This is the audio from my presentation at Tweetcamp in San Antonio in July 09. The audio is a little rough, so I decided to make it a free podcast instead of something that you had to sign in to get. It’s about 22 minutes and I talk about Twitter and your search engine rankings. [...]
Podcast: Tweetcamp San Antonio 09
The fallacy of followers
There is a common fallacy on Twitter and if you fall for it you’ll likely end up disappointed with your Twitter experience. The fallacy is the “follower fallacy.” The common wisdom was, or is, that you need a lot of followers on Twitter to be effective. The more followers the better. The more followers you [...]
Twitter for local business
Scott Stratten over at his unmarketing blog wrote a really good post about how businesses can use twitter to engage with clients in their local area. In a nutshell, the point is to stop marketing and start engaging. Don’t just do a simple search for people on twitter in your local area and then start [...]
Pornographers on Twitter and what that means
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 [...]
It's all about the search results
Have you seen the new Twitter homepage? I don’t usually log in to Twitter from the homepage since I usually tweet using tweetdeck or Peoplebrowsr, but wow. The new page pretty much tells you where Twitter is heading. It’s all about the search. Just replace the word “Pentium” with the phrase “search results” in this [...]

