What’s So Special About Twestival?
Posted on March 22, 2010. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: charity, fundraiser, fundraising, global fundraiser, Gloria Bell, Philadelphia, Social Media, social media for social good, social networking, social networking for charity, Social Networks, Twestival |
The 2010 Twestival is nearly here. With this year’s Twestival, on March 25, cities around the world join in a collective effort to raise money on behalf of Concern Worldwide, an organization that works to improve life circumstances for impoverished people. Funds collected through Twestival will help support Concern Worldwide’s education projects. The Twestival event [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What is Twestival? And How You Can Join In The Fun.
Posted on March 18, 2010. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: 2010, charity, Concern Worldwide, fundraiser, global movement, good cause, philanthropy, power of a tweet, social change, social fundraising, social giving, Social Media, social media for social change, social network fundraiser, Twestival |
Twestival is a fun word. Twestival events are fun, too. The one in Philadelphia, Pa. has a scavenger hunt. Birmingham’s in the UK features a magician and dance party. A good time will be had by all. And it’s all for a good cause. A global event for giving Twestival, which stands for Twitter Festival, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )2009′s Word of the Year Is…
Posted on December 16, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: 140 Characters, 2009 word of the year, communication, messaging, microblogging, popular word, short form writing, SMS, Social Media, social media statistics, social media trends, social network, social networking, Social Networks, style guide for the short form, The Global Language Monitor, Twitter |
Can you guess what word in the English language was used more than any other in 2009? Hint: It begins with “T” and ends with “R.” Figured it out? Yep: Twitter wins this year’s word popularity contest. So says The Global Language Monitor, which recently declared that Twitter rose to the top of the most-favored [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Is Twitter Down, Or Is It Just You?
Posted on October 29, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: is twitter broken, is twitter down, Twitter, twitter fail whale, Twitter is down, twitter out of service, twitter outage, web site service outage, web site wil not load, website service outage |
The last couple of weeks have been extra busy for Twitter. Its temporary outage message, a.k.a. the “fail whale” has gotten a workout. This past Tuesday morning when I tried to get on Twitter, to no avail, the fail whale was nowhere in sight. All I got in my Firefox browser was a spinning icon [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Will You Please Retweet This Great New Blog Post.
Posted on September 24, 2009. Filed under: Communications Strategy, Twitter | Tags: best practices Twitter, contagious idea, Dan Zarrella, etiquette, Fast Company, how to get retweeted, innovation, most retweeted words, report, retweet, RT, science, Social Media, social media strategy, Social Networks, the science of retweets, Twitter, Twitter Power, viral idea, virtual, why people retweet, word of mouth marketing |
Have you noticed that more people are including “please retweet” in Twitter messages? This is interesting because in certain circles it’s considered bad Twetiquette (boorish) to request a retweet. Joel Comm in his bestselling book Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time writes: “While you can ask specifically for retweets [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Is Twitter Really Just A Bunch of Babble?
Posted on August 19, 2009. Filed under: Communications Strategy, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: Communications Strategy, Facebook, make money with Twitter, online marketing, Pear Analytics, Social Media, Social Networks, Twitter, Twitter 101 |
A new study claims that 40 percent of all content on Twitter is “pointless babble.” This of course instigated much babbling amongst Twitter users. Separating the good tweets from the chaff Conducted by Pear Analytics, and based on a two-week watch of the public timeline, the report includes a variety of statistics about Twitter. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Curious Consequences Of The Twitter Outage
Posted on August 9, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: cyber crime, DDOS, distributed denial of service, Facebook, hacker, LiveJournal, Social Media, social media hacking, Twitter |
Let’s hope everyone has recovered from the recent worldwide calamity that caused millions of people to experience a variety of disturbing symptoms such as twitching fingers, bulging eyes and fits of anxiety. All of which occurred as a result of last Thursday’s cyber attack that caused disruptions to a number of online services such as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )New Web Site Tells How To Make Money With Twitter
Posted on August 1, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: best practices Twitter, ecommerce, emarketing, make money with Twitter, Twitter, Twitter 101 |
Twitter may be a free service, but that doesn’t mean there’s no money to be had there. It’s fast becoming a favored channel of many marketers who are connecting with customers and ringing the register through tweets. Now Twitter wants to spread the word on how you too can capitalize on the power of its [...]
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