We have the means now to deliver the right message at the right time to the right people. This discipline comes, not out of the traditional communication director’s toolkit, but from the world of telecommunications engineering – we apply the same sorts of congestion control and capacity planning to Twitter that a regional phone company [...]
Confused.com argues that social media services like Foursquare and Buzz can increase the risk of theft by alerting burglars to times when people are out of their homes, thus leading to home insurance hikes. Confused.com isn’t alone in worrying about the ‘dark side’ of status updates. As we wrote last week, the site ‘PleaseRobMe.com’ was [...]
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Since Twitter Lists are new, the etiquette of whether or not you thank someone if they add you to the list has yet to be determined. I suppose it is similar to a ReTweet or a #FollowFriday, but then again people could add you to a list just so that you notice them or follow [...]
Retweets, in my opinion, are one of the most sincere forms of recognition and validation, empowering users to pay it forward through the recognition of noteworthy content. According to Dan, retweets also serve as the foundation for assessing the qualities of viral content, “You don’t spread ideas just because they are “good;” you spread them [...]
Twitter, with a high concentration of bloggers and journalists using it, more often than not acts as a bridge to other media. According to Chitika, “From being the first to publish pictures of a Turkish Airlines plane crash to the social network’s breaking of US Airways Flight 1549′s dramatic crash into the Hudson River earlier [...]
The tool TPS stands for Tweet Positioning System offers you the ability to filter Twitter conversations based on geography so you can zone in on trending topics or hot issues at a more local level. All you do is search for your topic let’s say, “swine flu” and you can see where conversations are happening [...]
Here are five tips for those of you looking to use Twitter as a DIY promotional vehicle: 1. You should have at least two, preferably three twitter accounts you can sign into and back out of before bothering with http://cotweet.com 2. You should have a couple hundred followers before toying with http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ 3. You should [...]
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