From the monthly archives:

August 2012

Has Twitter Only Just Begun?

August 29, 2012

Because Twitter has been having some success solving it’s 7 biggest problems, I feel that now, late 2012, is the real beginning of Twitter. Why do I say this? Because Twitter finally has An appropriate number of employees, A business plan, A rich media interface A stable-enough platform to plan for the future. What Took Twitter [...]

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Study: How Twitter Helps Students Get Better Grades (Infographic)

August 27, 2012

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Twitter’s Paid Advertising Rolls Out To More Users Through Hootsuite

August 23, 2012

Today when I opened HootSuite there was a notification that Twitter wanted to give me the opportunity to run ads or promote my account: Twitter explained: “As with all of our advertising efforts, we are being thoughtful and deliberate in how we roll out self-serve to all kinds of small and local businesses,” she said. [...]

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Beware: Social Profiles Can Help You Land or Lose A Job #Infographic

August 21, 2012

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How To Find The Most Popular Tweets On Any Topic

August 20, 2012

Topsy saves all Tweets, and lets you search them in a bunch of awesome ways. One of my favorite Topsy features is searching for the most popular tweets from a particular user. For example, here are the most popular tweets from @TweetSmarter about the topic “etiquette.” Here’s what that looks like for the most popular [...]

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How to Search for Tweets From Only Those You Follow on Twitter

August 17, 2012

For any search you do on Twitter, there will three options that appear near the top of the page: Top, All, and People you Follow. It looks like this: Click on “People you Follow” and you’re done. Quick and easy! Why Twitter Will NOT Show You All Tweets…And What You Can Do What many people find [...]

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The Ultimate Guide To Finding People Via Social Media

August 16, 2012

Social media is the ultimate place to make connections. Here you can find people who can: Help you with your career or business, Buy your product or service, Answer your questions, Link to your website, Promote you, Share insider tips… …or who are just interesting people to get to know, and much, much more! 1. Finding [...]

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Infocharts: What the World Tweets, And From Where

August 16, 2012

A cool new service—the Diffbot Page Classifier API—instantly determines the page type of any web link, e.g product, article, image, recipe, etc. Very cool! Their Chrome extension classifies every link in your Tweet-stream, and automatically expands all photos and articles without leaving Twitter.com. Diffbot analyzed 750,000 links posted to Twitter to determine what we’re sharing, [...]

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Who has Fake Followers on Twitter?

August 14, 2012

In the Fake Follower Count Of 11 Top Tweeters report from Huffington Post, folks learned that popular accounts can have a lot of fake followers. In my test using the Status tool, I found that it reports @Twitter itself to have a lot of fakes: Fake: 42% Inactive: 35% Good: 23% So that made feel a little better [...]

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Infographic: How Your Personality Type Explains Your Social Media Use

August 13, 2012

From CPP, publishers of the Myers-Briggs personality assessment. Click to enlarge:

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