Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Social Enterprise: 5 Tips for Getting Execs on Board
Even though there are now a plenitude of enterprise social media success stories, we know that driving home the business necessity of social media in the board room can be a daunting task. We turned to five people — Steve Rubel, Jade Bailey, Adam Brown, Angela LoSasso and Brad Nelson — intimately familiar with the Why? enterprise challenge to give us tips on how they go about getting executives on board. What follows are expert tips...HOW TO: Cultivate Your Brand’s Super Users
Far too many social media marketing meetings begin by asking the self-centered question, “How can we get more people talking about us?” Generating “social buzz” is not easy. Just because you tweet and blog doesn’t mean people are paying attention. What if you were to flip that traditional marketing question around and ask yourself, “How can we pay more attention to our users?”
That is the most common formula for...
Twitter Apps Still Recovering From DDoS Attacks
It was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man. It’s been three days since the attacks. Everything’s back to normal, right? No, not exactly. While Twitter, YouTube, Livejournal,...
Twitter’s Tough Week: The Social Media Recap
It’s been an unusual week in social media, most notable because many of us had to learn to live without it. A DDoS attack targeting Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and many other sites knocked the leading micro-messaging service offline and caused numerous problems with the leading social network, too. In other news, we looked into the age demographics of Twitter users, a mindblowing combination of Twitter and...
Should Twitter Crack Down on Pornography?
For marketers, Twitter has been a dream come true. It’s an open platform growing at a phenomenal rate. This combination can allow a single tweet to be seen by thousands of potential customers. But as Twitter continues its mainstream ascent, it has been targeted by spammers and scammers, something that doesn’t help legitimate marketers or users at all.
Yet despite its spam woes, Twitter has somehow avoided an overflow of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Twitpics Emergency Landing
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had his flight, uh, terminated on Friday evening when the cockpit of his jet filled with smoke. The plane, en route to Santa Monica Airport, instead touched down at Van Nuys Airport after the pilot reported the smoke coming from the instruments. Schwarzenegger, who has been TwitPic-ing many of his trips around the state, posted an image of the plane on...
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (”#”) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it.
The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it’s also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if...
5 Impressive Mashups of Twitter and Flickr
When you think about social media and photos, Flickr is almost always the first thing that comes to mind. When you want to share something with a lot of people, Twitter is the way to go. But what about when you want to share photos or make them dynamic? Well, as Apple might say, there’s an app for that.
Some great developers have seen the potential of connecting...