Here are some of the best practices I’ve observed of folks who are so-called “experts” at using Twitter. #1: Influence Is Important Talk about Klout and PeerIndex at least once a day. You might say anything – that the service … Continue reading
From the Google Zeitgeist conference Tuesday, the WSJ reports: Mr. Schmidt said Google hoped to at least get access to Facebook users’ contact lists so that people can grow their social network on Google. He said, without elaborating, that Google’s … Continue reading
As I have said many times previously, if 2009 was all about the hype of Real-time, the future is all about capturing Relevance in real-time. Datasift has partnered with Twitter to get the full Twitter firehose and is building a … Continue reading
Here are 5 suggestions for Twitter’s “Who To Follow” feature, that I have seen being mentioned in the Twitterverse: Avoid users who have set tweets as Private Avoid users who haven’t tweeted for past 15 days or have less than … Continue reading
Twitter is rolling out a new feature to help you discover new people to follow: The algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are … Continue reading
This is a companion post to How I Live and Breathe Google Reader. A few people have asked for some of my stats, so I am sharing them too. Objectives behind using Twitter Different people use Twitter for different purposes. … Continue reading
This is how the events launching new social network features compared: Pretty self-explanatory.
On the first day of the Chirp developer conference, Twitter announced “Annotations”: The feature will allow developers to “add any arbitrary metadata to any tweet in the system.” So, just like a tweet can today be transmitted along with information … Continue reading
I’m having a hard time deciding whom to follow on which network with duplicate shares everywhere. The problem is compounded further by folks who auto-share from one network to another. There is no value in following people who share the … Continue reading
This post is a collection of small observations that may not be individually “post-worthy”. New Style ReTweets with @Replies We all know that @Replies to you are visible only in the home timeline of those following both you and the … Continue reading
