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News – What’s Happening—and Where?

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:05:39 +0000

Every day, millions of tweets are created. These little bursts of information are about anything and everything, they make Twitter a hub for discovering whats happening right now, anywhere in the world. A recent burst of interest in location sharing applications, games, and services has many Twitter users excited about appending geographic data to some of their tweets.

Not everyone wants to add their current location to a tweet so this feature is off by default and must be activated to use. Check out How To Tweet with Your Location to learn how you can turn it on. People who choose to add this additional layer of context help make Twitter a richer information network for all of us, location data can make tweets more useful.

Lets say Im at my office and I hear a loud boom. It sounded serious, so I search Twitter for boom. Among the first results could be someone who tweeted Boom go the fireworks! This could be anywhere in the world. However, if that person had activated the new tweet location feature then the neighborhood data under the tweet would read, SoMa.

Now I know its just fireworks going off in my neighborhood. Boom! Plus, the word SoMa is linked to a Google map so I can explore a bit more. There are many ways location data can be useful when paired with tweets. For more information on how this feature works, be sure to check out our help article, About the Tweet With Your Location Feature.

Update: Forgot to share that this feature is initially available only to US users with more countries on the way and wanted to mention the fine folks at Maponics, our partner in providing neighborhood information.

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News – Flying Around With Hovercards

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:32:58 +0000

Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we’ve been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we’re introducing a feature called Hovercards that will be a handy way to interact with the folks behind each tweet.

On any timeline, as its namesake suggests, Hovercards are cards which appear when you hover over a username or avatar. The cards display additional information about the person and allow you to interact with them while staying within the context of your page.

One way we’ve found these cards to be useful is to find out more about retweeted people and follow them right there. You can also see more information with an expanded view of the card.

Sending direct messages to people you follow will also be possible with Hovercards so you can interact with tweeters without having to move off the page.

Hovercards will be rolled out in stages so not all of you will be seeing them right away.

News – Tweet Appreciation

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:48:18 +0000

Newsworthy, funny, interesting, or importanttweets find their way into our lives more and more. Sawhorse Media is organizing the second annual Shorty Awards as a fun way to show appreciation to the people behind the tweets we read every day. Voting has opened in 27 official categories with room for more at your suggestion. An awards ceremony, complete with 140-character acceptance speeches, will be held in March in New York City and live streamed on the web. Check out the official rules to learn how to vote.

How to Know Which Twitter Software to Buy

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:11:21 +0000

By Brian Carr

Having quality Twitter software is one of the best things you can do if you’re trying to grow your business by using Twitter, one of the fastest growing sites on the internet. These programs can help you quickly grow a targeted list while helping you save hours of work.How do you know which software is worth buying and which is worth passing on? Here are some simple yet helpful tips:

1) You can quickly choose which Twitter accounts to follow and which to ignore. Quality Twitter software allows you to add people based on things like who they currently follow, what keywords they’re using in their Tweets, their geographic location, stuff like that.

2) You can quickly unfollow people who didn’t follow you back. Since there’s no point in following someone unless they’re following you, programs that automate the “unfollow process” can save you tons of time.

3) You can set up automated direct messages so that whenever someone follows you, you automatically send them a personalized message thanking them, or simply sending them a link to your website.

4) You can set up your Tweets in advance to go out at specific times. This way you won’t have to sit in front of the computer all day long sending out Tweets.

Luckily, there are plenty of great software packages available that offer these services, and most of these software are very reasonably priced, making Twitter software one of the best investments you can make for your business.

After all, we all know the money is in the (Twitter) list!

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