They just tweeted this: “RT @garymccaffrey has a crazy idea. 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days? Check it out http://tweetergetter.com @username” Their profile links to a Squidoo page Their profile links to a landing page They’re following 4,000 people, but only 5 people follow … Read More
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A trend happening in the social space a lot these days is the use of your latest post to Twitter to be used as your Facebook status, and nothing could be driving me crazier. Why is this happening? Are people really that lazy? Not understanding … Read More
Delicious is well known for playing around with their nofollow policy. One of the more recent nofollow discoveries occurred when they relaunched their new design. For example, when you visit a user’s bookmark page (http://delicious.com/username) it defaults to the “Regular View”. However, if you clicked … Read More
It all started with a tweet that said: Don’t click http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 If you click on the link it takes you to a white page with a button that says “Don’t Click.” And if you’re like me, you’ll click it and nothing happens. However, something does … Read More
As far as social media tools go, Twitter is easily my favorite. While I am by no means an expert (I’m not a fan of people calling themselves an expert at anything, even Tiger Woods), I’ve been around the Twitter block so to speak. A … Read More
Twitter is notorious for having their servers go down and for having a limited feature set. So how in the world did they outlast Pownce and drive them to their extinction? Pownce had everything going for it. It had a slicker UI, an AIR app, … Read More
Using Twitter — and I mean really using Twitter — the past few months has been an eye-opening experience. I started to appreciate it the most when I saw how powerful Twitter could be at conferences. Both the leads and true friendships I’ve gained through … Read More
Yesterday on Twitter, my buddy Paul (known on Twitter as pwnicholson) posted the following, with 66 characters to spare! Think Twitter isn’t for business? — Dell has made $1mil through Twitter. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Twitter is the relatively new internet phenomenon … Read More
One thing that really gets me going in the morning is the potential of web 2.0 and social networking to harness community not only on the web, but offline as well. Social networking, or what we in the office refer to as social media, is … Read More
Ever since we introduced TweetStalk, there has been a modest rumbling of outrage over what people think it stands for, or what it will ultimately do to Twitter. Meanwhile, on the other side of the geek spectrum, we’ve read a spatter of comments about how … Read More