19 Nov 09 Twitter Trends for Today 19 November 2009

I am now thinking about little bit of documenting about twitter trends…  Because its fun to see how the trend is moving around the net.

So, today’s search and trending topics are currently

• #nottosayonfirstdate
• New MoonNew Moon, the next Twilight movie, will be out in theaters Nov. 20. Fans can’t wait.
• Thierry HenryWorld Cup soccer fans are upset about what many consider a blatant handball violation which led to a French goal and eventual win against Ireland in a qualifying match today (Nov. 18).
• #IReallyLoveTILA
• #FunnyButNOTCOOL
• #svuk
• #openwebawards@mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards, Social Media Edition. Voting on the 5 top nominations in each category takes place Nov. 18 – Dec. 13. Winners to be announced Dec. 15.
• IrelandIreland lost to France 1-2 in a World Cup qualifying soccer match (Nov. 18).
• ThanksgivingIn the United States, people give thanks on the fourth Thursday in November (in 2009, the 26th). People are tweeting their holiday plans, which traditionally include turkey.
• FIFA

It’s actually interesting to see twitter has now global player as you can actually see search such as Thierry Henry is now dominating Twitter as football/soccer is pretty much not the hot topic but the total volume of twitter users are no longer dependent on US population, which is pretty good news for Twitter.

So, what are your thoughts?

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18 Jun 09 How to get better indexing with Twitter posts

Lately, I have been using this service, Twitoaster.com, for my tweets. It is really awesome service and I actually enjoy using it. It can actually track your twitter discussion, hence whoever replies to your tweets, will get indexed in Twitoaster.com.

How does it work?

As usual, it is basically an external API, so when you login at twitoaster, simply use your twitter login and password there, and that’s it. It will actually index all your replies, retweets that are in public timeline.

What’s the catch?

Why do we create accounts on facebook, friendster, myspace, twitter, digg, technorati? It is basically understandable that they give you traffic, search ability and special add-on functions that you can actually link back to your blog, profiles, websites, etc. Twitoaster can index your tweets, RTs, therefore, in a marketing point of view, when you post a URL in your tweets and someone replies you, your URL will get indexed which is good for extra traffic when someone search as many of internet marketer uses twitter to gain more traffic. Google index pretty quick with Twitoaster and I sometimes found my tweets while I search some of the keywords I posted in Twitter. That means, you don’t need extra time to input your tweets to be seen, not only in twitter, but also in Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live.

Usability

It is similar to blog commenting and it works with the feed, so, it is extremely easy to use and very user friendly, whatever you post in Twitoaster will be posted in Twitter, but it is not very good to spam because you have limits to use external APIs in Twitter, nevertheless, if you post something really good in 140 characters, it is possible that you will get some replies and that will actually make your tweets easily found and more popular not only in Twitter, but also in the web.

So, give it a try at Twitoaster.com and tell me what you think.

Have a good one.

Tags: google, how to, msn live, twitter, yahoo

06 May 09 What is Twitter and why use it?

Speaking of web 2.0, now Twitter is probably the most discussed tool on the planet. I watched CNN, they have twitter account, I watched talk-shows, they have twitter accounts, such as Ellen Show, Jimmy Kimmel, etc etc.

Why twitter is so hot?

Twitter is basically updating status tool that can be integrated with other APIs (Application Programming Interface).

Why use twitter?

Twitter is pretty awesome for social networking, it is one way communication or could be two ways if you wish to. The biggest difference about other social networking sites such as facebook, friendster, myspace is that twitter does not need to approve your request to be in your network. If someone likes what you write, they will follow you, however, you don’t have to follow back.

Twitter hype?

It is actually now too much hype as of today. People are jumping the bandwagon on twitter and some people even misuse or abuse the system. But don’t worry, you can easily get banned too.

Tags: facebook, infomm, internet marketing, ping, twitter

09 Mar 09 Facebook bid to Twitter Failed

For we all know, twitter is coming along nicely in blogger world. However, Facebook failed to bid twitter eventually and It may be the end of the rumor for possible merger between two big guns.

Of course, the main reason is about price and structure between two companies and the most important thing is the difficulty to determine the value of the stocks of twitter.

These two companies are pretty famous for web 2.0 environment, so that people are intrigued about this particular news. However, it is actually irony that these companies do not make massive amount of revenue yet, but looks very much likely to be potential market in a near future.

In my opinion, twitter will be a next big thing for web 2.0. It is just a matter of time whether Facebook or Google will buy Twitter off.

Tags: blog, blogger, facebook, google, potential, revenue, twitter, web

20 Dec 08 How to maximise your Twitter potent potential?

Twitter’s been the latest Web 2.0 craze, and there’s no doubt about that.

What is it? Well you have a bunch of friends that follow you, and you follow a bunch of friends yourself. This creates a stable social network, and eventually snowballs into a massive online community – so to speak. The point of the idea is to allow other people to know what your doing, pretty much as you do it. You have 140 characters to say what you want to say, and let your followers know!

Now many web developers use this social media network to gain traffic and you can do the same! More traffic means more revenue What you firstly need to do is, obviously sign up for an account. Then build up a good network of friends. This isn’t a short-term or “over night” traffic booster. Getting traffic from twitter will take some time, but the advantage is that it will be EXTREMELY targeted, simply because the visitor shows great deal of interest.

Once you sign up and build a good network of friends, you can start Twittering and letting people know what your doing, and every now and post a link to your site/page/product.  Twitter will automatically cloak long URLs but that’s not a worry!

One of the biggest mistakes newbies using Twitter is that they go randomly mass adding people – DON’T DO THIS! It’s regarded as spam and you won’t succeed, just don’t even try! However, you can use the following 16 tools to maximize your Twitter Potential!

Twitter Specific Tools:

1) TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter and lets you make posts from your browser status bar. It also allows you to switch between multiple Twitter accounts in one click. This is my #1 must-have, deal-breaker, cannot live without Twitter plug-in.

2) Retweet This is an application designed for use with the Greasemonkey Firefox plug-in. It allows you to append a retweet button to the end of each Twitter entry to encourage your followers to retweet your posts.

3) Classify Twitter Users is a script that allows you to classify Twitter users and decide whether they are worth following based on their friends, followers and post ratios. Another Greasemonkey app, it’s a great tool to help you weed out the Twitter spammers and fan boys from the socially healthy.

4) TwittAd allows Twitter users to monetize their account by accepting advertising on the background image of their Twitter user profile. You decide the duration and price advertisers pay for exposure and get paíd for every hour you serve the ad.

5) TwitterCounter lets you add a daily updating TwitterCounter to your blog so everybody can see how popular you are by the number of persons following you.

6) TweetBeep is just like having Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables you to keep track of conversations that mention you, your products or your company via email. You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog. It’s a great tool for online reputation management and you don’t even have to be a Twitter user to benefit from it. TweetBeep is another one of my personal *must haves*.

7) Twitter Grader measures the reach and authority of a Twitter user, calculated by the pace of their updates, the completeness of their profile, their number of followers and the network power of those followers.

Twitter Grader displays as a score out of 100 and is consistently updating and adapting as your Twitter account grows. Based on those grades, Twitter Grader lists the Twitter Elite globally and in each country, just like Technorati does for bloggers.

TwitPic, as the name suggests, is a photo sharing tool for Twitter. When logged in, it allows you to upload photos and post them with comments as a Tweet. It works with a range of Twitter clients such as Twitterific, Twhirl and MobileTwitter and stores all your photos in a single location with updated viewing stats. As far as Twitter image sharing goes, this is king for reliability.

9) Twuffer is a Twitter buffer. It allows Twitter users to compose a líst of future tweets, and schedule their release. Twuffer is ideal for making hourly, daily or monthly announcements or send post-dated birthday greetings or reminders to people about upcoming events. It’s also perfect if you’re the type of person who wants to give the impression that you don’t ever sleep.

10) Twistori I have a real soft spot for this one. One of the developers is Amy Hoy, one of my favorite speakers from Webstock 2008 and a goth geek to boot. Twistori is a social experiment that taps into the Twitter conversations revolving around life’s central activities: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish. You can click on any of these emotions and witness a live feed of Tweets that use them. It’s voyeuristic and utterly compelling.

11) iTweet is another interface for Twitter. It has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags and features full follow, block and notifications features. Users can view and post user bio, location and URLs inline with their tweets. Another cool feature of iTweet is the ability to Retweet a user post with a single click.

12) Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. Similar to Digg, on Twitturly, people “vote” for a URL. The more votes it gets the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page and as the votes rise it gets displayed higher up the home page. Twitturly differs from Digg in that instead of voting on their site, you vote by participating on Twitter. Each time that you send a link to your followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes a note of it and applies your vote to that URL. It’s a great way to follow the loudest global conversations.

13) Mr Tweet is another big favorite of mine. Similar to LinkedIn , it looks through your extended network and makes suggestions to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. For example, which of your followers should you be following in return? Who are the most influential people you should be following? Who are your followers following?

14) Twitter Search is Twitter’s own built-in and oft-overlooked search tool. You can use it to search for other Twitter users, keywords, hash tag topics and a range of cool shortcut items.

Non Twitter Specific Tools:

15) FlipTitle is, not surprisingly, a tool that enables you to flip text upside down. It’s great for Twitter because sometimes your tweets can get lost in the conversation. Using FlipTitle makes sure they get noticed.

16) Bit.ly is a very cool URL shortener that also includes click-thru statistics. Why is it perfect for Twitter? Because the length of the converted URLs is generally much shorter than other URL converters like TinyURL. When you are tweeting, space is premium as your whole post can only consist of 140 characters including spacing.

Good luck with your Twittering Adventures!

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