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How to get more twitter followers

July 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

It shouldn’t be the be all and end all of Twitter, but lots of people are focused on getting as many people to follow them as possible.

Personally I would rather have a few people really interested in what I have to share than thousands who are just following me in the hope I will follow them back.

But people like Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble have thousands of followers seriously interested in what they have to say – what’s not to like about that?

The fabulous doshdosh has a post today on how to get more twitter followers.

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The Twitter Influence Ratio

July 21, 2008 By 3 Comments

Great post from Allan Young with his thoughts on ‘The Twitter Influence Ratio’ or how you can decide whether someone is following based on the number of people they follow and the number of people that follow them.

Here’s an excerpt (accordign to this we have a Twitter Influence Ratio of 1.41 – we’re not sure if that makes us worth following or not!:

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Twitter can help you to learn to speed read?

July 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Yes, according to Steveswrong on his Right to be Wrong blog.

I have to say, he has a point – we must be reading quicker, what with scanning all those 140 character messages; even more so if you’re using something such as Twhirl or Tweetdeck and have lots of people to follow.

We haven’t tested his claim that Twitter has helped him to read at 7 words per second, but we’re not going to doubt it!

You can follow Steve on Twitter.

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Repost: Twitter faces the gallows by limiting unauthenticated API requests

July 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Great post by TK Kirchner over on Blorge regarding Twitter shooting itself in the foot by limiting API requests.

Rather than rehash it, I’m posting the first paragraph here and you can click over to Blorge to read the rest.

Twitter faces the gallows by limiting unauthenticated API requests Twitter has been trying to stay afloat in the mist of overwhelming traffic for quite some time now. They’ve disabled features, like reply tabs and instant messages, and even tried to reduce authenticated API requests, from unlimited to 70 to 20 and back up to 100. Now, they’re placing a limit on unauthenticated API requests, moving it down to 100 requests per hour per IP address. Developers are already complaining that such move is going to cause serious problems for their businesses and, in effect, cause problems for Twitter.

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A million ways to search Twitter, Olympic updates, iPhone apps and more

July 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Morning campers, another round up commences, another day begins.

  • Not strictly about Twitter, but I like this post on Hotels and Social networks from Chris Brogan – Twitter could be great for meeting up with other delegates and guests in a hotel – although it is probably open to misuse….
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Twitter: spammers, wine tasting, iPhone and more!

July 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

The Twitter news is coming in fast and furiously – here’s our round up of the past few hours:

  • Shamus echos my own sentiments on those twitter spammers – just exactly HOW do they get so many followers? I know some people will have accounts set to auto follow, but even so….
  • Tweet2Win is a service that basically seems to want you to promote it for the chance to win prizes. On first glance it looks predominantly American, and I’m not sure I understand the point of it, but as loads of you have sent me the link I thought I should check it out!
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Prepopulate your Twitter links

July 14, 2008 By 3 Comments

Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:

To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere

Like this – tell people about 299 Steps to Website Heaven being FREE for one day by clicking this Twitter link

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Andrew Grill is using Twitter for business – are you?

June 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Like many people that hear of Twitter, at first Andrew thought of it as a waste of time, and wondered what all the fuss was about.

But, give him his due, he signed up and gave it a go, wanting to (in his words) ‘walk the talk’.

His blog today shows that 6 months on, he’s certainly glad he did!

He says:

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Best practice for Twitter – make it work for you

June 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Great article from David Lee King here about Twitter best practices and how to NOT seem like a complete newbie!

A lot of it is plain common sense, but in easy to read bullet points and with clear explanations.

Rather than rewrite the whole thing, I’ll put his basic bullet points below and you can read the full article on his site. He’s taken the time to write it – he deserves the traffic!

Twitter Best Practices:

1. Have a bio.

2. Extra links in your bio.

3. Spell check your bio text.

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Learn Spanish, Italian, German – with Twitter!

June 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

For those that say Twitter is a waste of time, has no value and will never be useful, I give you….. Twitterlearn!

They say:

Each of the series are linked to our podcasts and the content being tested in the regular quizzes is based on the content of our podcasts. In most cases the quiz will feature a phrase or series of words to be translated into the foreign language. By clicking on the link published with each ‘tweet’ you will be able to check your answer on the website.

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