Follow Fridays on twitter is getting a little crowded with people recommending in bulks without any reason why one should follow them. I did a post about how to do a proper follow friday on twitter. Which taught people about doing follow fridays the right way. Of course one can follow that method but the reason for this post is about turning follow friday into smiles while getting traffic and retweets. Its the four in one kind of post that you can use every friday. When you recommend someone on twitter, it makes people feel good. Problem is, it is getting too crowded. My solution is to recommend great twitterers on blog instead. It solves the problem and stands out more than normal follow friday tweets. It gets out of the 140 limit characters as well. So here are 10 people that you … [Read more...] about Turn Follow Friday Into Smiles and Blog Traffic
It’s Official: People Don’t Get Twitter
Yes it's official! People don't get twitter, proven by Google. Same thing happened when a few of my friends started to tweet. They registered an account, send out a few tweets and stopped there. Then few of them told me that they don't get twitter and asked me what is the point of twitter. … [Read more...] about It’s Official: People Don’t Get Twitter
More Information On Twitter’s Ad Platform
Twitter is going to launched its long waited advertising platform that I know up to today a lot of people still feel that it is going to be annoying. I'm seeing this as a great opportunity for twitter since many people are saying "Twitter is not making money yet". They will be launching their advertising platform on Tuesday. The ad platform is called “Promoted Tweets” and I thought it was going to sound cool like google adwords. The ads will roll out Tuesday afternoon. Here is how the advertising platform works: … [Read more...] about More Information On Twitter’s Ad Platform
How To: Delete or Remove a Facebook Application
There are tons of applications on Facebook that you might have given access to use your data. We will never know if some of these might be spamming others. In such cases, it is better for us to remove them from our Facebook profile. Below is an example on how it all starts. … [Read more...] about How To: Delete or Remove a Facebook Application
Tweets For Sale? You Gotta Be Kidding Me
Just when I thought I saw everything when I read about people buying followers on ebay, today I saw something new. Tweets for sale! Yes! People are selling tweets. I am not going to mention about the website here though. Apparently the website is selling tweets price ranging from $10 to $30 depending on how many tweets and type of tweets. You can buy 500 Gambling Tweets for just $10.00, or buy 4800 Inspirational Tweets for $10.00. … [Read more...] about Tweets For Sale? You Gotta Be Kidding Me
4 Social Media 101 Videos
Thank you to Willis Wee, author from Penn Olson for his contribution to this interesting blog post about social media 101. Follow @williswee for more social media and marketing snippets Are you on Facebook or Twitter? Do you have a blog? If you’re reading this you probably are already on these platforms. But there is still a majority of people that aren’t. As more tools and features are introduced along the way, the learning curve steepens. Regardless what it is, the fundamental remains intact and is highlighted by the videos below. Watching them could help you in 3 ways: … [Read more...] about 4 Social Media 101 Videos