My exploration of social media
Posts tagged Twitter
Magpie – Twitter Embedded Ads
Jun 10th
I recently came across Magpie for Twitter ads and found the idea interesting. I am not completely sold on the idea but it is definitely worth taking a look at. Here is a small video on what they do:
Magpie – Join the Conversation from Magpie & Friends Ltd. on Vimeo.
I singed up my Family Nester Twitter account to start using the service as a twitterer to get paid for the Magpie tweets that get put out from my account. I set mine to send out a Magpie Tweet no more than 1 for every 10 of my regular tweets. I also set it so I have to approve my tweets before they go out.
What I am hoping for with the Family Nester account is that the Magpie tweets will be specific to family life such that they still provide value to my readers – something that is of value to them. I do not want my account to appear like spam and drive away readers.
Let me know what you think about the concept. Should I use it or not?
3D Twitter With Minish
Jun 1st
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to interact with Twitter in 3D, well that is what the folks at Minish are doing. Minish gives each Twitter account a fish, who’s size apparently depends on your Twitter Status and visualize the tweeters as fish in 3D. Check out their promo video:
Currently they are not accepting new fish but as of July 13 they will begin their second Alpha testing and are adding 1000 new fish. To sign up you need to follow @Minishdotnet to reserve your fish – I did this and am still waiting for confirmation on my spot. I am assuming some time after the alpha we will get a chance to see
I came across Minish on Friend Feed (I love Friend Feed) from Brad Williamson who posted a bit on it there.
Why Your Business Needs to Twitter
May 27th
Twitter has been around now for a few years – early on the numbers were small. Now twitter is starting to be widely adopted – more and more people are hopping on. Your business needs to be there, and here’s why:
People are looking for you. More and more of the people you are trying to reach with your business are on twitter and looking for people, products and groups in areas they are interested in. If you’re not there, you’ll miss the opportunity.
Bring traffic to your Site. Twitter is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site. In your tweets you can post links to news, articles, promotions or whatever on your site and automatically drive traffic to that page on your site. This is extremely valuable whether you have just a blog or a large corporate site. The more followers you have the more you will have come, and within seconds of your tweet.
Keep your customers informed. Once you have your targeted following, twitter can help you to keep your customers informed on upcoming events, products, changes or company news. If you have a blog, you can link twitter to your blog to send out a tweet each time there is a new post – once it goes out you immediately get readers, just make sure that title is catchy enough.
Put a face to the company name. More and more value is being seen by having a company with a human face behind it. What better way to humanize your company than to have tweets from the owner available for both employees and customers to follow. Followers can respond to what you are doing and build a connection with you that may not have existed otherwise, thus building brand loyalty and happy customers and employees.
Respond real-time to news. Twitter can also give you the ability to respond quickly to news about your Business – good or bad. If it is good news, you can hop on twitter to spread the joy with everyone. If it is bad or false, you can respond quickly and get your side of the story out, or correct misinformation.
Find new opportunities. Twitter is also a great way to connect with other business and people. Each person or business is sharing ideas and experiences that they are having. It can give you a better idea of where you can provide new services or products that your public are demanding. Watching their tweets can also give you ideas on where you can improve upon current services and products.
As you get out there, and start tweeting, you will surly see some benefits I have not listed, these are just a few.
Some additional things I don’t mention here but will be writing on in the future are: how best to start using Twitter for a business, how to grow your followers the right way, and Twitter best practices.
Seesmic Desktop – Nice Facebook and Twitter Integration
May 25th
The last few days the new Seesmic Desktop application has been getting a lot of attention. When I first saw it late Friday night I installed it after seeing that you can maintain more than one twitter account with it. I have been using Tweet Deck for my Twitter and Facebook streams but with just one of the two twitter accounts I have (I have one for myself personally and one for the Family Nester Blog). If you could integrate two accounts on Tweet Deck I had not found it. After the install of Seesmic Desktop I was quickly impressed by what it could do and liked the interface a lot more than Tweet Deck. As a note, it states on it’s main page that it works for Mac and PC. I use Ubuntu, a Linux operating system, but Seesmic Desktop is an Adobe AIR program – I have Adobe AIR and it runs great so I figured I would try out Seesmic… and it works great. Check out this video on it: