Tag Archives: twitter
New Twitter Account
So as I mentioned earlier, I no longer show up in Twitter results. I tried to get it fixed, but it’s not worth my time anymore. I created another Twitter account with the same username. The old account was renamed. … Continue reading
I’m Banned from Twitter Search
Being in the Social Media Monitoring space, I often need to test certain functionality with Twitter Search. For my account, this is very difficult. For some reason, none of my tweets ever show up in Twitter Search. Have I been … Continue reading
4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business
I just read Gartner’s report on using micro-blogging (Twitter) in the enterprise and I can’t imagine the authors of the report have much experience with Twitter. The statement, “it is not imperative for every corporation to be actively participating at … Continue reading
Twitter as a Platform
I recently noticed a few companies using Twitter as a platform instead of a messaging system. For example, Alaska Airlines was experimenting with giving users the ability to get flight information when they tweeted their flight number. IM systems have … Continue reading
How to get Twitter followers fast
Once or twice a day I find a spammer that started to follow me. After a few hours Twitter finds them and their account is terminated. You can generally identify these users with a low number of updates, and a … Continue reading
Twitter Followers
I understand the twittequette where if you follow me, I’ll follow you. Is there any other requirement for following someone? Does everyone need to get something out of a follow relationship? I wonder what denversnowdude’s 839 followers are getting out … Continue reading
The Lemmings of Twitter
I do not use auto-followers for Twitter. I look at each one and decide if I will follow the twiticate policy of following people that follow you. I will generally follow anyone that follows me except if they are spammers. … Continue reading
How I update my status
I have long said, Twitter is not a product, it’s a feature. (Although the general population is not listening to me.) Since several sites now support some type of status, I wanted an easy way to update them at once. … Continue reading
Tweet, tweet
If I tweet online, will it make a sound if no one is there to hear it? Probably not. I finally got on the bandwagon and created a Twitter account. I have a shell script to update my status from … Continue reading
