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Social Media

How to spot a Twitter spammer

by Stephen on February 19, 2010

A friend of mine recently set up a Twitter account to help promote his new blog. Within minutes of the account being created he had 45 followers. He was so pleased with this reponse he called me up to tell me about it. I had a look at the list of followers and noticed there [...]

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275 Twitter apps – something to do just about anything on Twitter.

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Twitter Fail Whale – in Lego

by Stephen on March 30, 2009

The Twitter Fail Whale has become a familiar image to all users of Twitter; it pops up when the Twitter system experiences by a period of downtime or a system hiccup.
A new version of the image has now appeared on flickr, this time made from Lego!
The Lego version of the now iconic Fail Whale image [...]

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Twitbin – A neat Firefox plugin for Twitter

by Stephen on March 26, 2009

Twitbin Screencast from brbreslin on Vimeo.
Twitbin is a Firefox plugin I have had installed for a while. I haven’t used it in ages and I had forgotten all about it until I noticed the little icon in the bottom right hand corner of my browser. I clicked the icon to see what it was for [...]

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Twitter and the world of search

by Stephen on February 23, 2009

If you are fairly new to Twitter you could be forgiven for being unaware of its search function. Bizarrely, the link to the search area is placed at the bottom of the page with all the legal and development stuff. Maybe this is an intentional move; allowing nosey parkers to try out the search system [...]

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Happy Birthday to flickr

by Stephen on February 11, 2009

Photo : Bopuc
flickr was five yesterday and, even though I am a day late, I would like to wish the site all the best! The photo you see at the top of the article features Ben, Stewart and Eric, the guys behind flickr. The photo was taken at the ETech launch during the “Virtual Worlds, [...]

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TwitterHawk is a new advertising service aimed at Twitter users.
The service allows you to engage in extremely targeted marketing campaigns by sending tweets to people who may be interested in your product or service. In its simplest form, it works by locating tweets which include your chosen keyword or keyword phrases and then sends the [...]

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Why I love StumbleUpon!

by Stephen on February 11, 2009

StumbleUpon is my favourite way to find new websites. It is much better than Google (or any other search engine) at delivering something unusual because a) most of the great sites I find at StumbleUpon have never heard of SEO b) most of the great sites I find at StumbleUpon are built using flash (which [...]

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Twitter has gone mainstream

by Stephen on February 4, 2009

Smashing Magazine is today talking about Twitter and the mainstream path it is now on. Here in the UK, during the past few weeks, I have noticed many more mentions of Twitter on media outlets such as the BBC, and in particular Radio Five Live,  thus confirming the path from obscure to mainstream is indeed [...]

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StumbleUpon can be a great source of traffic for many websites, but it can also have the opposite effect and not send any, or very little traffic your way. It all depends on how you, and the people who vote up your content use it.
There is no doubt that many webmasters and bloggers will submit [...]

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What exactly is Twitter?

by Stephen on December 19, 2008

The basic premise of Twitter is to tell other people what you are doing right now in 140 characters or less; kind of like an online text message. The message, or tweet, is available for everyone to see through the public timeline or through delivery to the timeline of the members who are following you.
The [...]

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UK Politicians Get Tweeted!

by Stephen on December 19, 2008

Looks like everybody is having a bit of Twitter these days!
Tweetminster is the latest spin off to adopt the Twitter platform and is providing a space for people to communicate directly with UK politicians.

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StumbleUpon! is one of my favourite websites.
It works by people voting and recommending websites they “stumble upon” by clicking on an icon on the StumbleUpon! toolbar. Newly Stumbled pages (rather than sites) will be given high priority and will be frequently delivered to StumbleUpon! users over a fairly short period of time.
To gauge the likability [...]

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Like Twitter but With More Characters – Twitblogs

by Stephen on December 18, 2008

Twitter is currently the talk of the internet for those in the know, but the limit of 140 characters per tweet can be a little restrictive for some people.
As an extension to the Twitter format, Twitblogs has just launched (Twitblogs is not affiliated in any way with Twitter). You can log into Twitblogs using [...]

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Is There a Best Time to Tweet?

by Stephen on October 21, 2008

If you work the same hours every day and use Twitter to promote your business/website/blog, could you be missing out on a ton of potential traffic because you are not Tweeting at the best time for you?
People use Twitter in many different ways and you may never see a Tweet from someone you follow (and [...]

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Peeps at Work – Twitter Down for Maintenance

by Stephen on October 7, 2008

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BigSpy is a nice feature at Digg. It allows the user to view new, popular or upcoming stories on one screen, kind of like a scrolling ticker that presents headlines in a very fluid manner. The background page colour is black and the text is white, next to each headline is a number. This number [...]

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Ziggs – taken for a test drive

by Stephen on September 30, 2008

Ziggs helps you to “organize and connect with people in a professional way” and is “your one-stop source for building your online brand, marketing yourself on the web and simplifying communications with people.”
Registration is free and straight forward, the usual information is required – name, gender, company, location, email address etc.
When your account has been [...]

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Social media is everywhere these days. Everyday I get a Facebook friend invite, Linkedin request, classmates update, and it goes on and on. It is an overwhelming experience to keep up with everything. And sometimes, when I get frustrated…

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