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You should be using Tweetdeck if you want to make sense of Twitter!

Date: 20th November 2008
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Blogging, twitter

Having spoken to lots of people about Twitter, I realise that the first impression most people get is of the Twitter website.

If they’ve spoken to someone like me, they’ll have probably looked at my Twitter page, realised how confusing it looks and gone away pretty quickly.

“I don’t get it” they say … “It’s all messy” they say…. “It makes no sense” they say – and do you know what? They’re right!

I don’t understand how anyone manages to cope with Twitter – especially if they ‘follow’ more than a handful of people.

You’re no-one if you’re not on Twitter

Date: 8th September 2008
Comments: 2 Related Categories: twitter

Thanks to the fab The Next Web for bringing a smile to my face this morning with this great audio file: http://www.ihatemornings.com/audio/5090-14-youre-no-one-if-youre-not-on-twitter.mp3

The songwriter’s website is here.

Lyrics:

You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter
And if you aren’t there already you’ve missed it
If you haven’t been bookmarked, retweeted and blogged
You might as well not have existed

In the old days it was all about achievements
Collecting all your trophies in a shrine
Then everybody came across the internet
And suddenly you had to be online

GetClicky – a God among webstats providers


For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients – and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures – everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats – I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Date: 15th July 2008
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Articles, Blogging, Social Networking, twitter

Fantastic post from Chris Brogan on using Social Media to improve your marketing:

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

  1. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing.
  2. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques.
  3. For every video project purchased, ensure there’s an embeddable web version for improved sharing.
  4. Learn how tagging and other metadata improve your ability to search and measure the spread of information.
  5. Create informational podcasts about a product’s overall space, not just the product.

Prepopulating a Tweet message?

Date: 14th July 2008
Comments: 5 Related Categories: Cool Tools, twitter

Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:

To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere

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