Tag: Twitter

Twicco.jp is a group and community feature for Twitter (currently available only in Japan). In Loic Le Meur’s demo video, you can see it lets users create and follow a group instead of an individual account. Twitter Japan, a joint venture with Digital Garage, was already differentiating itself from the US version with ads in the feeds and therefore a monetization option right from the beginning.

In Twicco, groups are called communities. You can create your own “community” by:...

If you want to have an RSS feed automatically tweeted to your Twitter account as it is published you can use a service called TwitterFeed to do this. It allows you to customize how often to post on your behalf.

Twitter is a great resource to get extra traffic by posting all the RSS feed inside in just one click if you are a blog owner, or just to get more Twitter followers by twitting the RSS feed from popular blogs. To tweet RSS feed we will need the feed RSS Twitter tool, feed RSS Twitter is a beta version, and, feed RSS Twitter tool tweets from any WordPress RSS, feed RSS twittering tool does not support FeedBurner and other RSS grabbers feed, it tweets only originally syndicated RSS. So you can browse the web for your niche, for example, if you are twittering regularly about SEO, or you are promoting SEO products, you can search in google “SEO blog”, find their RSS URL ( http://someblog.com/feed or click on subscribe to full RSS feeds icon ), check out that RSS has original domain and not FeedBurner and another grabber, RSS URL should start with http://someblog.com, and not http://feedburner.bla.com...

Finding people that use Twitter who are interested in your niche is actually quite easy. You just have to get a little creative with a Twitter Search Engine. Simply enter some keywords related to your niche, focusing especially on current hot topics or trends. The search engine will bring back all recent tweets containing those terms then all you need to do is look at the tweet and if it looks relevant click through to the user profile to see what other things that user tweets about.

For example, to find people in this niche I searched for things such as thirty-day challenge, blog mastermind, affiliate marketing, and so on....

You can not organize your Twitter followers from Twitter. There is a utility called CrowdStatus that allows you to categorize your Twitter followers into crowds so you could have a crowd for work colleagues, another for family, and so on. It then displays tweets neatly grouped into their crowds.

Here are some tools to help you investigate your tweeps and make an informed decision about whether to keep following them....

It’s always nice to know when people are talking about you. On the web and in the blogosphere you can set up a Google alert but that does not cover Twitter.

There is a service called Twilert which acts just like Google alerts but for Twitter. Setup alerts on your name, brand, products, or whatever, and you will be notified by email when these terms are tweeted....

There are lots of ways. First, if you have a web presence such as a website or blog, make sure you advertise your Twitter profile prominently. This can just be a plain text link as I use in my sidebar. For WordPress blogs, you can take this a step further and use a widget to display your latest tweets.

If you don’t have a web presence, try some blog commenting but use your Twitter Profile as your link. Also, insert your link into email or forum signatures if you use those. Another way to pick up a few followers is to just follow other people in your chosen area of interest....

Yes! There is a little trash can icon to the right of your tweet once it’s in the feed. You can also favorite your tweets via the star icon....

If you need to change your Twitter username, you can do so by visiting your Twitter account Settings page and entering a new username in the Username box. Keep in mind, a Twitter username can only be 15 characters in length and cannot contain spaces.

1. Log in to your new account at Twitter.com/cavsi and change the username to /cavsi1...

One reliable source for the number of Twitter users is Twitdir. TwitDir is a Twitter users (some call them twitterers) directory.

Twitdir reports the number of Twitter users is well over one million. As TwitDir is only capable of detecting Twitter users with a public profile, this number is underestimated as to the total number of Twitter users....

Twitter Retweet (abbreviated as RT) is when you read a tweet in someone else’s Twitter stream, if you like what that person says, you can share that tweet with more people.

To do so, simply copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the original person, users usually put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Here’s an example:...

Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006) by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third-party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks....

Tweeting is for the website twitter.com. It is a very popular website. When you “tweet” on Twitter you are simply updating what you are doing which can be helpful to friends, family, and even co-workers.
Tweeting is what you write what you are doing in the box. Just like when you talk; you are talking.

When a Twitter user posts an update to their Twitter account, that update is often referred to as a “tweet” and the user is said to have “tweeted”. A tweet can be used as a noun, referring to the actually written update, or a verb, referring to the action of publishing an update....

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS), or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees....