Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter has grown by leaps and bounds. And the world’s leading microblogging social network is getting more business-friendlier than ever, it launched a revamped online business center a little while ago. Despite the phenomenal popularity of Twitter, certain features such as “Lists” are grossly underused, especially amongst the business user fraternity. Twitter lists feature has been around since November 2009 …

Twitter at 5 reflects a social network that has gone from strength to strength, it has come a long way from a small startup to becoming the world’s fastest growing social network, from “just setting up my twttr” to over 200 million people tweeting 140 million tweets of 140 characters daily. It has become not just a social networking platform …

Five years ago, a micro-blogging site with 140 character messages was ridiculed for its unusual approach to social media. Most Internet experts believed Twitter was an experimental idea destined for failure.  On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet and the rest as they say is history. And now five years since then, it’s fair to say …

Which is are the best Twitter apps for Android? Twitter is the fastest growing social networking platform and Android the fastest growing mobile OS platform. If you have an Android powered device and want to choose from a variety of Twitter Apps, then you are not going to be disappointed, simply because that there is plenty to choose from. Here …

Google’s Social Search experiment has finally come of age. The online search giant yesterday announced that Social Search results will no longer be relegated to the bottom of Google search pages. Instead, relevant posts from the social media accounts of a user’s friends will now be integrated into the list of results. The social search results include activity on Flickr, …

War is the last thing a country needs. Whether we choose to accept it or not, it’s a reality though. Thankfully, the humane aspect of wars continues to live in our hearts through noble gestures such as the initiative by Girl Scouts in Troop 612 and Troop 1145, who sell cookies to be sent to American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan …

It is a known fact that Twitter does not have its native feature for sharing photos and videos, which most feel is a downside but having said that you have plenty of options in the form of third party apps which compensate that and again most people use TwitPic to share photos, here are 9 websites to use in case …

Tweeting is an art. Few good men do it better than anybody else and Curtis Jackson (better known as 50 Cent) surely belongs to that club. The rapper helped penny stock company H&H Imports, which he received 30 millions shares of in October, make $50 million US in one day by tweeting about it to his 3.8 million followers. Though …

If you’re in business in any capacity, you understand the importance of targeting your market and customer. By knowing your customer’s demographic, psychographic, and geographic traits, as well as their age, values, and buying patterns, you make the most effective use of your marketing dollar. But how or where do you get that information? To gain insider information about your …

The New Year couldn’t have started off on a better note for Apple loyalists and Twitter lovers such as me who’ve for long craved about getting a quality Twitter client on the Mac platform. As they say, better late than never – the much improved Twitter for Mac has finally arrived on the newly launched Mac App Store. Being an …

Happy New Year to all smedio readers! With the holiday season coming to an end and the arrival of Year 2011, it’s time to get back to “business as usual”. From a business perspective, it’s the best time to get ready for the New Year – formulate business plans and develop your marketing strategy for 2011. Year 2010 saw a …

Most of us are very familiar with and have been using Twitter as a means to connect in our respective online social networks. This application allows us to broaden our network of friends online and update our contacts with what is happening in our lives through our status updates. However, it can only give as much; we have to type …

The year 2010 is about to end and the whole world is eagerly looking forward to celebrate New Year as we step into 2011. It’s a good time to make your Social Media resolutions for year 2011 as well as look back at the very best of social media for year 2010. Though social media has been around for several …

Christmas has surely come early for Twitter business users this year – the micro-blogging site yesterday unveiled its revamped online business center which makes it easier for users to buy ads and promoted content. “We’ve seen tremendous growth in the creative ways businesses and organizations are leveraging Twitter, and we want to make sure you have access to their great …

It is very easy to start an e-business nowadays. You may decide to start a new e-business, or you may start promoting your already established off-line business on the internet to attract local, national and international consumers for the products and services produced and offered by your company or team. Internet is obviously one of the strongest medium to promote …