Twitter is Massive!  …or is it? If you took a stab to guess the total number of people in the U.S. that use Twitter, what would be your guess?  You’d probably shoot for somewhere around 20-30%, as that seems to be the general consensus among a lot of people discussing the topic.  Some even consider [...]

Few topics are hotter these days than the influence that social media has on the market. The trick is generating influence for yourself, or even judging the actual power of it. Traditionally, we use numbers to identify our statistics-height, weight, siblings, test scores, grade point averages, goals, interviews, jobs, performances, salaries, etc. The problem is [...]

If you’re thinking about starting up a marketing campaign on Twitter, then there are some things you need to consider – rules to adhere to so that you don’t shoot yourself in the foot while promoting through the social media network. First and foremost, it’s a softsell environment.  There are few places where the hard [...]

I’ve been fairly hush hush about a project I’ve been working on, which the title alludes to here.  I’m well aware that there is an abundance of Twitter information on the web, from free content to paid content and all of it falling somewhere in between “completely relevant” and “not at all relevant”. There’s a [...]

Twitter has found itself on the end of Facebook and tailing fast as one of the fastest growing social networks on the web.  It has grown at a fairly steady pace since its launch in July of 06 and has seen spikes in activity on and off throughout that time.  Within the last 14 months, [...]

Twitter is gaining steam as one of the more popular social media networks on the web.  It’s holding fast at position 3 and I wouldn’t be surprised if it tried to take Facebook in turn 3 on the outside. The ease of use and how simplistic the service is makes it ideal for marketing by [...]

Since the time when LinkedIn revealed its app programming interface (API), new enhancements for social media have regularly been created to reinforce that already strong and growing network.  One of the partnerships that becoming increasingly popular (to no surprise) is Twitter and LinkedIn.  Considering the growing popularity of B2B marketing online through common social media [...]

Ever drop a tweet to something that you felt was really worthwhile within your niche that you just knew people would love to share?  How often have you done that and got absolutely zero response?  No reply, no retweet, no clicks.  Despite having followers in the 4 digits, pretty much all of them ignored your [...]

Twitter is continuing on an upswing despite recent maintenance issues and various outages.  It’s caused no issue with people as they continue to use Twitter for both social and business purposes however as many continue to run their show through the social media service. If you’re looking to make a splash on Twitter with your [...]

If you’re active on Twitter and watch live streams regularly then you probably notice the flood of Tweets the come in every Friday.  The increase of volume is due to these Follow tweets that people are throwing into the Twitterverse.  These tweets, usually containing either #FF or #FollowFriday, are laced with the usernames of favorite [...]