Showing posts with label Social Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Network. Show all posts

What's There For Me In Twitter ?

Twitter can be used for umpteen reasons some of which are as follows.

Live Connection With Contacts
Twitter is a live connection between you and your friends or family members. Prizes won, missing a safety pin, current song on your iPod, crossed stages in your video game or need of cash, any thing can be instant communicated through Twitter.

Social Reforms And Activities
You can raise your voice against any social injustice or create social awareness like #SavePlanet, #GreenEarth, #EnergyConservation etc. Political campaigns (#Obama), for a Presidential candidate, reasons to support or not can also be carried out. You noted the #hash before some of the above words. Want to know more then read this - Tracking Twitter Keywords: The Key To Success on Twitter.

Business Or Product Promotion
The most common use of Twitter today is the promotion of business , site, blog, product or service. Without this ability the growth of Twitter wouldn't have been till this extent. Majority of the Tweets now carry a URL which points to the blog or site introducing a product or a service. If you also intend to have any of these benefits, you have enough reasons to join Twitter.

Ramifications Of Basic Usage
The popularity of Twitter and the availability of API has led to the development of zillion apps and sites to increase the usability. For instance, sharing files , sharing Google Docs, managing personal finance, fitness management, travel management and much more can be done using these third party applications or sites.

What Is Twitter ?

Introduction
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay in touch, through small SMS type updates. The updates are an answer to a simple question, "What are you doing".Each message is 140 characters in length. It is also known as microblogging.
In order to use Twitter you should either have a computer or a mobile phone, along with an internet connection.



History
Twitter was crated in 2006 by Jack Dorsey,and is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.  
Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. Companies backing
Twitter are Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage, Spark Capital, and Bezos Expeditions (led by Jeff Bezos of Amazon).

How To Use Twitter
Crate an account on Twitter. Login and see the box " What are you doing". Write in the box and click on the Update button. Start sending messages, which are lovingly called tweets on Twitter.

References:
Photo Jack Dorsey from Creative Commons.Original Link to Photo By Joi.
Twitter About Page and  Wikipedia

Tracking Twitter Keywords: The Key To Success on Twitter

Why Track Keywords ?
If you are chatting on Yahoo! on a certain topic you need to join a chat room. The reason is that you want to share a thought related to that particular topic. Twitter doesn't have rooms but they have enough room for thoughts related to a certain topic and that is possible by a keyword or a #hashtag. When you search for a hashtag all the tweets mentioning it will appear. Similarly if you want to put a product or a site related to a certain words and want others attention in search results, you have to use the key words.

How To Track Keywords ?
Twitter by default shows the 10 most trending topics on your homepage itself but if you need more then you can try these sites.
Twitscoop shows keyword tag clouds that change size in real time.In the Hot Trends section it shows graphs of trending tpoics in hours as well.
Another strength of Twitscoop is that you can also see the number of clicks on bit.ly urls in the tweets itself. And if the tweet contains photos posted on Twitpic it is visible right there by hovering the mouse over view button .


Monitter is real-time tracking site with a facility to view 3 different keywords on a single page. By default they show the Twitter Trending Topics but you can charge all the three engines by substituting your own keywords and watch all of them together.



To get hourly updates by email on the selected keywords you can try Tweetbeep.

Another site for email updates is Tweet Scan.

How To Retain Karmas In Plurk On Vacation

Many times I come across plurkers who plurk their complaints about zero karma because they were on vacation.
To retain Plurk Karmas while you are away is simple. Go to my accounts link and scroll down to the bottom.
"Karma vacation mode (freeze karma)
Going on a longer vacation or don't have time to Plurk? Karma freeze is here to help you! Karma freeze will freeze your karma."

You will find a check box and a button labelled turn it on, like the one shown in the pic below. It costs you 1 Karma to enable this. Deal.


Never loose Plurk Karma again!
Meet me on plurk by this link.