Twitter’s Brand New Landing Page – Gorgeous or Terrifying?
30 March 2010
A new emphasis Today, Twitter unveiled a new design for their homepage that they're testing out, with an emphasis on dynamic content that highlights the information flow. Their last homepage redesign was a stagnant page that put a new emphasis on search, but this new homepage is more three dimensional and acts kind of like a taste test for non users that can peek in on what Twitter is like before they sign up. Here's what it looks like in action (10 second video): According to Twitter, "All of our recent changes embrace the notion that Twitter is not just for status updates anymore. It’s a ...
Calling for Volunteers for February Tweetup – [All Spots Filled]
02 February 2010Volunteering to help UPDATE: within two minutes of posting, we got tons of volunteers, MAN Austin is generous! Thanks SO MUCH for all of your help, we'll see you at the Tweetup! The February Tweetup is coming up and we need help! I'm awful at manning the sign in table because I float around all hostess-y like, so I'm looking for help in hour blocks. All volunteers have to do is stand at the sign in table, guide people to making their name badges with their Twitter names on them and signing in with their Twitter name. Hell, we'll buy you a beer for volunteering, so why not? Spots to ...
Hubspot’s Top 50 Austin Twits- Follow With One Click
09 October 2009Easy as pie So, I'm not sure why pie is easy, but it is and so is this... Hubspot.com has a grader tool to judge your performance on Twitter via an algorithm and although it seems bots have been rewarded and placed at the top of the list, the top people per location changes every day (you can check Austin by clicking here). Want to follow 50 twitter users in Austin that Hubspot considers to be at the top of the game? Click here to follow all 50 (and yes, the list changes constantly, so this is just a snapshot in time)... seriously, one click and you follow them ...
Austin Tweetup- August
15 August 2009What's a Tweetup? A tweetup is a free happy hour open to anyone and broadcast via Twitter. It's a very organic event and it started off with a few of us having dinner and has evolved into a full blown scene. About 100 people showed up this Thursday at Iron Cactus in the Arboretum (who took great care of us by the way, you should host YOUR next event there), here's the RSVP list. If you want to comment on the pictures, tell your friends how stupid or gorgeous they look, you can do so over on Facebook. ...
Twitter is a Breeding Ground for Scams
09 July 2009You knew this was coming... If you've ever had an email address and had Prince Abdulla contact you offering to pay you $5k if you transfer some money for him or been told you can work from home and make six figures per year just by buying a starter kit, you know how the online scam world operates. It took longer than I expected, but Twitter has become a breeding ground for scams much like those that hit your email spam box or call your phone with private numbers. Better Business Bureau points fingers BBB has issued a warning to everyone about Twitter scams: The e-mail links to EasyTweetProfits.com, a company out ...
Find People in Common on Twitter
08 July 2009The Problem: When you have a Twitter account, people come from out of the blue to follow everything you say. You have no idea where they came from and you don't want to ask them directly in case you met at a party or through a friend and you have since forgotten. Who needs *that* embarassment? The Solution: TweepDiff is a simple tool that allows you to enter two twitter usernames (for example yours and your new follower's) and see who you have in common. This way you can see instantly what common ground you have AND you have an automatic conversation starter, "cool! I see you follow ...
Twitter Addiction Side Effects
07 July 2009Are You Addicted to Twitter? The fastest way to know if you're addicted to Twitter is to take the quiz. The other way is to look at the 46 phases of Twitter which range from "1. Hear the word Twitter. Scoff." to "25. Make it your life mission to get RT'd." to "44. Think to self, 'I should twitter that.'" to see if you've completed the final stages. 8 Side Effects of Twitter Addiction I'm no doctor and studies that I just made up in my head show that addiction to Twitter side effects can be: Verbal diarrheaing via SMS. Telling your children to behave or you'll Twitter ...
Dear Twitter, Please Change This
22 June 2009Dear Twitter, I've been on Twitter for an crazy long time and for personal reasons, I had to change my account to a private account. As you know, when someone requests to follow me, I have to manually approve them which is great because I can be sure of who is *not* following me and no one can see my tweets in a public timeline or on a third party application because I'm private. The problem is that it is an insane time sucker for me because I average 40 new follower requests each day and although from the approval panel I can allow them to follow by clicking "accept" or "decline" as shown below... ...I ...
The Ideal Length of Twitter Messages
18 June 2009Is there such a thing? Did you know there is such a thing as an ideal length for a twitter message (aka a "tweet")? Social networking site Twitter.com asks "what are you doing?" and allows users a maximum of 140 characters to respond (it was designed to be a single location where you could see the equivalent of everyone's away message). What is not surprising to me is that Hubspot research shows that a massive number of tweets utilize all 140 characters of the message limit: If everyone jumped off a cliff would you? Probably, ...
What Day and Time of Day Should You Twitter?
17 June 2009Twitter is loud, Twitter is quiet Depending on what time of day and on what day you use Twitter, it can be absolutely silent or it can be tremendously loud. According to Hubspot, Thursday late in the evenings is the most active time on Twitter and the least active time is super early on Saturday mornings. Does this mean that you should launch a product at 10:00pm on a Thursday night? Probably not- it's too loud. Should you roll out a press release at 5:00am on a Saturday? Probably not- it's too quiet.
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