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…
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.
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?
Coming late to the iPhone I am just starting to explore what Twitter Apps work best for it.
I started out by downloading my beloved Tweedeck for the iPhone. We did not get on. It's not intuitive to use, in fact I am not sure if I did use it at all for three weeks although I tried too.
Columns wouldn't update and generally a clunky feel that I didnt feel comfortable with.
This saddened me as I love Tweetdeck and it's my app of choice for my PC.
Being as a friend calls me, a pioneer, I love finding things and trying them (trying in every sense of the word!).
One of my latest finds has thrilled me no end 
It's here, http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com/
This nifty little gadget enables you to experiment with having a 'branded' twitter background. Yup a background that matches all your over stuff
Research has shown having consistent branding across various social media platforms and apps increases recognition of the brand. Even if the brand is just you.
I’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it
Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.
And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan
A Guest Blog By Christopher Sherrod.
In the early days of Twitter you could do anything and get away with it. Well, not anymore. Twitter has gotten pretty aggressive about certain techniques to get large number of followers.
I talked to consulting client of mine that bought a course on twitter (not mine). And his twitter account was suspended permanently.
So I asked him some questions on how he used twitter.
What I learned clearly shows why his account was suspended permanently.
Some Automation Is Not Good
A Guest Blog by Mark Aselstine of Uncorked Ventures Wine Clubs
“Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting using Twitter as a way to help my business during these very early days, I believe I’ve found a couple of very basic insights which may help others use Twitter more effectively for their business.
Last week, Google started rolling out a new feature to Gmail users…Google Buzz. For now, those using Google Apps to manage their domain’s email miss out on Buzz, but Google have promised that they will be enabled in due course. Buzz is Google’s first serious entry into the social networking space, aimed squarely at the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Whilst Google have long been expected to expand into this area, Buzz ended up sneaking in under the radar somewhat, perhaps because Google didn’t want another high-profile damp squib on their hands (remember Wave)? But you can be sure that Google is serious about Buzz, and sees it as a core part of it’s future strategy.
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