When Mike Wise asked himself how reporters could possibly run stories without checking facts, he decided to try out a little experiment. Wise, who is a reporter for the Washington Post, decided to post something on his Twitter feed to see if other reported would write about it without checking the facts. Needless to say, Read more »
Jimmy Fallon asked his Twitter followers to tweet introductions for the 20 presenters at the Emmy Awards. The bit may have been too cool for the room as the tweets were mostly met with less than raucous laughter. Some of the presenters were: Glee’s Matthew Morrison, 30 Rock’s Tina Fey, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Read more »
If you’re an old school Internet user, chances are you recall the good old days of chat rooms – whether they were AOL chats or, even better, IRC, there was a time when chatting was the social networking of its day. Read more »
If you’re marketing on Twitter, chances are you’re looking to connect with like-minded individuals to network – both on a professional-to-professional level, and on a potential customer level. The easiest way to do this is to search for hashtags related to your industry or brand, and follow the people who are using those hashtags. The Read more »
With every brand and its brother jumping on the social networking bandwagon these days – with good reason – it’s worth taking a look at some of the companies that are using Twitter right, and understanding exactly why it is that they’re tweeting right on the money. Read more »
Twitter lists are a powerful tool you can use to sort the accounts you follow based on whatever criteria you desire, but they are also a wonderful way to quickly keep abreast of updates from entire groups of users by watching the lists made by other people. Read more »
On the heels of the wildly successful Old Spice commercials and video responses to comments left on Old Spice’s various social networking outlets, Wheat Thins manufacturer Kraft Foods/Nabisco rolled out their own socially driven ad campaign this week. Read more »
Everyone wants to find the magic bullet for tweets that will gain them followers and, ideally, be retweeted hither and yon. But there is no one formula that works for everyone. What you tweet successfully depends a lot on who you are, who your audience is, and what you’re hoping to accomplish with Twitter. If Read more »
Jason Keath has culled highlights from the recent Edison Research “Twitter Usage in America 2010”, which examines the reach of the massively popular microblogging and social networking site, and analyzes the behavior of the site’s users. Read more »
Gone are the days of having to use two separate searches to find what you’re looking for on Twitter. Up until now, you had to use a “find people” search specifically to find people with a name or keyword, and the Twitter search to find tweets with your search term. But recently Twitter integrated the Read more »
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