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Advice on how to use Twitter.
I got asked by a client who makes a great deal of their income off traffic from Twitter to look for a replacement for Tweet Adder, since they’ve recently made themselves both compliant with Twitter’s TAC and completely useless to this client, all in one fell swoop. Apparently Twitter wants to make it very hard …
I received the following letter (excerpted to remove the instructions for closing down an account): Hi Desi, Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter about one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help …
Today, I thought I’d share with you a FANTASTIC new tool for social interaction called IFTTT. “Ift” is how you say it. It allows you to not only choose what where when you post, but how easy it is to find and see the responses from others. There are literally millions of ways you could …
Twitter is only powerful if you don’t waste a lot of time there. Let me amend that.
Twitter is a great tool for managing existing customer relationships. Spend as much time there as you want if you’re using it to manage an existing field of active Twitter users who are your customers already. As far as cold contact, Twitter is a good (not great) tool for marketing, so long as you don’t spend a lot of time on it.