Tag Archives : Twitter

The Growing Pains of Social Media

The Growing Pains of Social Media

Twitter – The Adolescent Twitter is like an adolescent child. Talking none stop to anyone and everyone who will listen. Mostly, the content is garbled and non-descriptive. All the content is repeated over and over again until a point the original message is lost in translation. What’s popular or trending isn’t popular or trendy. It’s quick, simple and no attention span required. Facebook [...]
Virtual Geolocation Service

Virtual Geolocation Service

We are all aware that Geolocation is becoming big business for many mainstream businesses. If you cannot be found on Facebook Places, Foursquare or Gowalla you are behind the times. I understand Twitter is playing with the idea of utilizing their geolocation tags for business purposes. These services offer local businesses huge potential revenue streams, and the ability to offer locational discounts, [...]
How To Verify Your Twitter Account

How To Verify Your Twitter Account

This is relatively simple process to follow; however, it does only apply to certain individuals. If you are a celebrity, you can verify your account. At this time Twitter isn’t verifying businesses, organisations or charities. Please visit Twitter’s help page for more information by clicking here. From this point you can request verification.
How to get Retweeted

How to get Retweeted

Twitter is a very useful tool to driving traffic to your web site, and in this article I discuss ways to get your Tweets Retweeted. I suspect that the top search engines are spidering peoples tweets, not necessarly to index or rank them, but using them to find content on the web very quickly. A popular post or article can be tweeted some several hours prior to it getting linked too. Search engines [...]
How Social Are Social Networking Websites?

How Social Are Social Networking Websites?

How can you be lonely when you have so many friends on Facebook? Are you cursed by the social network generation of only having relationships with people you hardly know, or work colleagues that you would rather not know in person, let alone online? Has time move on from days when groups of friends got together in person for a night out or weekend activity? Do you feel pressured into having [...]
Social Networking – 3 Years into the Future

Social Networking – 3 Years into the Future

How will Social Networking websites look like in the future? Or more importantly, what functionality will sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide and how will we interact with friends, family and work colleagues 3 years from now. In the coming years, Social Networking websites will more likely become the hub or portal to all our online activity: 1. email: Most Social Networking already have [...]
Geolocation

Geolocation

Geolocation is the identification of real world graphical location of computers, mobile devices and web site visitors connected to the Internet. Geolocation information can include Country, Region, City/Town, Postcode/Zipcode and latitude and longitute. In the past couple of month two major players in the social networking arena have incorporating geolocation features and made this technology [...]
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