Video – Twitter in super real time
An excellent video courtesy of The Next Web, which shows the new version of Tweetdeck (not yet publicly available) which shows your tweets in real real-time. What do you think, is it a bit too real?
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Would you pay for Twitter stats?
There are some great Twitter tools available out there that give you free access to valuable Twitter stats. But is it worth paying for a separate Twitter analytics package on top of this? I’ve looked at the pros and cons of this, and examined one of the paid Twitter services available – Tweetmeme.
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Why Twitter Will Either Build A Web Client Or Buy Tweetdeck
Over the past few months Twitter has started to reclaim some of the apps on mobiles to give themselves a larger presence and more control over the Twitter experience but they still don’t have any web clients. I wanted to explore why Twitter either acquiring a web client or building one of their own would be a smart thing for them to do…
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What can Stephen Fry do for your traffic?
Stephen Fry is one of the most popular Tweeters, but what can happen if he tweets about your business? Some stats show the real power that someone can have, if you’re lucky enough to get in front of their online community.
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The business use of Twitter
A recent survey into Twitter usage threw up some interesting results, particularly in the way that we use the site to communicate with brands. Twitter is increasingly seen as the tool for business, but there is still a staggering amount of brands that aren’t engaging in social media at all…
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How Twitter Is Coming Of Age
The last year has seen massive growth for Twitter but it is only in the last couple of months that they seem to have actually grown up as a business and really made some big strong decisions and added key features that will see them become a major player long in to the future. I wanted to look at some of those key features and see just how Twitter is starting to evolve…
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How To Integrate Twitter Feature @Anywhere In To Your Blog Or Website
Adding the @anywhere twitter fucntion to your site could not be easier and we wanted to see just how easy it was to have hover over boxes on your site and we were actually able to integrate it in less than a couple of minutes. It is a great way of adding context to your articles and letting people decide if they want to follow the selected Twitter user or not. There will be a lot fancier integrations than this one but this is one of the first steps of Twitter becoming a fabric of the web…
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Charities And Social Media – The Return Of Twestival
Last year when Twitter was very much a new kid on the block a group of passionate people saw it’s rise as a great way to create a charity event called Twestival that spread all over the world and helped to raise money for charity. The time has come for the 2nd installment of Twestival [...]
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How To Vastly Improve Your Twitter Stream
Managing the people you follow on Twitter is not that easy and thanks to the way Twitter has been built it takes considerable effort to manage those people but there are a couple of tools that you can now use that will help you immensely. The key with Twitter is taking the time to build up your stream and tailor it to your own needs so as instead of having a load of useless waffle in there you have something that adds real value to you and constantly gives you the best information. Here is how to vastly improve your Twitter Stream…
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Twitter investing in search
With their recent hire of search guru Krishna Gade it’s clear that Twitter are committed to developing their search functionality, possibly as a route to monetisation. There are still many developments to be made in the area of real time search and this presents a real opportunity for Twitter to set the trend.
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Does Twitter Add Anything To Conferences?
I was at a conference tonight and due to a combination of my phone being nearly dead and the fact that I’m trying to cut down on my Twitter usage (long story) it was the first conference that I have been to in a while where I actually fully concentrated on the speakers. I have a new habit at conferences (which nearly everybody has) of sitting there with my laptop on my knees answering emails and updating Twitter with interesting things I hear and even talking with other people at the conference on Twitter. Something changed tonight when I was watching the talks and giving them my 100% dedicated attention… I enjoyed it and left feeling inspired and uplifted…
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How Do You Use Twitter?
I have been talking to different people in the last couple of days about the tools the use to access Twitter and have been blown away by the amount of different services, apps and tools that are in use. We are big Tweetdeck users here in the office and for all our clients but it seems to be a case of different strokes for different folks. With that in mind I wanted to carry out a little poll to find out what a social media savvy bunch like the readers of this blog would use. There are benefits to each service and what I actually find is that I end up using a couple like Twitter.com to access things quickly, the mobile when I am relaxing in the evening or on the go an Tweetdeck for more formal client work….
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