 29, 2009 – 8:29 am
I’ve written and presented in the past on potential uses of social media in crisis communications. In the past, it’s been about the potential uses. In the last few days, though, we’ve seen some of the best – and worst – potential uses of online tools (social and otherwise) to communicate with the public in [...]
Youth Vs Adults: Strong Ties/Weak Networks
April 27, 2009 – 8:00 am
The kids are all about social media. They’re publishing content, streaming video and Twittering wildly. Right?
Wrong.
Just as social media practitioners use and view these tools differently to the general population, we need to remember that young people use these tools differently to us. They’re informed about the tools but while they’re highly active online, we [...]
Fast-Tracking to Twitter
April 22, 2009 – 8:00 am
Back in February I mused about the apparent greater willingness of companies to sign up for Twitter than to start blogs. I’ll go one further now – I’m starting to see companies skip blogging entirely and go straight to Twitter.
Companies like Fairmont Hotels are by-passing blogging entirely and starting to engage with Twitter as an [...]
Disagree With Me
One of the reasons I write so frequently here is that I love reading your take on things.
Sometimes I’ll write about things I know something about; other times I’ll write about things I’m not so sure about. Regardless, the most rewarding part is reading the comments (even if they have been slow recently – Twitter [...]