Archive for the ‘Microblogging’ Category

Read Write Web’s Sarah Perez lets us know about 5 Web applications for locating people to follow on Twitter.

1. Twubble
2. Twitter Local
3. TwitterWho
4. Twits Like Me
5. TwitDir

According to ReadWrite Web, Penguin Books is using new social media tools to distribute six of its titles in a new We Tell Stories campaign. The British publisher is using a LiveJournal blog, Twitter, and Google Maps to post its stories in a serialized format over a weeklong period for each story.

Anyone doing the conference circuit this spring will want to check out the C|Net News story How to survive the next-gen confab, which discusses the new interactive audience which has been given a voice at these events through such tools as Twitter, IM, and blogs.

“If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, consider this: Today, there are so many ways to communicate that even in a conference ballroom where there’s no Wi-Fi, many audience members likely have smartphones they can use to Twitter their impressions of whoever is speaking. Add working Wi-Fi and you’ve got a full-throated echo chamber of people who aren’t at all shy about making every last thought public.”

The folks at ReadWriteWeb monitored over 37,000 tweets, or short messages posted to the microblogging application Twitter, to find the most popular ways that people are interacting with the service. They compared these results with the analysis they did last November in their article How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients. Here are their top twenty ways that people use Twitter, with the number of tweets each method accounted for in parentheses:

1. Web 56% (20734)
2. IM 8% (2975)
3. Twhirl 7% (2754)
4. Twitterrific 7% (2462)
5. TXT 5% (1683)
6. Twit 3% (1182)
7. TwitterFox 2% (1114)
8. movatwitter 2% (718)
9. P3:PeraPeraPrv 1% (459)
10. Netvibes 1% (266)
11. TwitBin 1% (260)
12. Twitter Tools 1% (222)
13. TwitterPod 0% (159)
14. TwitterIrcGateway 0% (152)
15. Snitter 0% (147)
16. BeTwittered 0% (106)
17. Tweetr 0% (95)
18. NatsuLion 0% (84)
19. Facebook 0% (79)
20. PocketTweets 0% (70)

If you like new microblogging tools such as Twitter and Pownce, you may have an account at more than one of these services by now. With HelloText, you can cover all of your accounts with a single text message which you can opt to send to Twitter, Pownce, Plaxo, Tumblr, Jaiku, Facebook, Frazr, Meemi, GoZub, or Beemood at the same time.

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Nick Wilsdon of e3internet has pulled together some useful posts on mastering the popular microblogging app, as well as 5 Tips to Make You a Better Twitter User. Wilsdon advises twitterers to:

1. Use the @ Symbol to Reply to Other Users
2. Keep on Top of Replies
3. Get a Reader for Twitter Updates
4. Promote Your Material Responsibly
5. Keep it Interesting For Your Followers

Check out the full article for his commentary.

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