Blog Entries tagged 'Twitter'

Why Twitter Will Be Sold in a Fire Sale

ltdraper — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I just can't see how Twitter is going to make enough money to justify their venture capital investment (which is reported but not publicly verified to be around $20M) or $80M valuation. Five years from now we're going to look back at the Twitter phenomenon the same way we scratch our heads today when we try to explain Pets.com. If you can't look at the [...]

Twitter Gave Me the Mark of the Beast

Don — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I got into twitter in a big way last week. My account had been around for a long time, but I wasn't doing anything to promote it. Then I started using our Twitter Greasemonkey Script and started following 2,000 people that were interested in the same things I was. After a few days I removed everyone that wasn't mutual (down to about 500) and started adding more. I was looking to build a large community of pe [...]

Take Advantage of your Opportunities for Communication in Social Media

Don — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

You should seriously consider effectively communicating with the people that follow you on Twitter.

There's a twitter account called RU4real that claims to be an experiment. Here's the only thing they've tweeted:

DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT. It is an experiment to see how many people read the pages of the people they follow. You are a tool.

The problem is that this exper [...]

Twitter Smarter with Greasemonkey

ltdraper — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Yes, it's another cool Greasemonkey script from Promote My Site to improve your social media experience. This time it's for Twitter.

If you're new to Twitter, the first thing you find out is that you start off without anyone following you. So posting is like talking to yourself in the forest. Sure, your voice sounds great, but what's the point?

There are two basic strategies for getting people to follow you on Twitter. The first is to be famous. If you are Matt Cutts, Rand [...]

Add the ProBlogger 538 Twitter Users that Blog List the Easy Way

ltdraper — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

We did the Imacro Script to Add the Problogger Digg Friends the Easy Way earlier this week.

Now we've done the same thing for the giant 538 Twitter Users That Blog list that he put together.

You still need to install Imacro, but this time to make it easier you only need the FireFox version. You can click on the Imacro icon in our sidebar. Then just run this script. Be sure that you're already logged into Twitter before starting the script.

Thanks to Darren for putti [...]