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As promised in one of my previous posts, I am giving away my Twitter background switching script to you for free.

I’ve got a live example running on my web site right now!

To test it, visit my Twitter …

Tagged As: Social Networking, twitter, twitter background, update twitter background

Posted by Vincent on 19 March 2010 3:20 AM in News | 0 Comments |

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 |

I am creating a PHP script to automatically change my Twitter account’s background image and profile image. So far, the code is working for the background image change but Twitter’s servers seem to be slow in recognizing the changes.

I have submitted a report to the Twitter API team about …

Tagged As: PHP, Programming, Social Networking, twitter, XML

Posted by Vincent on 15 April 2009 7:28 AM in Web Development | 1 Comment |

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 19 March 2009 8:00 AM 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 8 March 2009 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 |

I stumbled upon Tweeter Getter, a viral marketing tool that claims to increase your number of Twitter followers by the thousands. “15625 new Twitter followers” is what the creator claims you will get if you use …

Tagged As: Social Networks, twitter, Viral marketing

Posted by Vincent on 3 March 2009 2:23 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

I think I have hit Twitter’s following limit. At the time of this post, I have 1216 followers and I am following 1881 people in my Twitter account.

According to …

Tagged As: Social network, twitter, Viral marketing

Posted by Vincent on 2 March 2009 8:00 AM in Social Networking | 0 Comments |

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