More Dismay for Twitter Trending Topics
More Dismay for Twitter...
Has Twitter trending topics gotten too spammy? It’s a question we’ve needed to address since the moment Twitter introduced trending topics, which were once relegated to Twitter’s search page and now display on all public Twitter pages. But a recent incident with...
3 Reasons Trending Topics are Useless, and How Twitter Can Stop Spam
3 Reasons Trending Topi...
This post was written by Matthew Kraft (@MKraft), who spends entirely too much time online. One of these days that will pay off, as will all those years he spent reading obscure literature in grad school. Last week I was researching Swine Flu/H1N1 for a client, using Twitter. The...
Will the iPhone 3G S Inspire Twitter on the Video Front?
Will the iPhone 3G S In...
With all the Apple announcements this week coming from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, there are bound to be a lot of expectations swirling around the new iPhone 3G S. The most anticipated feature of the new generation of the iPhone is the support of video sending options...
Twitter Favorites a Delicious Killer?
Twitter Favorites a Del...
How do you use Twitter? It seems to me the majority use it to send snippets of conversation to their followers, mini-updates of what they’re doing, or to share their recent blog posts or links they find interesting. You send @ replies, DMs, and RT’s. You’ve learned...
Twitter: Sell or Get Off the Pot?
Twitter: Sell or Get Of...
Twitter raised another $35 million in a Series C round of funding last week, with a not-yet-needed infusion of cash from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. But that’s not all. Previous investors Union Square and Spark also increased their existing investments,...
Leveraging One Twitter ...
If you’ve gained traction with one Twitter account, you should think about leveraging that traction to promote another Twitter profile.  It’s along the same lines of driving traffic across the web, just slightly more internal given both sites are within the Twitter microblogging...
When Twitter Users Are Too Special to Follow Anyone Else.
When Twitter Users Are ...
Do you ever come across those Twitter profiles where the user has hundreds or even thousands of followers, yet they’re not following anyone else? It seems a little odd, or maybe a little mean-spirited. But What’s it really mean? It means they’re influential. ...
A great idea: Video greet new followers.
A great idea: Video gre...
We’ve been getting a good number of follows at http://twitter.com/msocialm and following them right back since we launched The Twitter Survival Guide, but here’s one that’s just an awesome idea I had to share: Video greet new followers.