Category: Twitter

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Twitter Junior Ghost Tweeting Program

We now provide budget priced ghost tweeting services for clients. We’ve called the program Twitter Junior. Twitter Junior is for the client who already has Twitter in place and who has been tweeting but is getting tired of it or just does not know how to grow their audience.

Here’s a small case study that helps you to understand our potential value to you using our expertise on Twitter.

We have a client who did not have a Twitter account. We started him off with our Twitter Implementation program. Here, we set up many accounts, integrated Twitter everywhere we could on his blog and website, and started to build his Twitter following. We even posted on Twitter for five days after set up to get him going. This client then decided to try our Twitter Executive program to allow us to continue to effectively build his following. In less than two weeks with our tweeting, follower interaction, direct messages, and tweets that provides value, he has grown from just a few followers to over 132 followers with about five new followers being added each day.

He is a perfect candidate to them move to our Twitter Junior program in two more weeks to continue to build on what we have grown in just two weeks with two more weeks to go. We don’t want to tweet on your accounts for indefinite periods of time as tweeting at this level is very time consuming, but our services are great to give you a jump start to help you hit the ground running on Twitter. We’ll even train you to take over your account and help you learn how to tweet effectively when you are ready to take over.

If you are thinking about Twitter but simply do not know where to start, you may want to consider our Twitter Implementation and ghost Twitter programs to help you get going fast.

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The URL Shortener Contest

Which URL shortener are you using on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn? Do you even care? Well you should! URL shorteners are not all created equal. In fact one of my colleagues reamed me out for using www.TinyURL.com just the other day.

If you use any social networking platforms then you know you have a limited amount of space in which to say what you want to say. Well, what if you want to link to something on your website or online? Here’s where a URL shortener is necessary. You can take a big URL like:

http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204

and turn it into a itty bitty URL like this:

http://bit.ly/ZuUw

Big difference right? In fact if you click either of the links above you will go to a nice article reviewing the different URL shorteners that are popular. Search Engine Land even lays it out graphically so you can see what you think is important in one glance. Personally I use www.Bit.ly as my shortener when I have a choice. Some social networking services do not give you a choice and some use www.TinyURL.com as their default, but there are some nice reasons why you should evaluate which one you use and then stick with it.

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Bing Teamed With Twitter in BingTweets – Very Cool!

I have to say that even I think that this is very cool, Bing has created a Twitter Bing interface called BingTweets. You can visit it at www.BingTweets.com. I don’t know who’s brainchild this was at Microsoft, but let me tell you Microsoft appears to “get Twitter”.

Personally I thought it was a very cool application and a neat way to check out what is being said online about you or your company. Just put your name in the Bing search box and any tweets that have mentioned you will appear in the Twitter scroller ticker on the right. Even if it is a novelty, it show that something has changed at Microsoft with the introduction on Bing.

In fact Microsoft has done something so big with Bing that their search engine has moved from a 2% market share to now about an 8% market share as of just last week. It doesn’t hurt that Bing has received excellent press from the mainstream professional webmaster world as well as the New York Times, and the fact that it is not Google. But will Bing has the power to supplant Yahoo in market share and really become a contender to threaten Google? If they keep on doing cool things like BingTweet they may.

I for one am watching Bing very carefully. I love the look, the clean interface, and now this new savvy merging of a hot property (Twitter) with a neat application. The millions spent on advertising don’t hurt either. To cement the move I would say to Microsoft now’s the time to move on Yahoo and try to integrate what they have into a mega empire. Then they would have a very real threat to Google, but Microsoft likes to do things slowly and their way, so I am just watching.

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Bing is Testing Out Indexing Twitter Posts

Bing is testing out indexing Twitter posts – not just the Twitter profile page as Google does, but actual Twitter posts, or tweets, as they are known. This is important news and just one more really important reason why Twitter is so important to add to a web presence arsenal in today’s business environment.

Tweets can point to information on your website, outside articles you have written, or industry links and videos. If Bing does roll out massive tweet indexing it will be a real boon for search engine marketeers and spin Twitter use into the stratosphere. Right now Bing appears to be testing the indexing of tweet for only specific Twitter accounts.  

If there has ever been a reason for you to embrace Twitter this is a big one! I have long expected that the interest in Twitter would continue to grow, not only for marketing, but for search engine optimization. I still feel that eventually Google will try to gobble up Twitter this year, but Twitter may end up standing on its own as Facebook has.

As an early embracer of the Twitter medium, I totally “get it” when it comes to Twitter. I really love the application, post frequently during the work week, and love to share, connect, link, and interact with others online on Twitter. I have been able to connect directly with giants in my industry using Twitter, and on top of that, I consider it huge fun.

One of the real values of Twitter is the ability to “know fast”. I knew Michael Jackson and Farrah had died before it was on any of the mainstream news medias. All because of Twitter. I can follow topics and events from around the world. I have experienced the “push” that Twitter can bring for viral marketing myself – picking up 100 new followers on a mini white paper that I did that was then tweeted and retweeted widely in the Twitterverse.

If Bing and then Google decide to roll out indexing tweets, watch out! For all hot new things that are just appearing to be ready to crest, it is best to get involved early and get involved before the curve hits. Twitter is just that appearing to be ready to crest. If you are not on Twitter it is time to think again.

If you really don’t know where to start we do offer a Twitter set up program and ghost twittering program, but really with a little research and time investment you can do it on your own. Just do a search on our blog and website for Twitter and you will find a wealth of information on how you can get started with Twitter and the great applications that help you use Twitter effectively.