Tag: social media
How to Create a Bubble Tweet | Video on Your Twitter Page
Bubble Tweets are so much fun. They offer a way for you to connect with your Twitter friends in a more personal way since they allow you to talk to your followers instead of just using text. Before Bubble Tweets came along, the only way to show your followers a video was to upload it to YouTube an ...
Does Twitter Make You a Nicer Person?
Have you ever noticed how nice the Twitterverse truly is? I sat back and stared at my Twitter stream today, which is often a source of inspiration to me, and I just looked at all the niceness oozing out of my Tweetdeck.
No wonder I’m on Twitter so much. I want to live in my Twitter world much o ...
7 Tips for Becoming a Twitter Badass
Let me start this post by saying that I am not personally a Twitter badass; however, I am friends with a lot of people who are, and I’ve been studying their tweeting style for a long time, and I feel like I have a good idea about how a person can develop into a Twitter badass.
Let me also say tha ...
How To: Send a Voicemail in a Tweet
A few weeks ago I received a tweet from the username @pocketsapp. The avatar was bright purple, so there was no way I could miss it. In the body of the tweet, it said, “you have voicemail from @ShellyKramer waiting to be heard at http://pocketsapp.com/voicemails.”
I clicked on the link and sure ...
This Should Be Considered a Twitter Crime
Most people I have talked to say that their biggest Twitter pet peeve is when someone sends them an automated direct message. Those actually don’t bother me anymore, I’ve grown strangely used to them and I just hit delete, not much aggravation or effort required there.
However, I have a Twitter ...
Twitter vs Love | According to Google
It’s no secret that many of us spend a lot of time on Twitter and we truly can’t imagine our lives without it. We wake up in the morning, we get on Twitter. Right before we go to sleep at night, we check our Twitter. At the same time, according to the New York Times, the number of people getting ...
The 5 Year Story of Digg, In 5 Minutes
The first time I ever heard of Digg was in 2006 when I bought the Business Week magazine that had Kevin Rose on the cover with the title, “How This Kid Made $60 Million in 18 Months.” That article was such an inspiration to me, and I still have it somewhere in my office.
Fast forward to today, ...
Top 12 Most Bizarre Things Ever Listed On Ebay
I use Ebay a lot. I love it. I’ve bought and sold hundreds of completely random things. I paid $6 once for a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy that my son wanted so badly. Yes, someone sold one of those ridiculously cheap toys to me for $6. If you can’t find it anywhere else, you can surely find it on E ...
My Top 5 Reasons To Love Twitter
By now you’ve probably figured out that all the writers on this blog love Twitter. We are all Twitterholics in our own way, and we have formed close friendship bonds because of it. Twitter has become such an ingrained part of my day to day life; I really can’t imagine what life would be like witho ...
10 Simple Tips for Those New To Blogging
I am not going to teach anyone here how to blog, this is just going to be a reminder for our friends and readers who have just recently started blogging or are in the process of starting one. When I was new at blogging I was lucky enough to learn from the best and for stuff I did not understand, I ...
Domino’s Pizza | New Recipe #Fail?
We’ve all seen it, the new Domino’s Pizza marketing campaign. It’s all over the internet and television. In case you’ve missed it, here’s the abbreviated version of what’s going on: Domino’s has a reputation for fast delivery of horrible tasting pizza. After receiving some harsh criticism from c ...
The Museum of Modern Tweets
This is the most creative and unique Twitter inspired artwork that I have seen in a while. As we all know, celebrities on Twitter aren’t known for their stellar tweets. Most of the time they are boring, or just about themselves, but we follow them anyway, to get a glimpse into their glamorous life ...
Tweeting At Work? | Ouch, This Hits Home.
I feel like a reporter writing this article because I’m going to share something with you that just happened to someone very near and dear to us all, but I’m going to keep his name out of it.
If you know who I am talking about, please do not put his name in the comments, let him remain anonymous, ...
How To: Not Suck At Writing Tweets
I never thought about this topic before this week when a friend of mine sent me an email asking me to teach her how to not suck at writing tweets. How can someone suck at writing a tweet? I looked at my fast moving stream of 23,000 people that I follow, and I studied the tweets as they passed by. ...
You blog a lot? | Get the “Bloggie” camera from Sony!
In a time when even animals have their own blogs it is apparent that there is a wide audience and focus group for companies to churn out new gadgets for. Blogging has really been taken to another level by the masses and pretty much every social networking service is by default and focused on the inc ...