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How to Retweet Properly

Posted on 13 April 2010 (13)

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2010 is becoming the year of Internet laziness. Many have given up blogging (yes, not updating your blog in the last few months counts as giving up too) and have joined the ranks of the Twitterverse.
One simple tip will get you noticed above most Twitter users: Spend an extra 30 seconds before automatically [...]

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Twitter Reality Check: How Many Followers Should You Really Have by Now?

Posted on 19 January 2010 (21)

When I look at some of the folks on Twitter these days, I find it incredible that some of them have 50,000, 500,000, or even over a million followers. If you aren’t famous in your own right, why are all these people following you?

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Twitter Adds (and Removes) Retweets (Beta)

Posted on 11 November 2009 (5)

Some of you may have noticed a new Twitter Retweet logo marking your friends’ RT’s. Since users, the originators of the term, have been utilizing “RT” (followed by the author’s @name) almost as long as Twitter’s been around, and applications such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic implemented the feature long ago, what took Twitter so long [...]

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Plurk Community: You’re Doing it Wrong

Posted on 02 November 2009 (9)

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I remember when Plurk first came out.  At first glance its user interface was different but once you got to spending some time on the site, it was pretty cool.  As luck would have it, Plurk also came around when Twitter was having some of its worst downtime in history.  Take that, and [...]

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How Efficient is Customer Service on Twitter?

Posted on 16 October 2009 (12)

The customer is always right.
This a phrase that anyone working in customer service should be fully familiar with.  While frequently known, albeit infrequently implemented in the “real world,” the saying has taken on a new meaning with the dawn of a new era on the Internet.
Social media has give a voice to the masses; [...]

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