Twitter Small Business Solution
If you ever wondered how small businesses could benefit from Twitter, this might be the solution.
TwitterHawk is a start-up that aims to provide a targeted marketing solution for small businesses through twitter.
How does it work?
TwitterHawk says:
Let’s say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).
TwitterHawk would then periodically (at a frequency determined by you) find twitter posts that mentioned coffee by users that are actually located within 8mi of Queens, and send them one of your pre-defined replies from you such as
‘@cracksh0t Have you seen our new Coffee Shop in Queens?’ or
‘@loxly What is your favourite blend? We’ve just opened a new store in Manhattan and would love to know what you think’
How Much Does This Cost?
Free.
Visit TwitterHawk site for more information.
What do you think about the service?
12 Tools To Synchronize WordPress And Twitter
If you are a blogger and a tweeter, chances are that you are looking for ways to synchronize these two powerful platforms to use them effectively. There is more to synchronizing wordpress and twitter than sending a auto-tweet when you publish a post. Here are a selection of 12 free tools to sync twitter + wordpress.
Anwanore’s Widget allows you to post latest tweets into your blog.
RSS to Twitter will convert PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter.
Sidebar Widget allows you to create a highly customizable widget for the sidebar. This will work if your wordpress theme is widget-enabled.
SimpleTwitter enables you to easily add Twitter messages to wordpress theme.
The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
Twitter Badge is the official javascript code that allows display of badges showing your tweets.
Twitter Feed posts your blog updates to your twitter account. You must login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
Twitter for WordPress – Another plugin that creates a twitter widget.
Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
Twitter Tools – This plugin by Alex King allows you to archive your tweets, make blog posts out of them, send tweets from your sidebar and lots more.
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
Twitt-Twoo allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates. Stylish and easy to customize from the options page.