February 2009
5 posts
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Twitalyzer Shows Twitter Influence
(UPDATE) Twitalyzer, the new Twitter-influence-measuring site that was down for much of the morning (see below) is now back online. The site is simple. You input a person’s Twitter user name and Twitalyzer spits out it’s take on that person’s “influence.” Here’s how Twitalyzer describes influence: “As Twitter becomes increasingly important to online...
Feb 27th
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Media on Twitter
If your PR people aren’t on Twitter, fire them. The media is flocking to social media sites like Twitter and Friendfeed. (By media of course I mean journalists at traditional print, publications, broadcast journalists and bloggers.) They are flocking to social media sites to find sources, distribute their content, network and participate in the conversation. Sure Twitter may not continue to...
Feb 19th
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How to Change Your Twitter Username
Rick Butts has a very helpful post on his blog about how to change your Twitter username without impacting your followers or forcing you to re-follow people.  From Rick’s post: “You will keep ALL your followers - and everyone’s address book will be automatically updated - so you are totally cool. Everything on Twitter will note the change - you just want to insure that old links go...
Feb 18th
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iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)
Have you tried to make a “three-way call” on your iPhone only to have the phone toggle between the two people you have on different lines? We can help. Apple calls it “merge calls.” This is used when you have a person on the line and you call another person with the hopes of adding them to the call. We bet you can’t do it. As much as we love our gadgets here at...
Feb 14th
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Why Twitter Matters
Check out #3 on the chart below. That’s Twitter. The most visited social network that’s not Facebook or MySpace. (UPDATED) While this graphic shows Twitter as just ahead of Flixter, LinkedIn and the rest, consider how significantly under counted Twitter’s visits actually are. Compete measures web traffic. Consider that only 32 percent of Twitter’s users are actually...
Feb 11th