That’s right, Playboy really does use Twittertise. This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Twittertise 20-Word Description Twittertise allows you to schedule tweets and track their clickthroughs. CEO’s Pitch Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers. Using Twittertise you can schedule your communications on Twitter up to a year in advance and using URL tracking technology measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform. We have complete graphing analytics...
I agree with John Gruber on this one, so far Tweetie is the best iPhone app for Twitter out there (I’m sure more are on the way). It’s meets most of my mobile Twitter requirements. You can download it for $2.99 from the iTunes Store. Here’s a breakdown of it’s features: - Handle multiple twitter accounts. - View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites. - Browse your friends and followers. - Post new tweets, retweet - Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages. - Follow and unfollow people. - Mark tweets as favorites. - Navigate reply chains....
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day. Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well. Sponsor Mozila also just released a new interface to showcase some of the top Firefox addons, which will surely bring a lot of new...
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)There are hundreds of Twitter applications on the market, many of which have been covered previously on this blog, including a number of clients, such as TweetDeck and Posty. With the Twitter ecosystem continuing to grow, as evidenced by last night's post on SocialToo, I wanted to touch upon a few that I use, and that I feel are unique and useful. This post highlights fifteen different Twitter tools that I believe would be excellent additions for your Twitter toolbox.1) TwufferTwuffer is a simple, useful utility that allows you to schedule pre-written messages for posting...
I’ve been talking about the “next new feature” of SocialToo for awhile now. Tonight, in a partnership with Guy Kawasaki of AllTop and Garage Technology Ventures, SocialToo.com announced the release of SocialSurveys, a viral way of polling your followers in a very easy manner. Here’s how it works: You go to Socialtoo.com and register if you have not done so already - you must provide your Twitter credentials to get the most out of it (other services will be added soon) Click “Create Survey” to get started Add your question and some answers Leave “Send a URL for this...
One thing that bugs me about Twitter is that the term followers, the people who elect to see your microblogging updates, sounds like a cross between a group of zombies and a collection of cultish fanatics that you might want to keep at arm’s length. We use other terms like friend, contact, colleague, and buddy to refer to these different kinds of people who pay attention to what you do and say. Image by toprankonlinemarketing A lot of people (including both you and me?) like the idea of building up these follower numbers for several reasons. It can come across...
Filed under: Fun, Internet, web 2.0 Since Twitter decided to take care of the frequent outages that used to plague its servers, I've actually started using it here and there. It's a nice service, and definitely has useful applications. You've only got to look as far as sites like NowPublic and Twubble to see how the API can be put to good use.However, there are a mountain of applications feeding off it and they're not all contenders for Best in Show. These five definitely are, but only if it's a show dedicated to sucking at Twitter API use. TwitemperatureFinally, a...
For the last few months, I've been using a service called SocialToo to transparently and automatically follow those people who choose to follow my accounts on Twitter and Identica. Rather than resort to manually deciding who to add to my list, or going to other services, such as Twitter Karma, SocialToo has been automatically synchronizing my lists. Today, the author, Jesse Stay, also a frequent contributor to this site, has rolled out a new feature aimed at making the service much more interactive and differentiated, with the launch of SocialSurveys, a viral way to quickly poll your followers on...
It seems as if we’ve been seeing a wave of various sites that rank you among other Twitter users. Like Twitterank and TwinFluence. I came across another one called Twitter Grader. It ranks your Twitter profile up against other users of Twitter, based on things like number of followers, the power of your follower network, how often you update, and your profile bio. It gives you two numbers: your overall rank and your percentage out of 100. It scored me at 99.5, and ranked me #1517 out of the 365,650 who have used the service since launch. Woo. Hoo? Not...
History tends to remember only pivotal moments in time, discarding the day to day struggles. Even when the occasional diary survives, it only archives what one person does - it doesn’t track his or her interactions with others. But with social media, that information is readily available and, furthermore, that information archives how we interact with others over time. For the first time in human history, the day-to-day interactions between people are being permanently recorded and formatted in easily organizable segments of information. This has a plethora of consequences on how we record history, but here are the five big...
In this guest post Kyle Bylin was inspired by the work of Anthropologist Elman Service and Seth Godin's video "Curious". (video after the jump below) Yesterday on Hypebot, Bruce raised the question, “What fans should artists listen and pay attention to?” My answer is: all of them, but there's a big difference between listening and truly caring. Be approachable, start doing something, and answer those emails. If you are leading a tribe of followers, you have to pay attention to all of them, but the key is to empower the curious. There are many types of followers, but it's the...
Whenever I speak at an event about blogging and social media, I always like to point out how these tools are wonderful ways to let companies connect with their customers, when properly positioned.But eventually, there's always a few questions about how much traffic you can drive to your blog through SM, like what about Digg? Or Facebook? How important is it to have the right keywords targeted?Let me tell you that social sites can be a wonderful way to draw attention to your blog/site. For example, I now have about 2,300 people following me on Twitter. When I go to...
Sean Bonner and Tara Bonner (Brown) have just launched two new Twitter sites, Tweetwants tracking stuff that people want and TweetFails tracking stuff that fails. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Tweetwants & TweetFails, Tracking Wants & Fails on Twitter Related posts:- Twitter Followers Have Exceeded RSS Feed Subscribers- Tweetmeme, Tracking Popular Links on Twitter- Laughing Squid Web Hosting Is Now On Twitter- Quotably, Following Conversations on Twitter- FriendFeed, Aggregate and Share Web Content With Friends...
Filed under: Design, Mods, WebIs there anything more addictive than Twitter? If you're in full-blown Twitter addiction, you might be looking to spruce up your Twitter profile page. While you can change a few of the colors, the most effective way to differentiate your Twitter profile is to change the background image. If you want something professionally done that will really wow people, check out Twitter Image. They've done free designs for a number of well-known twitterers, and you can browse through screenshots of the professional designs they've done. Or, if you like, you can browse their currently two pages...
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. In my previous post I discussed how to build your Twitter community, offering 10 tips as a guide. Here are a few tips on what not to do: (Make sure you know a few of the basic Twitter commands to understand the content of this post.) Don’t get caught up in the COUNT; get caught up in the CONTENT! My biggest pet peeve on Twitter is when people ask for more followers. I don’t think anyone...
