Oprah gets 70k Twitter Followers and Schooled By Shaq
Friday, April 17th, 2009 | Funny, News, Twitter | 1 Comment
Ok I just couldn’t resist this, I know that today everyone seemed to be talking way too much about celebrities who recently have joined Twitter.com, but after seeing this series of updates I just had to post it.
Oprah’s first twitter post…..followed by Shaq’s response.
Layeth the smacketh down Shaq……God help us all.
Tracking Twitter – Directory of Brands on Twitter
Friday, March 6th, 2009 | Business, Marketing, Mashup, Tools, Twitter, WebApps | No Comments
Brand management firm ElectricArtists just recently launched Trackingtwitter, a site that tracks media, entertainment and consumer product accounts on the microblogging site.
Trackingtwitter follows Zappos, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Jet Blue and Comcast, among others. It broadcasts the brand category (“sports,” “television,” etc.), the Twitter usernames, number of followers, most recent tweet and any personal notes they may have collected about the account.
Top 15 Twitter Power User Tools
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | AIR, Beta, Hack, RSS, Tools, Twitter, Utilities, WebApps | 2 Comments
With the hundreds of Twitter applications, websites, bots and scripts out there designed to do just about everything under the sun for you and your Twitter account, I decided to compile my own list of the top 15 Power User Twitter Tools that really provide the most value. Speaking of which, if you like this list or feel that something is missing from it, follow me on twitter – @brentter and let me know.
This is my latest addiction. It’s a free service that sends you an email update whenever someone un-follows your twitter account. I don’t know why, but I figure they send you an email when someone starts to follow you, they might as well send one when they leave.
Pretty much this is Twitter for those of you with too many ‘groups’ or followers. It lets you break down your ‘tweets’ into separate feeds that you determine. These can be based on a specific topic, affiliation, location or any other attribute you manage to dream up. It’s also an Adobe Air desktop application that’s still in beta, so there are a few bugs from time-to-time.
Here’s a service that tracks all the links posted on Twitter and ranks them based on the number of recent appearances. There are then many different filter options you can run on the list to narrow it down and even an export function to grab it as an RSS feed.
Twitterfeed takes any RSS feed and posts it to your twitter account. Made specifically for auto-updating your twitter account every time you post a new entry on your blog, Twitterfeed can easily be used to post new entries from in just about any RSS feed (i.e. baseball scores from espn.com).
Now here’s a unique new service that’s still in beta and aimed at those trying to utilize Twitter as a marketing tool. With EasyTweets you can manage multiple Twitter accounts, schedule future tweets (i.e. special announcements), post items from your RSS feed and more. It’s still pretty new but is shaping up to be a great utility for managing your brand identity on Twitter.
#Hashtags are a way to automatically add your tweet to a specific category, for instance lets say I wanted to create a single location for anyone to be able to add to and see what’s being said about NYE09 on Twitter. I would just go and create the hashtag #NYE09 and anytime that a tweet contained #NYE09, it would automatically be added to the hashtag.org website. The beauty of this service is each hashtag has its own RSS feed and usage statistics. To start using hashtags all you have to do is follow @hashtags and anything with a # in front of it will be added to that specific group.
These aren’t really a ‘must use’ but they are pretty neat. They’re icons that twitter accepts as valid characters in tweets. To use them, just copy and paste the desired icon into your message box and voila!
A free collection of unique background patterns for twitter. Pretty cool designs to choose from created by the folks from olivemanna.
Here’s a service that lets you email twitter updates to your account as well as gives you the option to have all your twitter replies emailed back to you.
Here’s a cool new service that monitors keyword density on twitter to show us what the ‘Hot Trends’ might be, or at least what is the most popular topic. It’s updated every 20 seconds and also has a widget & RSS feed for your own personal use.
Here’s a brand-spanking-new service that lets your monitor/track twitter for up to three separate terms in real-time. It also lets you narrow the results based on the users location. RSS feeds available as well.
It’s a URL shortening service that also lets you track how many times people click on your link. Works with both Twitter and FriendFeed.
This is a cool little tool that lets you compare trends in Twitter through a variety of different graphical methods. It also has the latest “Hot Before” and “Hot Now” terms sweeping across the Twittsphere. This may look familiar because it was used a lot to show the difference in social media mentions that Barack Obama received compared to McCain in the last few weeks of the election.
Graph your Twitter stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline and your reply statistics.
Twitter Search (formerly Summize)
Real-time searching of what’s being said on Twitter. Each search provides it’s own RSS feed along with the ability to search for specific users (i.e. @brentter). Formerly known as Summize, it was purchased by Twitter earlier this year. One more thing to note, it auto-updates with each new addition your search.
So, what do you use to manage your Twitter account? Tell me on here or by following me at @brentter on Twitter.
Sell advertising space on your Twitter account!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | Affiliate, Business, Marketing, Mashup, Tools, Twitter | 1 Comment
It was only a matter of time before people started finding ways to monetize Twitter, last week announcing the arrival of a short-url CPC program and this week announcing the arrival of Twittad.
Twittad.com lets you put up your twitter account on their marketplace where advertisers can see the number of folks who are following/followers as well as the price you are asking to allow their products/advertising to be displayed on your twitter page.
If you’re a Twitter user looking for advertising – You get to select the duration that the ads are displayed as well as the price. Anyone interested in purchasing that space will then contact you through twittad.com, giving you the ability to accept or deny the offer.
How does twittad.com make money then?
They get paid a 5% service fee on the total purchase price (minimum of $0.99 cents).
What’s to stop an advertiser from contacting the user directly, skipping twittad altogether?
NOTHING! You’re given the user’s twitter profile, there you have any number of ways of contacting them without twittad even knowing! Email, through their website and even through twitter.
Right now the most expensive twitter account only has 599 Followers/605 Followings. Get this, it’s going for $100!! The highest paid twitter account though is only $25 for an user with a following of 351. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s one of the developers who purchased the account!
I can’t see how this will last… but it’s an interesting attempt at monetizing Twitter. I give it a week before script-kiddies with auto-generated twitter accounts take-over the site. Good luck.
Make Money With Twitter (And Other Social Media)
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | Affiliate, Business, Promotion, SEM, Tools, Twitter, Utilities | 4 Comments
Interested in making money on twitter.com & other social media sites? Here’s something I was recently sent:
There’s a new CPC Advertising site called adjix. Available for both advertisers and publishers, it takes long URLs and converts them into a shorter format similar to tinyurl or shorl. The only catch is when a user clicks on the link, they’ll see an advertisement in the top of their screen. The best news is, you decide what category of advertisement it shows. You’re also provided two separate types of short-urls:
Here’s an example link (in the technology category):
One of the great things about this service that sets it a part from all the other URL-Shortening services is that it provides you with user information on anyone that follows your link. It even shows the IP & hostname of the user!
Another key feature of adjix is that they give you the ability to use your own domain instead of theirs!
What does that mean? Say goodbye to http://adjix.com/fp9p and hello to http://links.brentter.com/fp9p! All it took was an easy DNS change and voila, the affiliate link no longer looks like an affiliate link.
Also, if you just wanted to use this URL-Shortening service but did NOT want to display any ads, they have recently launched a no-ad version of adjix! You can find more information about that here.
There’s a long list of categories available for you to choose from as well.
Here’s a sample:
This is the start of a whole new breed of CPC advertising opportunities. Should be interesting to see what comes out next!
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