From the monthly archives:

May 2012

Should You Repeat Some Tweets? I Do. Here’s Why:

May 28, 2012

If there’s important and popular information that’s helpful to people on Twitter, generally I repeat it within a day or so…even though some people are annoyed by the repeating. I don’t earn anything by repeating tweets, and 99% of what I repeat is not written by me or anyone I work with. So I’m not doing [...]

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Lots of Changes At Twitter In May

May 18, 2012

Twitter’s made a bunch of changes recently. Here’s their latest update on what’s happening: New things are always happening here at Twitter HQ. We’re growing at a rapid pace, and our commitment to simplicity, transparency, and reaching every person on the planet continues. We thought you might be interested in knowing about some of our [...]

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Infographic: How to respond to customers on social media

May 15, 2012

Click image to enlarge, or get the social media toolkit HT @AllTwitter

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Infographic: Spring 2012 Social Media User Statistics

May 15, 2012

Infographic by- GO-Gulf.com Web Design Company Number of Users on Popular Social Networking Sites Social Networking Sites Number of Users(in millions) Facebook 901 Twitter 555 Google+ 170 Linkedin 150 Pinterest 11.7 Unique Monthly Visits on Top Social Networking Websites Social Networking Sites Unique Monthly Visitors (in millions) Facebook 7012.9 Twitter 182.1 Google+ 61.0 Linkedin 85.7 [...]

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Is Twitter Censoring Search Results? Will They Fix It?

May 10, 2012

Many people don’t use Twitter search, so Twitter has worked hard to get more “average” users to try it, particularly by putting various search results on the “Discover” tab. But for those users that rely on and regularly use Twitter search, there is a problem: Twitter search doesn’t show all tweets by default. The solution [...]

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Find out if you’re addicted to Twitter or Facebook

May 8, 2012

The journal Psychological Reports reported on a test designed to help determine if you’re addicted to your favorite social media site. It uses the ‘six core elements of addiction’ that doctors use to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. People who are organised, ambitious and extroverted are less likely to be addicts, said psychologist Cecilie Schou Andreassen, who [...]

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The Wrong Way To Connect On Twitter…and The Right Way.

May 7, 2012

Using Twitter to connect with others is one of the keys to success. But many people are very immature in how they try to connect. Tweeting “follow me” or “please retweet this” to people you have no connection with is a typical bad example. I’ve written about the right way to connect on Twitter here. [...]

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Infographic: What to Tweet—Are YOUR Tweets Worth Reading?

May 4, 2012

The authors of an academic paper covered by the Harvard Business Review asked respondents to rate 43,000 tweets as either: Worth Reading Not Worth Reading Just OK The overall results: The authors pointed out that “…results suggest that users tolerate a large amount of less-desired content in their feeds. We find that users value information sharing [...]

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Nine Kinds Of Sites More Likely To Infect Your Computer Than Porn Websites

May 3, 2012

The April 2012 Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec [pdf] had some fascinating stats: Web based attacks increased by 36% with over 4,500 new attacks each day. ►Tweet this stat 403 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, a 41% increase of 2010. ►Tweet this stat SPAM volumes dropped by 13% in 2011 [...]

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How To Tell Google To Send You More Visitors WITHOUT A Lot Of Complicated SEO

May 3, 2012

Wouldn’t you like Google to start sending crowds of people to read your website? Of course, by sharing your posts on social media, you’ve already taken one of the most important steps. For example, getting mentioned on Twitter does improve your ranking in Google search results. But a lot of what you read on the [...]

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