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Twitter Lists, Linkedin and Retweets on Tweetdeck

Justin Parks — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:43:51 +0000

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Excerpt: I have been waiting for this update to Tweetdeck since the announcement by Twitter of the changes to ReTweets and the development of the Twitter Lists. I wasn’t sure how it would be handled by Tweetdeck as it basically already allowed Groups and it seems like they have done a great job in working out a solution to this possible clash by allowing you to convert your current Tweedeck groups into a twitter list or keeping it private in Tweetdeck itself. The thing is, and in a surprisingly quiet move, Tweetdeck have also went one step further and integrated LinkedIn status…

The Bacon and Eggs Guide to Retweets on Twitter

Justin Parks — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:46 +0000

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Excerpt: I see a lot of information, everyday, about social media, its new features, the tools, the apps, the software, the systems and of course the potential and I definitely enjoy reading it and seeing peoples passion come from getting mucked in and involved. Sometimes though, I see information about social media and I just don’t get it. At all. Typically this information is the type of thing that involves numbers, fancy looking graphs, pie charts and some scientific looking pile of claptrap that aims to prove a point or justify a technique of one from or another and the end result…

Twitter buttons, icons and badges for Social Media

Justin Parks — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:36:36 +0000

Im not gonna explain twitter, no way. If your here looking for buttons then you know what it is! The range of buttons and icons in social media available for twitter is simply astounding. Here are a few twitter icons, badges and follow me buttons. Click any of the images to enlarge it then right click and select “save as” to download he icon to your computer. Check out more Social Media Icons Badges and Buttons. Source: credits for the sites and artists who made these cool icons badges and buttons.

Twitter Influence – Social Media gets Scientific

Justin Parks — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:27:26 +0000

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Excerpt: This is a little deep but none the less its an interesting piece to read and understand something quite serious. Social Media has gone Scientific it seems when people spend the time breaking down and analysing the metrics of social interaction and try to quantify the value of this metric by comparing it in a live environment, namely Twitter of course. The people in question are Alex Leavitt with Evan Burchard, David Fisher, & Sam Gilbert who created a report on the Web Ecology Project website titled: Researching Quantized Social Interaction The Influentials New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter Sounds complicated right? Well to…

Should I unfollow everyone on twitter?

Justin Parks — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:32:22 +0000

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Excerpt: Over the last few months, probably in combination with the huge increase in twitters profile and brand, many of the longest established and respected users on twitter have been rethinking their methods and usage of twitter and how they interact with the followers they have for a variety of reasons. Why Unfollow everyone on Twitter? The reoccurring theme for Chris Brogan and Darren Rowse here is something akin to spam, although to wholly class it as spam is a bit of a sweeping statement. Its more of a user error I believe, or basically a lack of understanding about how an action…

Monitoring tweets about your brand with Google

Justin Parks — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:08:15 +0000

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Excerpt: Another advancement on the ability to search for tweets, this time within a given time frame or date range. Its a little more complicated to do, but still relatively easy and can be invaluable in researching what people have tweeted about your name, company or product over a particular period of time. As usual, open Google and paste this line into the search bar: site:twitter.com/* tweets“Nike” And as expected we get results back with the tweets that have the word Nike in them. Now we want to refine it down to a date range. The page should look like this: Now hit the “Show…

How to Google search a users tweets in twitter

Justin Parks — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:22:55 +0000

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Excerpt: I wrote a post a short time back on how to use Google to search for interesting twitter users using a search string. The full post is called Using Google Search to find interesting Twitter Users and it has full details on how to use the search for bio and location. I just came across a tweet by @miralize asking if there was a way to search for words and phrases in the twitter users stream and decided I would try a nother variable on that search string as a shot in the dark and see if it worked. Seems that I…

Eat spam Twitter bot!

Justin Parks — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:02:42 +0000

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Excerpt: As you may, or may not be aware, twitter updated the email notifications a while back to display more information about new followers you have received on your account. Im hoping that they will expand upon this a little more to make the process of following people back a little simpler and also to help weed out and spot twitter spam accounts and twitter bots, the true bane of using twitter effectively. (I cannot and will not go into a rant on this post detailing how much I hate this and how adverse its effects are, that’s for another day, one which…

Twitter Newbie – A step by step guide to getting started on twitter

Justin Parks — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:42:38 +0000

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Excerpt: Your a twitter newbie, you’ve heard about it so you have decided to do the twitter thing and find out what its all about. Here is my version of the twitter newbie startup guide in 14 parts to help you take the first steps, understand what its all about and get the ball rolling. 1) Get a Twitter account Getting an account is simple. Visit www.twitter.com and click the green “Get Started- Join!” button. On the next page you will be asked for “Full Name” and “User Name”. The difference between them is this. Full Name is the name of the owner of…

Monitoring your brand in twitter with TweetTabs

Justin Parks — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:53:42 +0000

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Excerpt: I came across Tweettabs after being referred to it by @joe_carney (cheers Joe) while we where having a little chat about using Twitter and search on twitter. Gradually our conversation shifted to different ways and means of using twitter effectively when Joe suggested I check out www.tweetabs.com. Being an inquisitive kinda guy (or a right nosey bugger) I checked it out as it seemed interesting. What a beautifully simple idea. Tweettabs allows you to monitor live tweets based on any given keyword you choose as and when it happens with the advantage of letting you focus in on relevant subject matter and…