We all knew that Twitter is about to launch its redesigned home page. But we didn’t expect it to be this fast and neither did we expect that it will do it this way. If you sign out of your Twitter account, you will see the new Twitter home page with the sleeker design and …
Last week we reviewed a new smart Twitter monetization service called TweetROI. This week we are discussing it with one of the creators, our very talented guest contributor, Brian Carter: How long did it take you to brainstorm the concept? The initial idea came in a flash, back in December 2008: “Word of mouth advertising …
According to Wikipedia, “customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase”. To prove how current they are, small companies and big brands alike are diving headfirst into Twitterville, but not always with the entire process of customer service in mind. In the past, I’ve discussed the importance of …
There is a new Twitter app that has a fresh approach to Twitter social networking. It is called Twitroduce. It has been described as a service that formalizes #FollowFriday, except for it makes sense every day of the week. You know #FollowFriday or #ff, the popular hash tag to use on Friday’s where you recommend …
I have always been a huge fan of RSS. More specifically, I have been a fan of XML. Quite a few of the projects I have worked on past and present have utilized XML to standardize data. RSS really is just a specific type of standardized XML. The purpose of RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, …
Flickr has just introduced a new feature that it should have done long ago – Flickr2Twitter. If you use Flickr, this new feature would allow you to post uploaded photos directly from your Flickr to your Twitter account. Flickr2Twitter will create a shortened URL for your photo and post this as Tweet to your Twitter …
Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and reading a book written in another language. When Twitter hit the big time, just a couple months before the landmark “@oprah” show, all of the trending topics on Twitter were …
The future in search appears to be how real-time data is going to be accessed by users. Twitter is at the forefront of this with its enormous feed of status updates from its users. As we speak, the data is being parsed by hundreds of websites that use the Twitter API. This data is manipulated …
Although Twitter’s search market share is not significant enough compared to other search engine, it is still interesting to know that gradually Twitter search is becoming a real-time web search engine. After all, the Twitter Public timeline is part of the web. So, it is but logical that searches conducted on Twitter search should also …
There are many tools that help you find more friends on Twitter and build strong relationships. Searching for friends based on a keyword has a couple of essential benefits: You have good chances to be followed back; You will get a new strong resource of relevant news in your Twitter stream. Twitterel is a nice …
