A guest post by @saraharrow:
Recently there have been some changes to search engines that mean I am falling out of love with Twitter.
When I signed up to Twitter in 2008, it was just about to go mainstream. It was smaller, less busy and more focused on relationship building and getting to know the person.
Slowly but surely the 'rules' have started to appear, tweet what you eat, don't tweet what you eat, do this, do that, automate this, don't automate that…
When Alex R, the developer of TopyTalk.com aproached us with details of his new app, we asked him to tell you about it in his own words – and here they are!
Topytalk is a Twitter talk-oriented timeline.
Since its beginning Twitter has focused on the one-directional message flow. The idea was to follow someone for news, personal updates and – added later – retweets. But in the world of human interactions it is quite natura to be curious about what others talk about and especially to be interested in the conversations among the people you follow. Twitter provides no facility for that.
This is a question I get asked a lot, so I was thrilled to receive a notification by email this weekend that Tweetreports now offers this functionality.
Now, with just a few clicks you can search and follow updates posted by your followers, people you’re following, or both. So watch the video to see how our In-Network (search within) feature works.
Their video (reproduced below) shows you how, and you can visit their website at www.tweetreports.com to find out more about their full product, which offers a whole host of useful features.
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How long have you been on Twitter?
I have been on Twitter now for around 15 months and loving it!
How many people follow you?
At the moment – around 1500 plus
How many people do you follow?
Erm, around 1400 plus.
What made you sign up to Twitter?
I had heard lots of people talking about it on the radio and tv so my initial reason was curiosity, then I realised it could be good for the business too.
How often do you ‘Tweet’?
A few times a day.
This was going to be the first real internet election and but for the phenomenal impact of the televised leadership debates it would certainly had an vital PR role for the parties and their candidates.
Had the agenda not been set by the televised debates and subsequent eruption of online and offline coverage and speculation focused on that, what would have happened? In some ways the focus has actually stifled and smothered some of the social media commentary that was eagerly anticipated, which may actually have saved a few red faces.
Everyone knows my thoughts on Follow Friday by now – simple lists of names don't do it for me and I never follow anyone from those lists. Give me a REASON to follow someone and I'll consider it! Which is why I tend to put my FFs in a blog post such as this one!
This week's FFs are all NikkiPilkington.com clients – some are new, some long term, but they're all people we love working with.
Those immortal words were uttered by David Prescott, son of John, in response to his dad retweeting a suggestion to click a link, find a Conservative party Google Pay Per Click ad and then click it to remove "50p from the Tories' war chest".
Obviously JP has a fair idea of how social media works and by doing so he was helping empty the Tories coffers. His son down playing it and saying it was "only" a retweet was trying to throw the less social media savvy off the scent, and they were probably reading a report about it in their newspaper. Their audience had no idea the power of a retweet to nearly 18,000 people. Their audience was traditional media readers and they were belittling a tweet. If it means that little, why have a presence at all Mr Prescott?
Are you a Printer, Printing Company or Print Broker? Are you on Twitter? Then we want you to add yourself to our list below!
We’re looking to build up a list of printing related companies who have a presence on Twitter, so please post in the comments below:
We’ve already started a list of PR experts, Copywriters and B2B Marketing companies, and have further lists planned in the future, so if you’re a printing company on Twitter and would like to be on the list, please post below!
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