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Stealth wendy’s campaign got 33,000 twitter followers in a month

Dec
2011
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A stealth campaign for Wendy’s brought on 33,000 Twitter followers in about a month with minimal ad support, a feat that many brands haven’t been able to match over several years’ time. The effort, which promotes a new mid-size burger called the W, revolved around a game show on Twitter using the handle@GirlBehindSix. (The six [...]

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17 twitter marketing tips from the pros

Nov
2011
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Are you looking for fresh ideas to improve your Twitter marketing? Now’s not the time to let your Twitter marketing go stale. Twitter has already grown more in the last 9 months than in the last 5 years and this trend is expected to continue. How does Twitter fit into your social media marketing? Here are 17 Twitter marketing [...]

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How to schedule tweets in tweetdeck for desktops

Nov
2011
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is the most famous and commonly used twitter client for desktops. The reason being its  rich features and user friendliness. This app running on Adobe air gets updated often to blend with the latest offerings in social media. The latest feature additions like scheduled tweets, Foursquare, Google Buzz etc   makes it more powerful and [...]

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Facebook power users have gone to twitter or google+

Oct
2011
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Spotify investor and former Facebook President Sean Parker had some harsh words for his favorite social network: Its problem isn’t privacy, it’s that some of its most active users are leaving for other services. “The threat to Facebook is that power users have gone to Twitter or Google+,” Parker told the Web 2.0 Summit. They are [...]

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Why facebook works for all, twitter for some

Oct
2011
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It finally makes sense to me. On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about our meal.” She pulled out her iPhone, opened up the Twitter application and then proceeded to click around aimlessly trying to figure [...]

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The best tech people to follow on twitter

Sep
2011
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With so much tech news out there, it’s tough to keep track of what’s new, and what’s important. The best thing to do is turn to Twitter, where reporters and newsmakers share links and gab. We’ve assembled 25 of the best tech people to follow on Twitter. Click the link below to check them out. Read more [...]

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How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter

Aug
2011
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Twitter has been around for five years now, but there is still much confusion about what it is good for. How can you post anything useful in 140 characters? Isn’t it just people posting what they had for lunch? It’s a massive time waster. Those are typical complaints. And yet there are several thousand self-proclaimed skeptics actively [...]

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The power of hashtags on twitter

Jul
2011
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Hashtags are the world’s chat room. Where else can you hop on the phone or computer and have an instant, passionate conversation about something that shares a hashtag? When it comes to primetime television, current events, or sports events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl, hashtags allow anyone with a Twitter account to take [...]

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Ever wondered what a global flow of information looks like?

Jul
2011
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During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through Retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. We see this behavior during everything from sporting events like the World Cup to widely-televised news events like the [...]

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In space, everyone hears you tweet as Nasa gets social

Jun
2011
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There is a current fad among the technologically literate for ‘checking in’ on location-based social networks such as Facebook and Foursquare. Friends can see where you are and where you have been in the company of your mobile phone. The practice has given rise to a whole new variety of geographical one-upmanship. But while tagging [...]

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