This is a short opinion piece but I'd like to hear your thoughts. Twitter is rolling out (slowly) an update that will double the size of a tweet from 140 to 280 characters. I asked on Twitter and Facebook if that will make a difference in how they use the …
How to verify your website and setup Twitter Analytics
There's a buzz on the twitter right now about verifying your website and setting up Twitter Analytics. I did a quick search for a how to and realized well, there isn't a how to (yet). So heres your How To: How to verify your website and setup Twitter Analytics! You'll need to …
Twitter Advertising hits the masses
By masses, I mean you and me. My account (one of them) was just enabled for Twitter Advertising. What is that? In the video they show how I can pay to attract the 'right' followers, or I can pay to 'promote certain tweets'. Followers? I already have 13 thousand I don't know and probably …
How to Add someone to a Twitter List
I woke up this morning to a tweet from my friend Ken who asked He knows I use LISTS for most all my social media accounts and when it comes to Twitter, I prefer a Twitter Client and in particular I’ve been a big fan of Seesmic for a long time. While I follow 14 thousand people, I certainly …
Linkedin to disable Tweets
Just received from my inbox, the following email… Update about the Tweets application on LinkedIn And I couldn’t agree more. Automatically sending all your tweets to your Linkedin stream was and is a bad idea. It’s just noise and you are adding to it. It’s not going to get rid of all of …
The ONE reason I’m keeping my Klout
If you are not familiar with Klout and the issues being discussed right now let me see if I can boil it down to a simple paragraph. Klout is a for profit company. They look at a social media user and by use of some analytics, they give that user a numerical score. They go further and generate a …
Your Twitter Account is sending out bad DMs
I’ve seen quite a few people lately who have had their twitter account ‘hacked’ and it’s now sending out spam dm messages. Things like you would never say, like “lmao...omg i am laughing so hard at this pic of you u i just found” with a link. If I click on that link it’ll start the ball …
Making a +K difference
You might have noticed a few tweets in your stream announcing that one person has given a +K to another person. What’s a +K? Think of it as a way of giving Props to someone else. If you have a Klout score anyone can give you a +K on any of the topics Klout seems to think you know …
Twitter’s new Follow Button
Saw the news… Twitter has a new Follow Button. Here it is. Follow @MikeMueller Here's one for an account I just setup: Follow @DaHomeSkillet Whoopty Do? That’s what I thought too. …
Follow all the Twits from REBarCamp/Orlando
Did you attend REBarcamp Orlando today? Just new to twitter? Good for you! Here’s a quick and easy way to follow everyone who registered for the event with a twitter account. Just go to this list, scroll to the bottom, sign in (with twitter oAuth) and you’ll add each one of those checked boxes …