I read somewhere that applications and new technology don’t take off unless they have a “killer application” or a “killer app.”  For twitter, you’d think the fact that news usually breaks first on there, or that the first pictures from just about any big news event show up on twitter first (remember the plane in the Hudson?). You’d think that news delivery would be Twitter’s killer app.
You’d be wrong.
Follow me down this path for a moment…
I was thinking about the fact that there are pornographers on Twitter. To me, it …

OK, so maybe not on steroids, but definitely this is an enhanced twitter search. The other day, I explained what the twitter hash tags are and how to use them to track trending conversations on Twitter.
Of course, the downside of trending conversations, is that it’s only a matter of time until some idiot spammer gets wind of the trend and starts sending the same message over and over again. Invariably, the message will say something like:
“Get more info about my amazing online assistance, money making, shocking lead pulling, brand …

I’ve been working a lot on my twitter presence. As such, I’ve discovered that there are some things that are more likely than other to get me to unfollow you. In talking to other tweeple (people on twitter) I discovered that a lot of us share these same guidelines.
Without further ado, here are my 5 things:
1. Marketing bot.
If all you do, is twitter about your program, your ebook, your this, your that, your the other and how I can buy your stuff using a special coupon or whatever, you’ll …

One of the neatest things about Twitter is that it is easy to automate many functions. One of the most misunderstood and misused functions on Twitter is the direct message.  There are third party services that let you automatically message people that sign up to follow you on Twitter, I do not believe that you should auto direct message people when they follow you.
Let me say, that I used to auto-message people when they followed me back in my early days on Twitter. I thought that a quick welcome message …

In case you don’t know, by default twitter allows you to follow up to 2000 people before limits start to kick in. Some of the limits are based on the number of followers that you have, and other limits are based on things like API calls and whatnot that only the uber-geeks among us understand.
Most people won’t care about the 2000 people follow limit since they have no interest in following more than that number anyway. Regardless, I think that a lot of people will want to know how …

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ve probably heard of this thing called Twitter. People all over the news are talking about it. Perhaps the people at your office or school have been talking about it as well. Some people say that teenagers and college kids use it, teenagers say old people use it, but you’re still left with the question: “Who uses twitter?”
I guess I should mention, that twitter is a micro-blogging service, and by micro-blogging it means that you can only type 140 characters at a …

On twitter, the criteria or guidelines to use for choosing somebody to follow are to a certain degree, something very personal. Ultimately you decide what is worth your time to follow or to read up on.
If you don’t know where to start, I can give you a few suggestions.

Something you can do, is to do a search for a things that interest you using twitter search. You can start your search by visiting search.twitter.com and do a search in there for a subject that you are interested in.For example, if …

So we’re talking about twitter, which is a micro-blogging service that has seen exponential growth in the last few months. Twitter has been in the news media more and more in recent times which has exploded the ranks of its users.
So in this article I’m going to talk a little bit about how to get people to follow you. What sorts of the things should you twitter about that will get people to follow you and more importantly, what are some things you should not twitter about that’ll most likely …

If you’ve turned on your TV in that last few months or so, you’ve probably heard about something called Twitter. News reporters on TV, news reporters in print, radio personalities etc. all are talking about something called “Twitter.” You may have asked yourself at some point recently:
“What the heck is Twitter?”
In a nutshell, Twitter is a micro-blogging website or service. What you do when you micro blog, is that you post a short message or blog post to your account. Twitter limits you to 140 characters or less, …

What is twitter?
Twitter is a micro-blogging website or service. What micro-blogging means is that it is a site where you can blog but you are limited to 140 characters or less.
In 140 characters you need to convey the message that you want. Usually it’s something short, like what you’re having for lunch, the plane they just crashed off the runway, or the pictures of the terrorists in Mumbai.

Who uses twitter?

Twitter has a global reach, which is one of its strengths. The way it works is like this, after you …