The Recent Study on 125 Students,who use Twitter for their study use. Aside from higher GPA’s the Twitter enable students were also 2x more engaged in the classroom. And The Study says, 94% of First year Students use Social Networking Sites. take a look below:
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Tulalip : Answer to Google + ,Twitter and Facebook from Microsoft?
Weeks after Google launched Google+, rumors have begun making the rounds that Microsoft is working on its own social networking platform (Tulalip). The word ‘Tulalip’ is an Indian tribe located just north of Seattle. It offers a welcome note saying, “find what you need and share what you know”.
The image appeared briefly on a site with the URL "Socl.com," according to a report on Fusible.com. The image has since disappeared. Later, the Socl.com website displayed only a message stating that Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the Web. "We didn't mean to, honest," the message reads.
A Whois registry search and a DNS lookup for Socl.com indicate Microsoft owns the URL.
That raises the question: Was the exposure of Tulalip on Socl.com really an accident, as Microsoft claims, or is it really part of a wily marketing campaign to stir up interest in Microsoft's offerings and take some of the attention away from Google+?
Microsoft isn't telling.
"We have no more information at this time," Microsoft spokesperson Jackie Lawrence echoed that statement in response to a request for comment.
7 Success Secrets Of The World's Largest Blog
Huffington Post is a blog that was started by Arianna Huffington as a left- leaning blog and now has 20 vertical areas including religion to technology and it is about to add travel. It is interesting to note that they have just hired a technology industry veteran (not a traditional media publisher) Greg Coleman as their their president and and chief revenue officer who has previously worked for Yahoo and AOL.
Some of the numbers for Huffington Post to provide some perspective from its entry 5 years ago to its current success.
- Over 50 million page hits and more than 12 million unique vistors in May according to Compete.com.
- Moderates 3 million comments a month using 30 moderators
- 50 Editors
- 21 Verticals
So what are some of the secrets behind the success of Huffington Post?
1. Passion
Arianna Huffington revealed at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York that the secret to success is ‘Passion’ and the “obsessive compulsive nature of the web” is what first attracted to her to blogging and the ability for people to make a difference on the Internet by just pure persistentence and passion.
2. Social Media
They use social media and SEO (search engine optimization) tools to spread and share content virally fast and global. Each editor has SEO tools to optimize the content and social media tools right at their desks so they can connect their content to social media channels via Facebook connect or Twitter. The blog also allows readers to easily share the content with their followers and friends
3. Experiment Fast and Often
They can do this online and fast as they try different ways to grow the business from piloting different verticals and experimenting with different ways to ways to share the content on social media. In other words fail fast, cheap and often.
4. Focus On Powerful Niche’s
Huffington Post developed a focus on powerful emotive niche’s that provided a large enough audience to attract traffic. As well as politics Arianna started with entertainment, media, living and style.
5. Create Content Cost Efficiently
It is believed that the Huffington Post provides a platform for for 2,000 bloggers both known and unknown that she doesn’t have to have them on the weekly payroll
6. Source Resources
A venture capital company (Softbank Capital) invested $5 million into the blog site in Agust 2006.
7. Develop Powerful Partnerships and Networks
The Huffington Post has forged powerful partnerships with other big names in content areas such as Rolling Stone, Variety and Yahoo and has had influential politicians and celebrities contribute to the blog such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Madonna.
Why You Should Blog Before you Twitter
A blog does take effort, time and commitment and along with your website is the foundation or “HomeBase” for your content. The corporate blog should be the cornerstone to your social media strategy that will be read for years and will help establish you and your company as a thought leader that will get people coming back again and again to your website and blog.
A Blog is your homebase that you own and control and your company’s social media sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are the outposts that you should place some of your core content as appropriate for that particular channel.
In this video we look at some of the reasons why a blog is so important.
If you want more in depth comprehensive details go to my article “20 Reasons Why You Should Blog Before You Twitter”
So, do you prefer to Blog or Tweet?
How To : Build Your Brand On Twitter?
What is Twitter?
•Twitter is a social networking and Microblogging site that was started in 2006. In 2007, approximately 1.2 million tweets were posted.
•As of June 2010, Twitter has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million Times PER DAY.
•Interestingly, most of the users on Twitter are Adults, not teens. Teens only make up 11% of the site’s demographics.
•Businesses use Twitter for customer service, marketing, and to monitor their reputation. It is also a place where you can assess client’s needs and research social trends.
•Twitter is where the conversation between you and prospective clients START. It is a place for building and maintaining relationships.
•If social media was a dinner party, then Twitter is where people would socialize before dinner was served.
Setting up a Twitter profile:
•Your Twitter profile is fully brandable. You have full control over how your profile looks (except for the format).
•Upload a picture of yourself. Preferably the same picture you use on other social media profiles.
•Use a custom background and color scheme that is consistent with your blog and/or website.
•TwitBacks.com: Backgrounds for your Twitter profile.
•Have fun with your bio. Be professional but show your personality.
•Link to your blog rather than directly to your business site. If you don’t have a site link to one of your other social profiles.
Twitter definitions:
•RT = Retweet: When you repost another member’s tweet to your audience.
•Hashtag: Twitter’s version of categories. You can tag your tweets as well as search by hashtag for tweets other users have tagged.
•Link Shortners: Use Bit.ly and similar services to truncate long links to allow more room for the tweet.
•Follow: To sign up to see a person’s tweets on your home page.
•Unfollow: To stop getting updates of a person’s tweets
•DM: Direct Message. Twitter’s private messaging function.
•Trending Topics: Topics that are popular for the moment
•Lists: You can categorize your followers and people you follow into lists to help organize your account. (private or public)
Twitter Etiquette:
•DO NOT SPAM. Spam on Twitter comes in several forms.
1.Only promoting your stuff 24/7
2.Sending DMs that ask people to visit your business or buy your stuff
3.Sending tweets to people asking them to visit your site or buy your stuff
4.Letting robots tweet for you
•However, don’t go the other way and never promote your stuff. Find balance.
•Log in regularly to check and respond to messages. 100% automation is not recommended. People want to talk to you, not a robot.
•Thank people for following you and retweeting your content.
•Don’t be afraid to be controversial but be smart about it. Engage in friendly discourse. Avoid public Twitter arguments.
•However, unless you can take the heat, avoid hot button topics like religion and politics.
•Promote your Twitter account like any other web property you own.
•Don’t just talk business. Talk about your other interests as well. Be a real person.
•Find what works for you and do it.
Tweeting:
•You are there to connect with people. Therefore your tweets should be interesting and high quality.
•Focus on providing information that your target audience is interested in receiving.
•It is okay to tweet links to your blog and business. However, it shouldn’t be the only thing you are tweeting.
•Tweet tips and advice to help your target audience with their problems.
•Comment on the tweets of other members.
•Avoid Auto DMs or at least make them interesting
•Tweet consistently. Once every day, 5 times, etc.
•Find a few blogs in your industry and tweet links to articles of interest from them.
•How much you tweet is a personal preference. Some people love to talk and some don’t. The important thing is to be consistent.
•Try to tweet at times when your target audience is on the site. Popular times include in the morning before work, at lunch time, and after work.
•Retweet and promote other people.
•Engage in conversation.
•Be yourself. No one else can do the job.
The Wrong Way To Tweet : Example in video
My Twitter Marketing Strategy:
•Self promotion – to my blog, articles, etc.
•Promote other people
•RT people
•Funny stuff – StumbleUpon & find on other blogs
•Quotes
•3rd party blogs. ( Mashable, Social Media Today, Tree Hugger, Discovery, Inc Magazine)
•Tweet Tips and Suggest Tools
•Participate in FollowFriday and EcoMonday
•Engage, Engage, Engage
•Have Fun
Getting Twitter followers:
•Add a link to your Twitter account to your website
•Add a link to your email signature
•Place a link on your business cards
•If you do article marketing, link to your Twitter account in your resource box.
•Place a link in your forum signature
•Follow other people. Most people will follow you back.
•Engage, engage, engage
•Avoid programs that claim to get you thousands of followers. Most times they only cause your account to get banned for spamming.
•Share your link on other social networks
Building Your Twitter Network:
•Know who you want to network with. Determine who you target audience is.
•Use a Twitter directory, like Twellow to find people by categories. Add yourself to directories so people can find you.
•Some people follow everyone and some people don’t. This is a personal choice. Use lists to manage your followers and contacts.
•Go for quality over quantity. Take the time to get to know the people in your network.
•Don’t be intimidated by “Big Names”. If you like what they are saying, follow them. You may be surprised.
•Follow news sites for your industry so you can retweet interesting news.
•Don’t be afraid to unfollow people who have stopped tweeting, only tweet spam, or don’t engage with you. Quality over quantity.
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Twitpic Is Still King Of The Twitter Photo Sites
Twitpic is still the king of Twitter photo sharing sites, according to Compete's data showing each site's audience size. But Yfrog and Plixi (formerly Tweetphoto) are not far behind. And Twitpic's traffic seems to be trending down.
Meanwhile, the "next-gen" Twitter photo apps, Instagram and Picplz, are growing nicely. Instagram -- which has barely developed its website -- is already about one-fourth of Twitpic's reach, according to Compete. And Picplz is growing the fastest, relatively speaking, as it taps the fast-growing Android platform.
(A better look at Picplz's data is on Quantcast, where Picplz is "quantified," showing actual traffic data. There, it says Picplz has about 630,000 global unique visitors over the last month, up from about 200,000 at the beginning of the year -- nice growth.)
Caveat: This isn't necessarily the best snapshot of usage or revenue for these sites. A lot of usage is on smartphones, and Compete isn't a way to measure it. And Instagram and Picplz are both ad-free at the moment, and may eventually make their money via mobile apps, so their web distribution aren't currently as important. But the data should be roughly directionally correct.
Bigger picture: This is a nice race to be in right now, but we still expect Twitter to eventually create its own photo sharing service. That could change the fortunes of many of these sites.
Related: Here's How Twitter Is Laying The Foundation For Its Own Photo Sharing Service
photo credit : chart of the day.
9 Ways To Be Positive on twitter
1. Appreciate! The word itself means “To be thankful or show gratitude for” and “To admire and value greatly”. If you appreciate people, you will be appreciated too. Be thankful and express your gratitude.
2. Focus on the good things: There are all kinds of things circulating on twitter. Make sure you focus on the good ones. The kind of experience you get on twitter, depends on the kind of people you follow. If you follow people who only tweet negative stuff, chances are, you might turn into a negative person too. Don’t forget, tweets can influence you.
3. Spread the good vibes: Give! Share! If you feel happy, tweet it! You might be responsible for someone’s wide smile at some other corner of the world. That’s the magic of twitter.
4. Take action in your real life: Don’t just preach, practice. If you love to tweet quotes (I do), try to implement all those good thoughts and ideas in your offline life too. Trust me, you will see a considerable and significant change (for the better) in your thinking process.
5. Make an effort to make a difference. Twitter is a great medium with a large outreach. Whatever you tweet, reaches tons of people. If your tweets are positive, you will get a positive feedback. You won’t even realize how you might have made someone’s day with your tweet! And it’s an amazing feeling.
6. Avoid negative influences :
7. Find an optimistic quote or saying:
8. Don’t get angry:
There will be people who disagree with your thinking. Initially, I used to retaliate.
Now, I just ignore. You will feel like giving them a taste of their own medicine and
replying to them in the same hateful tone. But that would just lead to further fights.
Instead, stay calm, and don’t reply to them. If it gets out of hand, remove them from
your timeline.
9. Stop comparing yourself to others: Everyone cannot have a million followers on twitter. Twitter isn’t a popularity contest. As long as you have positive people who share and care, in your feed, you’re good. Don’t focus on constantly increasing the number, focus on the people.
Twitter’s growth to outpace Facebook (?)
Even though Facebook is the No. 1 social network with more than 500 million users, the site's growth rate is beginning to plateau. According a new report from eMarketer, Twitter is set to raise at a much faster rate than its rival in 2011.
The research firm expects the figure of adult Twitter users to grow from 16.4 million in 2010 to 20.6 million this year - a 26 percent growth rate. in the meantime, Facebook is expected to gain 16 million members in 2011, a growth rate of only 13 percent.
"EMarketer's first-ever estimate of the U.S. Facebook population presents a realistic assessment of actual usage, in contrast with widely publicized data that track numbers of accounts, location traffic or other metrics that don't fully reflect usage," said eMarketer senior analyst Paul Verna. "Our figures substantiate that well over half of U.S.
With the arrival of new users, both social networks are adding new digital promotion features for brands. Facebook recently rolled out a new Sponsored Story ad type while Twitter is experimenting with a self-serve ad stand.
Courtesy : ricg.com
What should be Your Social Media Goals?
You log into twitter and facebook everyday, you read tweets, you comment on your friends facebook wall, you retweet blog post, at the end of the day, what are your social media goals? What are you trying to achieve from social media?
A tweet caught my attention recently. It was from Jerimiah Owyang aka @Jowyang, in his tweet, he mentioned that if we post 20 tweets a day we should blog and pay ourselves first. It got me thinking about the amount of time that we spent on social networking daily and whether it is influencing our productivity time.
I love twitter and I love spending time, reading and engaging with people. It is just who I am. I don’t spend much time blogging though, I have 113 blog post written at this point. Then it got me thinking if I should concentrate more time creating content blogs. Questions I @AskAaronlee .. oh wait that is ME.. . Time to re-write my own goal. @ChrisBrogans hit the nail when he said
“If you don’t stick to your goals, there’s no reason to put any time into social media, period”
So what are your social media goals ? Do you want to?
- Get attention from other bloggers?
- Make x-amount of money from social networking sites?
- Brand yourself better?
- Get the latest news?
- Connect with celebrities?
- Connect with influential users?
- Connect with new people outside your circle of friends?
- Get more leads for your business?
- Get new leads for your business?
- Get x-amount of followers on twitter?
- Get x-amount of likes on facebook
If you don’t have a goal, get one today!
photo credits: by JohnONolan
via:- askaaronlee.com
Raven Tools, Social Media, Timely, Twitter, Twoolr
We’re always trying to point out a few new tools that you might not have heard of or tried yet. These three definitely worth a shot. I highly recommend that you take some time poking around with them this week.
Timely
Timely helps you schedule Tweets for maximum impact. You load up your Tweets intoTimely, and by analyzing the activity of your followers and the impact of your last 199 Tweets, Timely will select a time to send that Tweet when it will get the most ReTweets, @replies and click-throughs. This is a good tool to consider if you are looking for a way to drive traffic for your blog posts, to an event sign-up page or maybe to a survey. Right now you can track reach and ReTweets. It’d be cool to watch how they develop out the analytics on this even further, maybe offering even more conversion tracking.
Track the performance of your Tweets with Timely
Raven Tools
Raven Tools combines your SEO and social media efforts. It’s social search time baby, that’s just the way it should be. Manage your Twitter account, Facebook page and blog content from Raven Tools, plus track your keyword research and AdWords campaigns. This is truly an internet marketing tool that is suitable for many different types of businesses – startups, agencies, small businesses, independent SEOs. It’s just a great product for a great price. I love the clean interface, too. For more information about this great tool see onefortyer @KristinEDziadul’s great blog post about why she chose Raven Tools above other social media software.
Twoolr
Do you like TweetStats? You’ll love Twoolr. This tool offers a nice quick analysis of your Twitter account. If you’re at an agency and looking for a free or cheap tool to use for a client, I’d check this one out. You’ll get:
- Word cloud: This is some light keyword analysis. It’ll show you which words are used in conjunction with your most ReTweeted Tweets, which is helpful.
- Account growth: Graphs offer general trends on your progress. You can customize these graphs by date.
- Usage: These graphs compare the types of Tweets you are using, how much you are broadcasting your own content versus ReTweeting and @replying your community
This is good for a beginner look at a company Twitter account. You can also subscribe to receive your Twoolr report by email which I could see as being helpful. Check it out!
