Since opening an account in summer 2010, Kanye West has become notorious for using Twitter as his megaphone to the public. The famously egomaniacal rapper has been a longtime blogger, but only began tweeting about two months ago. Since then, he’s amassed a following of close to 1.5 million. With over 1,000 tweets in such [...]
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MANAGE CONTRIBUTORS WITH TWITTER’S NEW BUSINESS FEATURE
Last week, Twitter revealed a new service for businesses – a feature that allows them to assign and manage multiple contributors under one account. Primary account holders can grant access to multiple users, which permits those users to post tweets on that company’s behalf. A link to the author is then included in the byline [...]
THE NEW FACE OF TWITTER
Yesterday, Twitter unveiled its brand new home screen, and it seems as if they are well on their way to changing the page’s focus from a social networking tool to the prime source for keeping your finger on the pulse of what’s going on around the world.
If you can remember, the old home screen focused [...]
GOOGLE UNVEILS NEW SEARCH FEATURES
Yesterday, Google rolled out a whole new tool box of search options that will prove to be nothing short of a game-changer. Users will now be able to search for terms based on relevancy, recency, content type, reviews, etc. This means that sites like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and review sites will have a much larger impact [...]
MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T BE ON TWITTER
We receive a lot of questions about getting started on social networks, and many clients are interested in learning more about it. Obviously, as true believers in word of mouth marketing and social networking, we get a thrill out of recommending ways to become active, but there are two questions we ask prior to any [...]
NOTHING BUT SOCIAL
Apparently Google is now getting into the business of making a business off of Twitter. According to Ad Age, Google is now offering businesses the option to incorporate their Twitter feed into Google AdSense ads.
The first client to utilize this service is Intuit’s Turbo Tax, who is trying to increase their Twitter followers in the [...]
TWITTER: WHERE IT’S HEADED
As you may have seen, Nielsen recently released a survey surrounding Twitter’s latest user stats. Not surprisingly (to us at least), they cited a 1,382% visitor growth in the past year and touted the average user’s age to be between 35-49 years old. So what does this mean for you and your brand? It’s simple…
Just [...]
OLD FACEBOOK NOSTALGIA
Now that the new Facebook has been out for about a week, I think it’s time to weigh in and see how things are looking. Of course, with any change there will be dissent. There was major uproar when Facebook switched around last fall, and in my opinion, that change was more cosmetic than anything.
This [...]
NEW FACEBOOK HOMEPAGE TAKES TWITTER COMPETITION UP A NOTCH
A few months ago, the talk of the town was Facebook’s interest in acquiring Twitter. It didn’t happen. So as the cliché saying goes, “if you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em.” Ok, so maybe that’s not how it goes, but it seems that’s exactly what Facebook is attempting to do with their recently announced changes.
One [...]
