It’s been a remarkable last couple of years for Twitter. When it launched, almost everybody questioned the real life value of a social network which restricted user messages to mere 140 characters. Since then, Twitter has been the epicenter of several political revolutions (Egypt, Libya and now, Nigeria), it’s served as a disaster management tool amid natural calamities like the …

As an avid Twitter user, I’ve never been averse to trying out third-party apps to improve my overall user experience. I’ve a habit of scheduling tweets and I strongly believe that’s one of the best ways to follow a well-defined tweeting schedule. It keeps my followers interested and ensures that there are no let-ups in my tweeting frequency. While there …

As a kid, I always wondered why change is necessary. On one hand, I was taught that if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. The other school of thought was all about the change is good philosophy and it made me realize that to change is difficult, but not to change can be fatal. None the less, the world’s leading …

People often ask me about which social network do I use the most. To be honest, I’ve never tied myself to any one particular social network and I use all leading social networks for definitive needs. I use LinkedIn as a professional networking and hiring tool, Twitter as a means for marketing, YouTube for video promotions and Facebook for advertising …

I’ve to admit that I’ve been focused mainly on Facebook and Google+ off-late. For me, it’s a fascinating proposition that Google and Facebook have locked horns in an intense battle of supremacy in the social media world. None the less, while the whole world has been keenly observing each move made by Facebook and Google+, other social networks have gone …

Besides becoming the worlds primary major real-time news source, Twitter is recognized as a place where one person can help another person no matter where they are. Because while Facebook helps you find your friends, on Twitter, you can reach the world. To help you get the most from Twitter, I’ve gathered together eight of the hottest Twitter tools out …

Recently Twitter introduced their own URL shortener. At first sight, there is actually nothing incredible about this you would think. When last week TheNextWeb’s Zee took a look at all their analytics he was struck by the facts. Twitter is by far the highest referrer of traffic. And then I took a look at our own blog and the picture was …

There’s little doubt that Facebook, Twitter and Google+ form the ‘Big Three’ of the social media world. While Facebook and Twitter have been around for a while, Google+ is a recent phenomenon that’s growing at a scorching pace. While I strongly believe that all of these social networks operate mutually exclusively, there’s been no shortage of social media experts and …

“Engagement” is a word in near overuse these days I found. Yet it remains to be the word describing the power of Twitter best. Creating a certain buzz around your account given that there are close to 500,000 new users on Twitter each day isn’t always easy. A few tools have been emerging recently which boast features that allow you to …

When Google+ launched, I knew that comparisons to Facebook are inevitable and many experts would be quick to claim that Google+ will dethrone Facebook as the #1 social network. However, challenging Facebook is no child’s play. The world’s leading social network silenced its critics by announcing that it now has a community of over 750 million users.

Google’s popular Realtime search feature quietly vanished during the long Fourth of July weekend. Why? The search engine’s two-year deal with Twitter providing it with access to Twitter’s live “firehose” of public tweets expired on June 2. Rather than continue offering pointless trending social media results minus instant tweets from the world’s most popular micro-blogging service, Google removed Realtime search …

Twitter is gearing up for an imminent rollout of a new advertising feature that will be more visible to everyday users than ever before. The micro-blogging platform is pushing its growing suite of promoted products to further increase advertising revenue. According to the chatter coming out of this year’s Cannes Lions Festival, an annual global shindig for the communications industry, …

There’s little doubt that tweets are the lifeline of Twitter. When Twitter was launched, critics were quick to point out that there’s not much you can do with 140 characters. However, I’ve always believed that the character limit has been a blessing in disguise for Twitter as it encourages users to write meaningful and to the point tweets. When Osama …

With the news, that Apple’s next generation iPhone 5 would offer users a system-wide integration of Twitter, but not of Facebook, the ongoing narrative of a war between the two social networking giants began to dominate the headlines once again. Why did Apple snub Facebook and its growing legion of nearly 700 million users? Will the partnership with Apple, propel …

Twitter, the wildly popular micro-blogging service, announced this week it’s acquiring the start-up keyword bidding company AdGrok for under $10 million. That’s not bad for a young company that just transitioned out of beta not too long ago. The AdGrok founders will immediately shut up shop and join Twitter in developing its fledgling “revenue engineering team.” That is, except AdGrok’s …