Are you a TwitternOOb who needs help understanding tweeps who twitterise everything? We’ve provided a mini twictionary of twitterisms for you:
If you are new to Social Networking you may be interested in our Social Networking training course in Brighton, Sussex.
Please add your own using the comments.
Tweeps, Tweeple, Twittizens, Tweeters
People who tweet
Twitterjacking
Pretending to be someone else, usually a celebrity see Gordon Brown
Twitthore
Someone who follows anyone and everyone
Twitterholic, Twaddict
Someone with a tweeting problem
Tweetup
A real face to face meeting of people who twitter
Twittersona
A created twitter character, see God, Satan, and my personal favourite Alexanda Orlov founder of comparethemeerkat.com!
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Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, Personal Development, Social Media on December 18th, 2009| No Comments »
Google includes twitter in search – what does that mean for business?
As I’m sure many of you have heard Googles recent announcement that they have reached a deal with Twitter to include tweets in search results. Bing were first to announce a similar deal which also includes Facebook. The question is how will this affect Businesses who use social media platforms as a marketing and customer relationship management tool. (Want to learn more about optimising for search? See our Search Engine Optimisation Course).
- Searches will show real time results based on what Twitter users say.
- Marketing is not about selling anymore, it is about engaging customers. Its a hard pill to swallow for those stuck in their ways about marketing and sales. Content needs to communicate not sell, and businesses need to use communication tools such as Facebook and Twitter, and make it easy for their customers to share their information with the appropriate icons on their web pages.
- Preference will be given to URLs that are tweeted by users with more followers or authority, even more incentive to attract followers with authority, learn and research what these influencers want to tweet and retweet about and find and research who these influencers are, give them what they want and build relationships with them. The idea is to get involved with and start up conversations. This takes time so start now if you haven’t already. Time to work on your own influence so that you can use your own tweets to influence search results. Read the rest of "Prepare for the Google – Twitter search deal – 6 Top Tips"
Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, Sales & Marketing, SEO, Social Media on October 23rd, 2009| No Comments »
So you have your Twitter account, you can see who you are following, you can see who follows you and you can see which of those you are following are following you.
Great, but now you want to know:
- which people you are following are not following you
- who has recently stopped following you
- what are your contacts tweeting about
- who is a useless twitterer!
Those interested in building up their online presence using Social Media may be interested in our one day Social Media Training course (our one day SEO Training course is also an invaluable complement). There are loads of Twitter applications out there that can answer these questions for you here are just a few: Read the rest of "5 Useful Twitter Tools – sort out your followers"
Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, SEO, Social Media on October 13th, 2009| 4 Comments »
