Is social media just a passing fad? A fad is a trend, like a fashion trend. Will it die? My answer…. NO it won’t “die” and social media is no fad. Social media instead is a foundamental change in how we communicate. It might even change how we communicate in the future too, since we are now being introduce to facebook places. I remember when I first got my mobile phone when I was 13, it was a squarish LG phone and was considered very hip because celebrities was using it on who wants to be a millionaire on malaysian tv. Since then, the number of brands has added and mobile features added and now everyone wants an iphone (I think because everyone has it).
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I was commenting on a blog about social media burnout. It was a blog written by Niall Harbison from Simply Zesty, on the blog I told Niall Harbison that guest posting from great bloggers helped me avoid getting burnout because I get to do other things, concentrate on other stuff like assignments, get time off from blogging and spending more time on my next post. After that Niall told said this to me
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This is a guest post from Standford Smith (@pushingsocial) from Pushing Social. In this post, Standford explain how we can use twitter to get our blog notice most of them even if your blog is new.
There’s a myth that says that you have to slog it out in the blogging trenches for at least a year before you see significant traffic to your blog. To be fair, that may have been the case a few years ago. But now, with Twitter, it’s very possible to launch your blog and attract some crazy traffic within months rather than years.
Now you can jump in the middle of highly targeted conversations, rub elbows with mega-influencers, and watch your posts go viral with a single tweet. You don’t need PPC or a giant email list. All you need is persistence, good manners, and some clever tactics.
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I’ve been working with a client of to build their presence of twitter. They had a brand new twitter account set up and had a few strategies that really worked out well for them. In two weeks time we’ve build up a small interest of people who are currently following them and their blog. So I want to share with you the strategies that worked.
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This is a guest post from from Henry aka @thephattay. He’s fairly new to twitter and he is here today to share the things he notice about twitter and why he find it interesting.. ohh by the way, he’s also my room mate.
A Review about Twitter from the eyes of a beginner
