Tag Archives: twitter

Wednesday, 02 September 2009

Using Social Media to Create Mobile App Buzz

By William Tyree
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Nobody knows precisely how many iPhone apps there are. This is because aside from the tens of thousands of apps on the iPhone app store, Apple rejects an untold number of apps each week. The reasons for rejection are numerous, ranging from piracy concerns to functionality that duplicates something offered natively on the iPhone.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Teens Don’t Tweet: What it Means for Social Media Marketing

By William Tyree
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This week Neilson proved with numbers what many have suspected anecdotally: there are very few teens on Twitter. Furthermore, there are very few users who are still in college.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Pay Per Tweet Marketing: Enabling Brand Ambassadors or Creating Spam?

By William Tyree
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Paid status updates are nothing new on Twitter. Marketers have been on the site nearly since the beginning, and there’s no telling how many millions of active user accounts might actually be spammers in disguise.

There’s a new player in the paid posting space, however, and its name is PaidPerTweet.com.
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Friday, 12 June 2009

Three Ways to Get More out of Your Company’s Twitter Presence

By William Tyree
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So your company has established a heartbeat on Twitter. Someone in the organization is tasked with tweeting with some regularity, and the account is accruing followers. Great. Now what? What exactly do you expect to get in return for all your tweeting? Do you have a Twitter strategy?
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Friday, 08 May 2009

The Best Twitter Tools (So Far)

By William Tyree
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Twitter continues to prove its merit as the premier free business PR & marketing tool (at least in its current form). Success stories are sprouting up everywhere. If you haven't yet read about Kogi, the L.A.-based mobile Korean barbecue business that tweeted its way to stardom, you really should. Twitter's success in empowering businesses across so many different industries is incredibly inspiring.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Twitter Angling for Search Rankings

By William Tyree
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Twitter has launched the latest volley in the war for social media supremacy by changing the configuration of HTML page titles in hopes of achieving higher search rankings on individuals and businesses. Previously, page titles read Twitter/"username," while the new pages titles display the person's name, followed by a user name in parenthases followed by "on Twitter" ["William Tyree (WilliamTyree) on Twitter"]. TechCrunch's Robin Wauters reports that his Twitter page, and that of many of his associates, now ranks higher in Google SERPS than their blogs and LinkedIn pages.
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