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Flipboard turns Twitter and Facebook into an iPad magazine

For someone who only upgraded from a 1997 Palm III PDA and a 2003 Nokia to an iPhone last year, I am now proud to be part of the in-crowd: I have an iPad. The only reason why I have an iPad, is that I dreamt of having an iPad. I believe in my dreams. [...]

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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs. What tools are on the market to [...]

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Posterous as an alternative for TwitPic

One of the great many things one can use Twitter for, is to share pictures “on-the-fly” with your social community: From about anywhere in the world, I can take a picture with my mobile phone and within seconds post it on Twitter, for all my followers to see. The most popular picture-posting tool is Twitpic. [...]

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Twitter drives traffic to your blog. But how much?

I wrote before on how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I also published a short case study about the influence Twitter-generated traffic had onto my blogs. Most of the evidence of Twitter-to-Blog traffic was circumstantial though: Google Analytics only tracks referral site traffic. As More and more people use a desktop [...]

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How to promote your blogposts

“Content is King” is one of the most important slogans for serious bloggers: No matter how well you promote your blog, if your content – what and how your write – is mediocre, people might discover your blog, but won’t come back. Good, original content is key. It also works the other way round: you [...]

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Twitter offline tool

Now that Twitter, the all-praised social networking tool, is going into its 2nd day limping on one leg after yesterday’s hacker attack, it is time to fall back onto proven technology: Twitter’s Offline Utility… Step 1:

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Twitter and Facebook hacked (again)

The more critical, visible or popular a website, the more prone they become to hacker attacks. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook experienced this today. Both sites came under – probably related – hacker attacks today, bringing Twitter down, and Facebook onto its knees. The attacks were of a basic DoS (Denial of Service) types [...]

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Who tweets about you?

As explained in our Twitter for Dummies series: “retweeting” is an effective way for people to re-broadcast your tweets. Use this URL to find out who is retweeting you:

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The Twitter Tutorial

Discovered via Blog Godown

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The Twitter demographic statistics

When Sysomos, a social media research company, analyzed information about 11.5 million Twitters accounts, the results could not be but amazing and relevant: Twitter only picked up in the last six months: 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009. Most Twitter users seem to be either just ‘listening’ or are [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – Part 1: more than a microblog

Last week, @gaurisalokhe invited Jon from (AidWorker Daily) and I as guest speakers in a short FAO info session about micro blogging. I realized how difficult it is to explain what this social media phenomenon really is all about. Does “Twitter is a micro-blogging tool” associate it too much with “blogging”: “I publish, you read, [...]

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