At the time of this writing, I have over 91,000 Twitter followers. No, I don’t read every word they type. No, I don’t recommend that you try to get 10s of thousands of followers. But I’m frequently asked how I keep up with everyone, and so, I’m going to update something I wrote once before in November of 2008. I hope this is useful to you.
Read Chris Brogan's article How to Manage Twitter.
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Friday, 8 May 2009
Can Social Networking Be The Key To Long Term Internet Success?
By Co-editor
A plan to continue to purchase Internet traffic for the rest of your life is not a workable plan for the long haul. If you goal is to achieve long term success online then this article on social networking is a must read.
Social networking use to apply mostly to businesses such as multi-level marketing. As a matter of fact it has become known as network marketing because successful business owners were the ones who could network with other people to build their business.
On the Internet today social networking has become a must do activity to achieve long term success. Going to a website to purchase something is not something people want to do. Today people expect to go on a blog and be entertained before they actually open their wallet and pull out their credit card.
The most successful Internet marketers have blogs that entertain their visitors through the use of videos, audios, comment boxes, polls, pictures, graphics, banners, and much more. You yourself probably have landed on a blog that you found extremely interesting and entertaining.
Blogging is one of the most profitable forms of social networking. Professional Internet marketers that learn how to blog successfully are making astronomical sums of money on the Internet today.
However you can still make money in other ways using social networking. For example you can join Facebook and create a profile that includes a website address for products you sell.
The number of people you interact with on Facebook can be increased by becoming active and seeking people out. This can be as simple as inviting them to join your group. This is a very passive way of selling products because people who get to know you will also get to know about what you do to make money online.
Today Twitter is probably the hottest social networking site on the Internet.com. If you follow people with common interests they will often follow you back. The larger your number of followers increases to the more potential you have to market to that list.
Not selling all of the time in the micro-blog posts you make is the real trick. The trick is to get to know people and build relationships with them. Then when you have something to offer, in the form of a new product or program, a certain number of people will want to check those out because you already have credibility with them.
Over time having a large list of people you associate with online makes social networking a big part of your long term success.
Glenn Buckman is a successful full-time internet marketer from Chandler Arizona. For a free consultation on social networking and many other internet marketing techniques check out his blog at http://GlennBuckman.com and register for the free ATTRACTION MARKETING NEWSLETTER.
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Twitter to Search the Web in Real Time
By Chris Crum - Thu, 05/07/2009 - 17:06
Twitter Moving Beyond Tweets
Earlier this year, Twitter began integrating Twitter Search (formerly Summize) into its home page. Just about a week ago, it became available there for everybody.
But that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is what lies ahead for Twitter search. From the sound of it, it's about to get taken a lot more seriously. According to CNET, Twitter's new VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram says that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon crawl links included in tweets, and index content from those pages. What do you think about that? Tell WPN readers.
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"Twitter Search will also get a reputation ranking system soon, Jayaram told me," reports CNET's Rafe Needleman. "When you do a search on a 'trending' topic (a topic that is so big it gets its own link in the Twitter.com sidebar), Twitter will take into account the reputation of the person who wrote each tweet and rank search results in part based on that."
Twitter search has been quite useful as it is. I've written about this in the past. For businesses, it has been a great tool for finding potential leads, and managing your online reputation, just to name a couple.
For the general public, it's provided insight into what people are talking about right now, it's often broken news stories, and it's provided a way for people to connect with others who may have something in common with them (although Twellow is more specifically designed for this).
But with changes coming to Twitter Search, it's going to be a whole new ball game. We're talking about Google territory. Twitter is adding algorithmic ranking, perhaps similar to Google's Pagerank. It sounds like Twitter will be bringing an altogether new ranking concept to Internet search by using the number of links in tweets as a value statement on the web page.
This is taking real-time search for web pages to a new level. And let's also not forget that Jayaram used to be the VP of Search Quality at Google.
What Twitter is doing could compete with Google News search, Google Blog Search, Google video search, and in terms of recent content even Google's main search engine.
Is it going to come out and immediately dethrone Google? That's probably not going to happen. For one Twitter users still have a hard time convincing people why they should be using Twitter at all. Everyone already uses Google, and even if another search engine were delivering better results, people would still be using Google. That seems to be the problem Microsoft is having (it is their claim that people found their results as good or better than Google).
"Strategically, a more advanced search engine could give Twitter more appeal as a takeover target - Steve Ballmer, for example, is making noise about how Microsoft has to get more disruptive in search," says Buckpost at Twitterrati. "Better search could also jump-start Twitter’s business by providing more relevance and targeting for advertisers."
Interesting point. We are still waiting on that revenue machine Twitter's going to unload on us.
Either way, Twitter is clearly branching out beyond the simple social network/public IM/microblogging/etc. platform it has become known as. It has been in the search conversation for some time (even as a possible test for Google), but now you might start finding it there for greater reasons.
What do you think about Twitter's search plans? Tell us.
Do you think Twitter will cut into Google searches significnatly? Why? Why not?
Do you think Google will improve its own real time search capabilities enough to stamp out any threat? Share your opinion.
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
What Is Twitter About in One Word?
By Chris Crum - Tue, 05/05/2009 - 12:20
Read on for the answer…
The "what is Twitter about?" article is not a new concept. It's been discussed frequently pretty much since Twitter was launched. Yet people still have a hard time grasping the concept. In fact, Twitter has had a hard time with user retention most likely because so many people try it based on all of the hype, and then don't return because they don’t "get it." What is Twitter about to you in one word? Tell us.
The truth is, it often takes a while using the service to "get it." The more you use it, the more you start to realize the benefits that are there. I (with a little help from Mike and Tiffany) asked a whole bunch of people what Twitter is "about" to them in one word. A handful of them responded, and here are some of the answers I got:
- Updates
- Egos
- Networking/Networks
- Relationships
- Represent
- Connection
- Possibilities
- Instant
- Marketing
- Speed
- Noise
- Inane
- Communication
- Contrived
- Aggrandizement
- Useful
- Spammy
- Conversation
- Open
- Freedom
- Useless
- Awareness
- Chat
Going into this thing, the word I was clinging to in my mind was microblogging. It has always been described with this word, but what does that mean? Small blogging. To me, Twitter is not a whole lot different than a collection of blogs, only all of the entries are really short (140 characters or less).
Is there a lot of noise? Sure. Could the same thing be said about the Blogosphere? Absolutely. You read blogs because they are written by people who talk about topics you are interested in reading about, or because you're interested in what the blogger has to say because of who they are. The same could be said about Twitter. You follow those whose thoughts you are interested in hearing, whose links you are interested in sharing, whose company's you are interested in staying informed about, etc.
Company Twitter accounts are no different than company blogs for all intents and purposes. The same goes for personal accounts and personal blogs. Do you care what I ate for breakfast? Probably not, but someone might. And I could've just as easily posted the same info on my personal blog. The difference is that on Twitter, I would've got right to the point - I didn't have any breakfast this morning. A blog entry might have taken several paragraphs to explain the reasoning behind this. If these are the only things I blogged about, you'd probably stop reading my blog.
If these are the only things I tweeted about, you'd probably stop following me. If twitter accounts are like blogs, then Twitter is like its own Blogosphere (or microblogosphere) combined with a feed reader. You select the ones you want to follow, just as if you were selecting what blogs to subscribe to.
To me, this is what Twitter is about. That’s not all it’s about, but that’s how I get the most use out of it. That’s probably why I am not an incredibly frequent Twitterer per se. I read Twitter a lot more than I write on Twitter, but that’s still using it. Neville Hobson recently wrote about how Twitter is for listening. For some of us, that is the biggest part of it, but still for others, it’s speaking. We couldn’t listen if nobody was talking.
It is clear that Twitter is about a variety of different things to different people (and nothing to others). One person's microblogging service is another person's networking platform. There is certainly plenty of crossover as well. It doesn't have to be about strictly one thing. It's whatever you want it to be. And if you don't want to use it, nobody's putting a gun to your head (hopefully).
Thank you to all who participated in my little survey. I’m not sure if we’ve helped anyone “get” it or not, but either way it was interesting to see the different words people came up with. Somehow, I didn't get many repeats. Twitter obviously fits different molds for different people. But we already knew that.
Update: Traffic was mentioned by at least one person in the comments of this article, but a number of people have said that they get no extra traffic from Twitter. Jeremy Schoemaker of the famous Shoemoney blog has posted an article about how Twitter is now his second largest source of traffic. He writes:
"Just engaging in the twittosphere has been amazingly rewarding. But if you still “don’t get it” its cool. Less competition."
You can see Schoemaker's analytics chart here.
Got a word for Twitter that's not on the list? Share it with us.
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Monday, 4 May 2009
Pentagon Embraces Facebook, Twitter
Michael Barkoviak - May 3, 2009 4:05 PM
Each branch of the U.S. military continues to try and see how it can embrace Web 2.0
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"They live in the virtual world," Lt. Gen Benjamin Freakley recently said during an interview with the Associated Press. "You could friend your recruiter, and then he could talk to your friends."
At a time when some Americans don't believe mass media in the United States is portraying the correct message about the mission in
The U.S. Air Force currently has an official Twitter account -- with more than 3,300 followers -- it uses to share information about activities of the Air Force. An official Facebook Air Force page has also been created, used to help share experiences and information of Airman deployed overseas.
The Marine Corps has dabbled with Web 2.0 experimentation, although it mainly has been for recruiting only. Both the Navy and Coast Guard are experimenting how to work in the Web 2.0 world, with even the Coast Guard commandant updating his Facebook status while he travels.
The Army, along with its online presence, even opened up a gaming center in the Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia to help attract new recruits. The Army Experience Center is a 14,500-square-foot location that has PCs, game consoles, and a virtual simulation machine.
As more possible recruits head online into the virtual world, expect each branch of the U.S. military to mimic their moves.
Some companies and organizations have been wary to launch official Web 2.0 services, though allowing select executives and employees to handle work-related business online. It's not uncommon to find both employees and executives from companies such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and others sharing information online.
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Twitter's hot, sure, but what does it all mean?
by Peter Ames Carlin, The Oregonian Saturday May 02, 2009, 6:26 AM
I'm sitting in my office listening to R.E.M. and pondering a piece on Twitter. My left leg is crossed over the right at the ankle. Do you care?
That last paragraph contains about 140 characters, which is the most Twitter, the social network system, allows in an entry.
Founded in 2006, Twitter is a free service with about 6 million users. Its monthly growth rate, according to Nielsen, is 1,382 percent.
Or, as we say across all media platforms: Wow.
Did you get that this story will be written in 140-character-or-fewer-chunks? Just like a Tweet, which is what Twitter entries are called.
Many celebrities, politicians and some journalists use Twitter to talk directly, in real time, to their fans/constituents/readers/viewers.
You can Tweet from your computer or your cell phone; some Twitterers go on all day about what they're doing, feeling, musing and eating.
This might be very cool; "the message system we didn't know we need until we had it," according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
Or as Stephen Colbert said to Stone, just stupid; "... like the answer to a problem we didn't know we had until I invented the answer."
No matter, Twitter has supplanted Facebook as the online social networking phenomenon of the moment; the must-have application.
But is perpetual immediacy, and a constant stream of short info-bursts, the best way to describe or experience the world around you?
Or is Twitter the latest and, to put it ironically, greatest step in the stripping of meaning from news, information and social discourse?
K103's John Erickson Twitters to "commiserate" with other pre-dawn DJs, and chat with listeners. "It makes me feel like I have company."
Portland public relations exec Christina Dyrness Williams said Twitter keeps her current on a variety of social and professional levels.
"It's my news wire, my water cooler," said Williams, who works out of her home. "I'd say it's my social life, but that sounds too sad."
Not to Stone and his Twitter co-founders, though. They're already fielding offers from massive companies eager to buy their business.
Which is particularly compelling when you consider that Twitter, for all its millions of users, has no ads and produces no money. Yet.
It is arguably the corporate version of a Tweet: New, flashy, full of potential. And valued more for what it might be than for what it is.
"There's a difference between profit and value," Stone says. "Value to us is a strong, robust, worldwide network that (becomes) part of ..."
"... everyday life for people, organizations and companies." At which point "you have just so many opportunities for generating revenue."
Intriguingly, it takes far more than 140 characters for Stone to explain how Twitter might, someday, make money.
Whatever. For the rest of us it's more interesting to consider Twitter's cultural implications. In other words: To Tweet or not to Tweet?
Instant, widespread communication can be transformative in global hot spots, rallying citizens even in the most repressive societies.
When student photographer James Buck got arrested at a protest in Egypt, his one-word Tweet ("arrested") beamed instantly to friends.
Word moved quickly to the U.S. embassy in Egypt, which intervened with local authorities on Buck's behalf. His next Tweet: "Freed."
Politicians Tweet, too. Barack Obama (or someone on his staff) posted throughout his presidential campaign. That ended when he took office.
Some members of Congress Tweet to keep in touch with their constituents. None of Oregon's reps seem all that into it, though.
Earl Blumenauer posted a lot of bracing insider stuff from the Capitol this winter, but lately took a month-long break from Tweeting, until this week.
The most famous Tweeter these days is TV star-slash-reality-show-producer Ashton Kutcher, who has nearly 1.5 million followers.
Kutcher fought with CNN to top 1 million followers, and won. "We can and will create our media," he said. "We can and will edit our media."
He went on: "We can and will create our media; we can and will edit our media; we can and will censor our own media, ourselves."
Kutcher media ranges from his tasks ("tactical weapons training today,") to beliefs. ("Everyone needs to chill out on the swine flu thing.")
Don't even ask about the Tweets of Kutcher wife Demi Moore, an actress who has also become a fervent Twitterer.
Here Moore is responding to a Tweet posted by singer Fred Durst: "I am loving your love to your lady! It is been felt and shared."
Which is nice, if not quite grammatical. And if Moore's feelings about Durst's feelings for his lady intrigue you, she Tweets regularly.
Still, some Twitterers are smart, funny and readable. Some are people you've heard of (Matthew Perry, for instance). Others are unknown.
Check out http://favrd.textism.com/most to see the day's funniest Tweets. I have no idea who compiles the list, or how, but it's cool.
Sample: "Some people say you have to drink eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy, but I think they're diluting themselves."
That's by a guy named Dan Wineman, from North Carolina.
Twitter may not be the future. It may not even have a future. But it's something. And for now, it's free. Tweet away.
-- Peter Ames Carlin; petercarlin@news.oregonian.com
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Friday, 1 May 2009
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Can Twitter Really Build You Links?
I am going to share with you guys a very well written article by Nick Stamoulis on how you can build links using twitter.
Twitter isn’t a link building service. In fact, aside from the one link you get in your 140-character limit bio, there isn’t a whole lot of potential for building links through Twitter. At least, not directly. However, there are some indirect methods for building links.
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The Twitter Top 140
We're still trying to figure out Twitter, right? I was under the impression that everyone, from the ADHD-addled college student with an account with just one update "I'm using Twitter!" to the company CEO, still doesn't know exactly what to do with it. It's got some use, sure, and it's a wonderful combination of fun and addicting, but at this stage in the game all the celebrities, applications, and memes being nurtured in this social network are far too numerous to name....
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