Recent Posts Tagged With 'twitter'

• Twitter Friday: Do the New Retweets Suck? How to Fix Them?

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:43 in social media, twitter, retweets, retweet feature, retweets suck

  A few months ago I wrote for the first time about the new internal retweet feature on Twitter. I didn’t like it. Now it turns out as the feature is being gradually rolled out that seemingly most people don’t like it. So this time I won&...

• Twitter Friday: What’s Really Popular on Twitter?

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 13:06 in social media, twitter

  In the recent past we have been made believe that the sheer number of tweets mentioning a link is the measure of popularity on Twitter. I don’t speak about popular users here. I mean popular items or tweets. Twitter is neither Digg nor Google...

• Twitter Friday: 20 Twitter Lists for the SEO Industry

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 07:13 in SEO, social media, twitter, 20, seo industry, twitter lists

  Last week I wrote about Twitter lists for the first time, this week it already seems you can’t live without them anymore. There are so many Twitter lists out there by now that even a directory like Listorious can’t help you much finding ...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Lists Galore!

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 15:10 in SEO, social media, twitter, twitter lists

  A lot has happened on and around Twitter since I left for a week. All those news pales in comparison to the introduction of native lists on Twitter. We’ve used groups on advanced Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic already but this week...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter as the Main Traffic Source

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 14:29 in blogging, traffic, social media, twitter, 2009

  Two years ago when I started using twitter I wasn’t impressed. The people came in dozens from there, even when the actual post was about Twitter itself. Later on I realized that many Twitter users do not send a proper referrer due to using some...

• Twitter Friday: StumbleUpon is not Twitter

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 15:32 in SEO, business, social media, twitter, stumbleupon, relaunch, social seo

  Today I almost forgot to write my Twitter Friday column. Why? I was so preoccupied with the new relaunched StumbleUpon version. To make it short: SU attempts to compete directly with Twitter and Google. This might sound ridiculous but they really do....

• 30 Twitter Tools for Business

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 13:32 in business, CRM, tools, social media, twitter, social seo

  How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren’t that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask: Which tools enable professionals ...

• Twitter Friday: The Twitter Effect

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 15:00 in web hosting, blogging, hollywood, social media, twitter, website analytics, twitter effect

  Do you remember a site called Digg? This is a site that has been very successful in 2006. A few years earlier a site called Slashdot was that popular. Both sites exist today and are used by some fringe groups. Back in their heydays they have been not...

• Twitter Friday: The Tweet that Kills Your Account

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 13:16 in social media, twitter, ban, scam, suspended, rishil

  While I have written several times already that Twitter or any other social site might ban you out of the blue it just happened to Rishi Lakhani aka @rishil, a well known SEO figure on social media. I even recommended following him on my SEO Twitter ...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter is Worth a Billion and Your Site is NOT

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 14:02 in social media, twitter, profits, billion

  Many people still doubt that Twitter has value or that it will ever make money. A year ago the same people cried about Facebook growing but not being profitable. Btw, Google hasn’t been profitable from the start as well. Adwords and Adsense wer...

• Twitter Friday: Teens DO Tweet, Don’t They?

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 13:53 in teenagers, statistics, social media, twitter, teens don't tweet

  The Teenagers is a Creative Commons image by Palliativo. Two weeks ago Twitter Friday dealt with teenagers not using Twitter as much as expected. While both the NYT and statistics seemed to have a valid point about teens not tweeting other sources se...

• 30+ New & Free Web Tools You Should Know – 2009 Edition

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 14:31 in SEO, Free, blogging, new, tools, social media, web tools, twitter, internet tools, website analytics

  Roughly a year ago I published a list of 30+ not yet popular web tools you should know here on SEOptimise. It’s the most popular post on this blog ever since. While I considered updating the list I decided to compile a new one with a new genera...

• Twitter Friday: Is Twitter the New RSS?

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 13:49 in rss, blogging, wordpress, social media, twitter, rss is dead

  Lately a discussion about the RSS format flared up. Without RSS blogs and the whole infrastructure of the current Web would not be possible. Some commentators argue that RSS is already a format of the past. A few of them add that Twitter replaces RSS...

• 80% Social Media Adoption: Are You the Last of the Mohicans?

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 in business, blogging, online marketing, adoption, social media, twitter, 80%

  To be or not to be A recent statistic has opened my eyes. While I still somehow assumed to be an early adopter of social media in its still early days a Forrester Research study has shown that 80% of US Internet users use social media in one or more ...

• Twitter Friday: Teens Don’t Tweet – So What?

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 14:16 in myspace, teens, teenagers, social media, facebook, twitter, IM

  Teenagers is a Creative Commons image by Monica Arellano-Ongpin One of the most discussed articles about Twitter recently was a New York Times piece about the Twitter usage of teenagers or rather the lack of it. Teens don’t tweet. Only roughly ...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Will Block Your Retweets

  Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 14:35 in social media, slate, twitter, monopoly, block, microblogging, filter, retweets

  Where’s the retweet? Can you see it? The big news today: Twitter will finally accept retweets and make them part of the built in system or simply put the Twitter home page. At first I was moderately happy about this overdue move until I read th...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Was Down for 2h and the World Stood Still

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 05:05 in CRM, social media, twitter, ddos, social crm, twitter down

  In the early hours of Thursday according to US Eastern Time our beloved Twitter was down. In a way the world stood still. I was also surprised by the outage in spite of frequent Twitter downtimes in recent months. Maybe it was surprising due to the f...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Redesign – Did you Notice it?

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 14:03 in SEO, homepage, online marketing, social media, twitter, redesign

  Twitter just redesigned its homepage? You probably read about it but did you notice any changes? Probably not unless you don’t use Twitter at all. The “revamped homepage” as some pundits put it can only be seen when you’re not...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Means Business

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 13:22 in business, social media, twitter, 101

  This week Twitter has officially embraced business users by providing a set of guidelines for proper and profitable business use of its service. It’s called Twitter 101 for Business. Most of us marketers knew already that Twitter is business fr...

• Twitter Friday: TechCrunch Twitter Hacked Scandal – SEO?

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 14:17 in SEO, techcrunch, social media, ethics, twitter, michael arrington, linkbait, twitter hacked

  “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone.” I admit reading or rather scanning the “confidential” Twitter documents obtained by Techcrunch from a hacker and published in excerpts. Of course I was curious....

• Twitter Friday: 4 Ways to Find out who Tweets about Your Blog or Site

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 13:24 in blogging, social media, twitter, twitter tools, backtype

  We’re used from social media sites that we can look up quickly how well we perform on them. Whether it’s a front page like on Delicious and Sphinn or a review page like on StumbleUpon, it takes just a look at a page or two to find out. Wi...

• Twitter Friday: hashtag Marketing vs Spam vs Censorship

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 09:29 in spam, social media, twitter, hashtags, moonfruit, tweet to win, twitter bombing

  Due to server problems we could not publish the Twitter Friday column last week. Now we’re back up. So here it is. Sorry for the inconvenience. Some #moonfruit anybody? Yesterday’s no name is today’s superstar when it comes to effec...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter as a Weapon of Mass Distraction

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 13:09 in Government, usa, iran, social media, twitter, trust, twitter friday

  What’s the most important issue today? The death of Michael Jackson? No, it’s more of an distraction. Most probably the economy, your health or family still matter most to you. You got distracted anyways. Last week another issue was more ...

• Twitter Friday: Twitter Search is Broken

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 13:06 in issues, social media, twitter, broken, people search, twitter search, twitter friday

  Twitter search has been hailed as the next big thing, short of becoming the next Google. At the same time it seems that Twitter search and Twitter people search are both broken. Try searching for yourself, that is for your username. I asked my foll...

• Twitter Friday: Dell is Making Millions on Twitter but What Else?

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 10:53 in apple, yahoo, social media, twitter, dell, asus, twitter friday, social media phone

  Dell has been an early adopter of social media tools. Other than Apple that uses them for creating hype Dell uses social media in the direct business sense: They use Twitter to make money via direct sales among others. In 2008 Dell managed to earn 2 ...

• Twitter Friday: Resistance is Futile

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 11:11 in social media, enterprise, twitter, star trek, voyager, collective, resistance is futile, the borg

  Classic Space Borg Cube, a Creative Commons licensed image by T.Oechsner Reading articles like the latest from Time Magazine you get one impression: Resistance is futile. Either you join the Twitter collective or you get assimilated by force. Of cou...

• Google UK SERPs mixing in US based queries

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 04:22 in google, SEO, twitter

  Many people have spotted a large amount of US based listings appear for queries on Google UK this morning. Two of the SERPs I noticed changes for were queries on search marketing and Kevin Gibbons. Both of these results are normally dominated by UK l...

• 30 Must Follow SEO Twitter Users

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 12:30 in SEO, social media, twitter, follow, mavens, seo industry, conectors, twitter friday

  Instead of the regular Twitter Friday column this time we’ll feed two birds with one piece of bread: This time we’re listing 30 Must Follow SEO Twitter Users. Take note that not all of these Twitter users are SEOs or even search marketers...

• Twitter Friday: Digg, Reddit or Mixx? Twitter!

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 09:54 in SEO, digg, social media, twitter, reddit, social news, mixx

  In recent days and weeks a few search and social media marketers complained about Digg and Reddit again. I myself did the same in regard to Mixx. Do you ask yourself which social news site you should join? Digg, Reddit or maybe even Mixx? The only co...

• Twitter Friday: One Year of Twitter Participation

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 12:22 in blogging, value, social media, twitter, authority, usage

  First Birthday Cake is a Creative Commons licensed image by hfb. Approx. one year ago I joined Twitter. I was late. Most early adopters had been Twitter power users already by then. The spring of 2008 was a watershed moment for Twitter acceptance in...