I’ve been a user and a fan of Twitter since I got introduced to the service back in 2008. So working closely with Twitter to get the Twitter Buy Button integrated with Fanatics was already excited. But getting a retweet from the original brain behind he service is not something I could have imagined. Let […]
Twitter Engagement Testing > Are you using images for maximum impact?
Based on a post from MG Siegler, in which he describes the practice of posting images with text on Twitter, I wondered how my tweets with embedded images did in terms of engagement. A quick check with Twitter analytics gave me two interesting data points of last week tweets;Â One tweet got a massive engagement rate […]
In Post Tweet Buttons; Top or Bottom
I always wondered when people are inclined to share my posts here with their followers on Twitter. Is that right after the first paragraph or is it after reading the whole piece. Now, I don’t believe my writing is that inspiring that a lot of people would share it instantly, but a little test is […]
Genius Marketing: This is How You Launch A Book Successfully
Two years ago I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at SMX Sydney. I happily accepted as I had never been in Australia. On my trip to Down Under, I had the opportunity to get to know some of the other international speakers more closely. I already had met Marty Weintraub before, and […]
Happy for a ReTweet
Sometimes you can make people happy with a simple Tweet or Retweet. It’s so easy, but oh what a joy. Case in point; For a moment I tought @slashdot had retweeted me. Meh đ — Addiction Kerberos (@addkerberos) July 24, 2012 So, since I got the Slashdot Twitter account set up in my Tweetdeck, a […]
When You Control the Mail, You Control.. Information!
Can Twitter Become the Newman of the Internet? Parts of Twitters Master plan has been unveiled today, Twitter has become a data driven company, vastly becoming one of the middlemen  of the Interwebs. With the weekly email delivery of the Best of Twitter, is showing how content can be discovered through sharing by your social circle or […]
Twitter Short URL’s Conquer Techmeme
After the full roll out of the t.co short URL’s on Twitter last week, the preferred Twitter shorter URL’s are now conquering Techmeme as the target page of an article featured on the Tech News aggregator. See the earlier post on TheNextWeb: Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves and on this blog: Why Twitter […]
Why Twitters t.co is Brilliant
Yesterday I spend some time on Skype with Zee from TheNextWeb.com to give my perspective on his article. He needed an SEO perspective on the Twitter Short URL roll out, and what it would mean. You can read his article here: Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves. The conversation was brief, as Zee was […]
Instant Twitter Feedback
Twitter can be very helpful in a world where SEO SERPâs are changing based on location, personal preferences or keyword search sequence. If you have a question, you can get Instant Twitter Feedback if you simple ask your question on Twitter. I was very surprised to learn today, when I did a search for Black […]
Drinking Coffee out of the Fail Whale
A couple of weeks ago I tweeted: I just ordered a customized #FailWhale coffee mug at http://bit.ly/c2lfUz through @YiyingLu supporting the artist is key! Yiying Lu is the artist which created the picture of the Fail Whale, which became a well known pop culture phenomenon on the Internet due to the fact the Twitter team […]