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Give meaning to Twitter’s #FollowFriday with Klout

Scott Wendling — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:16:35 +0000

“Follow Friday” has become diluted, and I think Klout +K can save it. #FollowFriday (#ff) is the weekly Twitter practice of suggesting people to follow. You simply add the #FF tag to a tweet with a users @name in it. Klout +K is a new feature that lets people vouch for someone as an influencer of a topic. [...]

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Old style retweets vs new style retweets: What’s the difference & how can we abuse them?

Scott Wendling — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:47:45 +0000

If you’re new to Twitter you may know be familiar with the concept of “old style retweets” (now often referred to as “retweet with comment” vs “new style retweets”. Here’s a quick rundown on the history of the retweet (RT). When Twitter began there was no retweet built into the service. There was also no [...]

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You’ve got game: Social media analytics in a game

Scott Wendling — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:14:26 +0000

If 2010 was the year of the location game, 2011 is the year of full blown social gaming. Social gaming is simply a social network that has the ability to “win”, whether it’s simply earning rewards or beating your friends. Foursquare and other location games helped introduce us to this concept but this year social [...]

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CSI Twitter: The price of worthless tweets

Scott Wendling — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:51:47 +0000

Twitter gives every person the ability to document their lives. Many of our tweets are extremely relevant to us especially at the time, but most people could care less. Take one interesting but not very informative tweet: Gust of wind up to 60mph will today will be fun at work… I guess I’ve lived long [...]

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Speaking with @Guavalicious about Twitter micro communities at #140conf small town

Scott Wendling — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:42:23 +0000

#140conf small town is a Twitter based conference that emphasizes concise communication. Kate (@Guavalicious) asked me to speak with her about micro communities on Twitter. A Twitter micro community is a group of tweeters that have one specific thing in common that is usually identified by a hashtag. Kate and I both utilize micro communities the [...]

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3 ways to get real fans and followers at conferences

Scott Wendling — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:56:05 +0000

Real Twitter followers are not easy to come by. There are a ton of robots and people out there willing to instantly follow you back, but what good does that do besides inflate the ego? These followers are not likely to read your tweets or click your links. What you want are real Twitter followers, [...]

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If readers won’t come to you go to them on Twitter

Scott Wendling — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:11:52 +0000

Ever spent an hour(or maybe even a few days) making the greatest blog post ever and then you can’t get anyone to read it? Starting a blog is an uphill battle. If you’re tweeting, facebooking, emailing, shouting from the rooftop and you just can’t bring in the readers then maybe you should go to your [...]

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A reason tweets should go to facebook & not the other way around

Scott Wendling — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:05:42 +0000

Should you send tweets to Facebook, or should your Facebook status updates go to Twitter? Connecting Facebook and Twitter makes your social networks easier to manage and cuts out a lot of time. Facebook updates can be a lot longer than 140 characters. If your facebook status update goes to Twitter and it’s more than 140 [...]

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How to make tweets facebook status updates

Scott Wendling — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:26:14 +0000

Updating Facebook and Twitter can be annoying and time consuming. Save time you can by making your tweets go to Facebook as status updates. This keeps both your Twitter and Facebook social networks up to date at the same time. Here is a demonstration of the facebook “Twitter” application as well as the facebook “Selective [...]

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Why The World Cup killed Twitter

Colby — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:08:52 +0000

The World Cup led to as many fail whales as it did to heart attacks and cases of deafness combined. After Landon Donovan’s game-winning goal against Algeria, which caused me to fling my key lanyard across the bar in a fit of hysteric and slightly inebriated joy, there were reports that made it sound like [...]

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