How to enjoy Twitter? Its really quite simple – just ignore everything the “Twitter Gurus” tell you. Ignore the online marketers and social media experts, and start enjoying Twitter again. Don’t Auto-Follow Everyone That Follows You Don’t autofollow unless you enjoy reading spam (Do you Chris Brogan?). The people you will end up following will [...]
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Whats Wrong with the New FriendFeed
Everybody seems to be singing praises about the new FriendFeed design that was switched from beta to “all users” without any warning. I don’t like the new design – they got it wrong. And heres why: No Feed Icons I can understand why they did remove the icons that tell you where an item of [...]
Let the Twitter Hating Begin
So Twitter is now the “biggest” thing on the intertubes at the moment. And unsuprisingly bloggers have resorted to their usual habits on “hating” whatever, no matter what, the big thing is. Looking through my Friendfeed I counted three negative blog posts about Twitter – not about its downtime, or lack of features – but [...]
Daily Twitter Tips – My New Project
I wanted to do something like this for ages – but I have only finally got around to doing it! Tweetgain.com is updated daily with Twitter tips, advice, tools, apps and more. A Little Background Writing for iDezy, a web worker resource blog, I was inundated with links to Twitter apps and tools. It seems [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Auto-Tweet
Auto-Tweeting is where you either set up your Twitter account to automatically post every new item on your blog or where you preschedule tweets to go out at a certain time. This sounds like it could save you a lot of time and improve your social media visability. However, if you are putting your Twitter [...]
20 Ways to get More Twitter Followers
I spent an hour or so brainstorming the top 20 ways you can get twitter followers. The finished post was done over on iDezy. Check it Out btw. What methods do you use for gaining new Twitter followers.
Why the Recent Twitter Phishing Will Hurt Developers
And what Twitter needs to do Twitter is built off the back of a huge community of developers who have created Twitter apps for pretty much every platform. And don’t forget all the spin-off apps such as Twit-Pic, Tweetburner etc. which add great features to the popular micro-blogging platform. But as a developer of a [...]
Twitter Predictions For 2009
Photo Credit – niallkennedy So what will the new year bring for Twitter? There has been plenty of speculation around the blogs and on FriendFeed as to the future of Twitter so I thought I would give a brief wrap-up of some of the speculation with a few of my own predictions thrown into the [...]
