This past Sunday, I spent some time on a Twitter chat hosted by Mack Collier and Brian Clark.
This one goes by the #blogchat hashtag handle, happens every Sunday night at 5 pm Pacific and brings in some of the best bloggers and social media mentors on a common platform.
Twitter chats can be one of the most invaluable tools in your social media success arsenal – but given their ephemeral nature, the …
There’s a huge plethora of Twitter clients available in the market today – both for tweeting horizontally and vertically.
Each one of these Twitter clients comes with its own merits and handicap – coupled with the challenges and the advantages that the different hardware platforms offer.
I wanted your feedback on how you use Twitter – are you a vertical or horizontal Tweep?
And while we are on the topic, which Twitter clients do you …
A few days ago, Mike Cliffe-Jones had a post on his blog – Why businesses shouldn’t be on Twitter. Of businesses should be, and that is exactly what Mike meant.
The key message that Mike wanted to deliver was:
The thing with Twitter is that it’s so personal, so individual.
Look at some of the other successful Twitter accounts, and you’ll see that there is almost always a person behind the tweets.
I think …
It began with a simple tweet last Friday from Johnny Laird:
In his own words -
Sometimes the 140 characters can’t do it justice, so this is my expanded version….
Johnny followed it up with a blog post with a more detailed write up on who his recommendations for Follow Friday were going to be. I think that’s a neat idea.
A bunch of others who posted comments on Johnny’s post also think that …
Two weeks ago, Twitter launched their official Tweet button. That, in my opinion, was landmark launch – because it fundamentally changes the way we look at Twitter sharing and the numbers that get associated with the tweets. Other applications like TweetMeme and Topsy have been doing this for over an year now, but this change is nevertheless important for the reasons I am going to discuss below.
A few weeks back, I had written a post applauding the next-gen version of HootSuite – HootSuite Rocks: The First Impressions. When I started using HootSuite, it looked like it was bringing a lot of firepower to the world of Twitter tools.
A lot of other social media evangelists had picked up on HootSuite – and were talking about crossing the bridge from their current Twitter tools – over to HootSuite.
Danny Brown was …
The world of social media is ablaze with the new release of HootSuite – a professional Twitter client.
Personally, I have hitherto stayed away from Twitter clients, given that they have been flaky – adding an extra layer of uncertainty to the relatively unstable Twitter. I have used TweetDeck and Seesmic on and off, as well as a bunch of other clients in the past. But every time, I ended up with an abandoned campaign …
In part I of this post, you saw the first three faces of Twitter. This post continues that journey and winds up with thoughts on making the most of your Twitter time.
Part I of this post can be read at: http://www.socialmedianotebook.com/twitter/the-5-faces-of-twitter-the-honey-trap-and-the-reward/
PR, Marketing, Branding And Brand You
The fourth important and relevant dimension of Twitter is using it as a powerful PR, marketing and branding tool for the most important brand in the world …
Twitter is here to stay. That’s an undeniable truth of social media success. Never before have we seen a platform that has offered a wide plethora of creative options as Twitter.
And a lot of folks are putting Twitter to a large variety of uses – including some very profitable ones.
Do you already have a Twitter account? I am assuming you do. And if you don’t happen to have a Twitter account, now would …
