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If you use twitterfeed to sync your blogs with your Twitter account, you could easily integrate tweetmeme retweet counters by adding the code “RT @tweetmeme” to your twitterfeed feeds.

Once you have added the tweetmeme retweet code to the prefix field of your twtterfeed feed, you tweets will be counted by …

Tagged As: Social Media, Social Networks, twitter, twitterfeed

Posted by Vincent on 3 July 2009 4:09 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

I have been applying what I have learnt from the Twitter Traffic Machine for over a month now. When I started on 10 April 2009, I had 2258 followers. After using the tips and tricks in the Twitter Traffic Machine for 2.5 months, my followers have risen to …

Tagged As: Automation, Online Communities, Social Networking, twitter, Twitter Traffic Machine

Posted by Vincent on 25 May 2009 4:07 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

1. Magpie

Magpie is an ad network for Twitter. They’ll post tweets to your Twitter account on a predefined ratio of  tweets to ads. You could select to post ads as often as 1 ad after you post 1 Tweet or as spaced out as 1 ad after 200 Tweets. …

Tagged As: Advertising, Magpie, Social Networking, Twittad, twitter

Posted by Vincent on 28 April 2009 3:43 AM in Advertising Revenue, Social Networking | 1 Comment |

The guys at Twitip just posted a blog post on using the text “via @” instead of “RT” for Twitter retweets. Now that is something new for me!

Is that a better way to retweet? I don’t think so. Everyone is used to using “RT” at the moment and it …

Tagged As: RT, Social network

Posted by Vincent on 19 March 2009 7:33 PM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

Retweeting is when you copy someone else’s Twitter tweet and post it as your own. Usually, people add “RT”, “Retweet”, “Retweeting” or “Reading”. Blogging Bits has a great article on how, why and when to Retweet. My article will focus on how to allow other people to retweet your …

Tagged As: Social Networking, Social Networks, twitter

Posted by Vincent on 8:00 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

1. Twitoria

Twitoria finds your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so that you can remove them. The problem with Twitoria is you cannot remove your friends from Twitoria. You need to login to Twitter, click on the …

Posted by Vincent on 16 March 2009 5:52 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

NameCheap uses Twitter for competitions and I think it is a wonderful idea.

They will be giving away three domain names every hour on the hour for two weeks on …

Posted by Vincent on 11 March 2009 3:43 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

ATI used to have a RSS feed for announcing their latest ATI Catalyst drivers. However, on 20 February, they announced that “Catalyst updates will no longer be available as an RSS feed We are excited to announce the availability of exclusive updates on Twitter!!”.

Check out the ATI Catalyst Twitter …

Posted by Vincent on 8 March 2009 6:19 PM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

I DO NOT disagree with SocialToo’s decision to stop automated DMs on their site but I disagree with their decision to block users who send automated DMs from other sites.

There are pros and cons of sending automated direct messages on Twitter. I believe the number one reason for auto …

Tagged As: twitter

Posted by Vincent on 12:00 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

Don Reisinger wrote an interesting article on how he uses Twitter to replace RSS readers. Personally, I still use RSS readers from my Windows machine and I don’t think Twitter is going to replace that any time soon.

However, I do understand that this Twitter phenomenon is something that I …

Tagged As: twitter

Posted by Vincent on 7 March 2009 12:00 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

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