Responsible Microblogging
Please be a responsible microblogger
- Don’t spam.
- Don’t try to decoy people.
- Don’t spread viruses.
- Don’t spread hatred.
- Don’t load junk onto servers.
- Don’t try to sell like a hawker.
- Create a voluntary following before you start to offer something for sale.
- Put yourself in the shoes of your followers and tweet. Ask yourself if you would like to receive the post you are sending.
- Is this a post all your followers MUST see?
- Oh yes, we can always have fun. Share a joke or a quote instead of ‘I’m sleeping’, ‘I’m bored’ …
- Remember that you are being watched by search engines and your followers. Publishing great pieces like “I’m drunk” etc will only harm your reputation.
- Remember that your Twitter updates go to your followers, will be saved in your archive, and (unless you have a private profile) post to the Twitter public timeline.
Personally, I am guilty of automating my twitter a/c with an app which turned to be a spam site that sent endless stream of tweets. This not only ended in annoying my followers and friends but also hurt my tweet timeline.
Bottom line: Think twice before allowing third-party apps to use your twitter credentials.
What are your thoughts? How else can we improve twitter / microblogging?
Google Analytics For Twitter
Combine Your Google Analytics Data with Twitalyzer
Many tweeters have reported that Twitter is one of their primary traffic referrers to their sites/blogs. but have no idea who your referrers are? Do you wonder how influential these referrers are? You can now load your own Google Analytics data into Twitalyzer in less than two minutes.
How to see your own Twitter referrals from Google Analytics:
1. In Google Analytics, go to “Traffic Sources” then “Referring Sites
2. In Google Analytics, find the referrer “/twitter.com” and click on that link
3. In Google Analytics, change the “Show rows” value at the bottom of the page to “500″
4. In Google Analytics, click “Export” at the top of the page and select “CSV”
5. Go to Twitalyzer home page and click “Browse …” and find the resulting .CSV file on your hard-drive
6. Now click “Combine Data!” to send the file to the Twitalyzer!
Happy Tweeting,
ShriNagesh 
New Marketing Microblogging Platform For Web Professionals
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Find & Manage Followers On Twitter With These 30 Tools
Twitter is all about contributing to the community there by gaining friends and followers. Here are 30+ ways to find and manage your friends and followers.
- Twitter’s Find people: This is the basic search facility provided by twitter to find people. You can find people from your aol, gmail, yahoo ID’s send invitations to people, or search tweeters by using a keyword. Ok, this is too basic and no secret. Read the rest of the tools.
- Twitter Search: Type in a search term and latest tweets related to the term will be displayed. Follow people who are providing interesting tweets.
- Alternatively, you can install twitter search plug-in. This will let you search without visiting twitter website. http://search.twitter.com/
- Twitter advanced search is cool tool. You can find tweets based on words, people, places, dates, attitude and links. http://search.twitter.com/advanced
- Twitter search operations: You could use the following Search Operators directly into the search box to find relevant tweets. Some Search operations:
twitter search containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator. “happy hour“ containing the exact phrase “happy hour”. obama OR hillary containing either “obama” or “hillary” (or both). beer -root containing “beer” but not “root”. #haiku containing the hashtag “haiku”. from:alexiskold sent from person “alexiskold”. to:techcrunch sent to person “techcrunch”. @mashable referencing person “mashable”. “happy hour” near:“san francisco” containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”. near:NYC within:15mi sent within 15 miles of “NYC”. superhero since:2008-05-01 containing “superhero” and sent since date “2008-05-01″ (year-month-day). ftw until:2008-05-03 containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2008-05-03″. movie -scary containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude. flight 
containing “flight” and with a negative attitude. traffic ? containing “traffic” and asking a question. hilarious filter:links containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs. - FOF: This is a flash application that shows tweeters who are following you and those you are following. You can manage your friends and followers easily.
- Tweetwheel is a very useful but takes time to load. Find out which of your twitter friends know each other.
- Twhither, Find out where your friends are and let them know where you are. This site is coming soon.
- TwitDir: Find everything from most-followed users, to top posters to top 100 followers – I wonder who that is?
- Twittearth brings the globe on your desktop and shows tweets all over the world
- TwitsLikeMe, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.
- Twitter Ratio, Twitter Ratio returns your TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio)
- Odd Follow, Tracks Twitter folks that make you go hmmmm – they follow too many people or follow mostly all women
- TwitterAdder : Type in your account and randomly add 20 follows
- Twitterholic shows the twitterers with the most followers, friends and updates
- TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area
- TwitterMap: Find users in your area who are tweeting
- TwitterSearch: Type in the term your looking for and find out who is tweeting about it!
- TwitterVision: Worldwide tracking of Tweets in real time. You can even make this your desktop wallpaper background.
- Twitterwhere?: Nice app that let’s you find twitterers within 50 miles of you.
- Twitterwho?: Find Twitterers by email address. lets you make multiple queries on Twitter’s people search at one time.
- Twellow team adds tweeters into their directory based on the tweeter’s bio. If you haven’t been added already, you can Get Listed. You can add yourself to a maximum of 10 categories and provide website information and other social media profiles.
- Twubble: Find popular twitterers that your friends are following. It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow
- Who Should I Follow? Helps you find other interesting people to follow on Twitter
- Twitter100, Twitter100 will let you see tweets from up to 100 followers one a single page.
- Twitter Karma, This is a Flash application, which helps you manage your followers.
- Verveearth is mapping the internet’s content onto a global map. Discover the voices of your world. Get started by exploring the map or registering to add your blog
- JustTweetIt is the tweeter directory. You can add yourself and find others in your niche.
- Micropersuasion’s Basic Twitter Search helps you search through Twitter blog posts and even search for people
- TwitSnap is a FREE widget that automatically provides Twitter status preview of a user. The widget will automatically parse your page and look for the @pattern, convert it into a link to user’s profile on Twitter and then provides a preview of the user’s most current status via a pop-up dhtml box.
- Want to spread a word beyond your followers? LazyTweet brings the lazyweb to twitter. Simply post a lazyweb request on twitter and LazyTweet will pick it up, expanding the potential number of people to answer it, going beyond your followers. Then come to the LazyTweet site to help answer other people’s questions. When a request gets an answer, we’ll let the questioner know.
The 7 Step Twitter Strategy
Did you hear all the buzz about twitter?
Twitter is perhaps the most popular microblogging service. It allows you to post brief and frequent posts through web, IM, SMS from mobile or from an app. It is ultimate way to network with people around the world.
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