Friday, 3rd July 2009
If you use twitterfeed to sync your blogs with your Twitter account, you could easily integrate tweetmeme retweet counters by adding the code “RT @tweetmeme” to your twitterfeed feeds.
Once you have added the tweetmeme retweet code to the prefix field of your twtterfeed feed, you tweets will be counted by tweetmeme.
This saves me a lot of time so that I do not need to manually post my blog posts to Twitter with the tweetmeme retweet code manually.
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Tagged As: Social Networks, Social-media, Tweetmeme, Twitter, twitterfeed
Monday, 25th May 2009
I have been applying what I have learnt from the Twitter Traffic Machine for over a month now. When I started on 10 April 2009, I had 2258 followers. After using the tips and tricks in the Twitter Traffic Machine for 2.5 months, my followers have risen to 4024, at the time of this posting.
My followers have increased by 1766 in 45 days. That’s an average of 39 new followers per day. A lot of people are promoting the Twitter Traffic Machine on Twitter with an ad that goes something like “Thanks for the follow! Would you like to get 16,000 Followers in 90 days and make money? http://bit.ly/………”.
I doubt I would get 16000 followers in 90 days and I don’t really care. The “make money” portion of the Twitter Traffic Machine is to promote the eBook in your automated Twitter message to your new followers. That’s great for the author but if do not wish to promote his eBook on Twitter, you could promote something else.
Some of the tips in this eBook are pretty common knowledge for advanced Twitter users. I did learn a few new things about Twitter and Twitter tools that I …
Tuesday, 28th April 2009
1. Magpie
Magpie is an ad network for Twitter. They’ll post tweets to your Twitter account on a predefined ratio of tweets to ads. You could select to post ads as often as 1 ad after you post 1 Tweet or as spaced out as 1 ad after 200 Tweets. This is all done automatically for you so you don’t have to do anything.
Magpie’s ads come in pay per view, pay per click, pay per sale and pay per lead. You may choose to manually select the ads you wish to post to your Twitter account or let Magpie handle it automatically. Another great feature is to prepend the Magpie ads with a custom text like “ad:”.
2. Twittad
Twittad does not post Tweets to your Twitter account. Instead, it displays a background image to your Twitter account. Twittad calculates the estimated monthly ad cost of your Twitter account and you may edit that amount to whatever amount you think your Twitter is worth. The more targeted followers, the more money your Twitter account is worth to advertisers.
Mine’s worth only $265.71 per month with my 3000 or so followers at the time of this posting. Maybe my Twitter account would …
Tagged As: Advertising, Advertising network, Cost per action, Magpie, Pay per click, Social network, Twittad, Twitter
Thursday, 19th March 2009
The guys at Twitip just posted a blog post on using the text “via @” instead of “RT” for Twitter retweets. Now that is something new for me!
Is that a better way to retweet? I don’t think so. Everyone is used to using “RT” at the moment and it would take a lot of effort for us to change our ways.
I would rather use Tweetdeck to post retweets at the moment. Tweetdeck uses “RT” so I shall stick to that. I am just too lazy to do anything else.
Tagged As: RT, Social network
Thursday, 19th March 2009
Retweeting is when you copy someone else’s Twitter tweet and post it as your own. Usually, people add “RT”, “Retweet”, “Retweeting” or “Reading”. Blogging Bits has a great article on how, why and when to Retweet. My article will focus on how to allow other people to retweet your tweets easily with the free service, Please Retweet Me.
Please Retweet Me replaces your normal way of sending manual tweets. Instead of logging into Twitter.com to send your tweets, go to Please Retweet Me instead.
Please Retweet Me adds something like “http://pleasert.me/XXX” to your tweet. When someone clicks on that link, they will be forwarded to Twitter with a message with “RT @yourtwitterusername” and “http://pleasert.me/XXX”.
I find this a lot more convenient for people to retweet your tweets. Not everyone knows how to retweet yet and this could encourage them to try it.
Tagged As: Social Networking, Social Networks, Twitter
Monday, 16th March 2009
1. Twitoria
Twitoria finds your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so that you can remove them. The problem with Twitoria is you cannot remove your friends from Twitoria. You need to login to Twitter, click on the Twitter user’s profile in Twitoria and remove them.
2. Twitter Karma
Twitter Karma is my favourite follower tool. It lets me delete everyone who does not folow me with a few clicks of my mouse. You can mass follow, delete and block people with Twitter Karma, which would take you ages to do on Twitter itself.
3. Tweepler
Tweepler displays a list of new followers of your Twitter account. Click on the left arrow to follow them back or the right arrow to ignore them. I didn’t find this as useful as Twitter Karma because you can only process 10 Twitter members at a time.
4. Tweet Later
TweetLater lets you automatically follow people who follow you or you could choose to manually screen …
Wednesday, 11th March 2009
NameCheap uses Twitter for competitions and I think it is a wonderful idea.
They will be giving away three domain names every hour on the hour for two weeks on Twitter. The top two players to answer the most questions correctly as well as one player at random will win customizable Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks up to $500.
We could certainly use NameCheap’s idea for our own businesses.
Sunday, 8th March 2009
ATI used to have a RSS feed for announcing their latest ATI Catalyst drivers. However, on 20 February, they announced that “Catalyst updates will no longer be available as an RSS feed We are excited to announce the availability of exclusive updates on Twitter!!”.
Check out the ATI Catalyst Twitter to see how they update ATI customers with the latest drivers and news. ATI has added more personality to their update service by having Terry Makedon, their Mgr. Catalyst Product Management, to post updates on Twitter. It beats looking at a plain machine generated update anytime.
Is this a growing trend? You bet! Will RSS be redundant soon? No way! I follow ATI Catalyst’s feed via RSS and not on Twitter itself. I think of Twitter as an add-on for RSS feeds. RSS feeds feel so naked without FeedBurner or Twitter.
Sunday, 8th March 2009
I DO NOT disagree with SocialToo’s decision to stop automated DMs on their site but I disagree with their decision to block users who send automated DMs from other sites.
There are pros and cons of sending automated direct messages on Twitter. I believe the number one reason for auto sending welcome direct messages, auto following and auto unfollowing people on Twitter is to save TIME! Who has the time to manually do all this once you receive a lot of new followers everyday?
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Tagged As: Twitter
Saturday, 7th March 2009
Don Reisinger wrote an interesting article on how he uses Twitter to replace RSS readers. Personally, I still use RSS readers from my Windows machine and I don’t think Twitter is going to replace that any time soon.
However, I do understand that this Twitter phenomenon is something that I cannot ignore. Instead of using Twitter to post nonsensical things about my daily life, I have started using twitterfeed to post my latest blog posts to my Twitter account. Another service that does something like twitterfeed is TweetLater . What twitterfeed and TweetLater do is they take your RSS feeds and post the latest contents of your feeds to your Twitter account automatically.
You may grab content from more than 1 RSS feed and post it into a single Twitter account. The end result is you have a new RSS feed that is made up of 2 RSS feeds because every Twitter account has a RSS feed too. The possibilities are endless.
I have experimented with combining all the RSS feeds of my site, Oasis Fanatic, to create a “site summary” of all the latest updates. All the latest updates are now posted to the …
Tagged As: Twitter
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