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12.18.12 | posted by btrandolph

ready or not, part one: twitter user profiles update for all

new linked user profiles push to all users Dec 2012

a lot of twitter users had already switched over. however, as of this week, the new twitter user profiles became the default for everyone. what does it mean for the average user? [read more...]

08.10.11 | posted by btrandolph

customize twitter feed for facebook pages

more and more businesses are creating facebook pages to engage with their customers (and yeah, to sell stuff too). businesses and organizations then face the challenge of populating that page with a regular stream of new content. one option? “cross-pollinate” twitter. if the business and/or its employees have a twitter presence, that content can flow into the facebook page. on the other hand, we’ve all seen less successful versions of this on geeky friends’ profile pages.

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Here are a few ways to get the tweets you want, where you want them, on your facebook page.

twitter’s own facebook application

twitter has an application on facebook that provides a two-way connection between the services. [read more...]

11.20.09 | posted by btrandolph

twitter knows where you were last night.

twitter goes official with an opt-in feature that allows geotagging of messages. no changes on twitter.com yet, but developers are already telling people where you are…awesome! [read more...]

07.21.09 | posted by btrandolph

twitter as a prospecting tool?

broad-based is key if you want to make social media a lead generation system. blog. facebook. youtube. twitter. they all feed each other. [read more...]

04.21.09 | posted by btrandolph

now that facebook is under control, what about twitter?

I posted about getting Facebook under control in response to the torrent of complaints that followed the service’s recent makeover. In my life, however, managing Twitter is is a much bigger issue. A Mashable post last December identified some useful tweak and tricks for managing the Twitter stream. I link to that and add a few; more to follow. [read more...]

04.19.09 | posted by btrandolph

what’s in a name

A recent Hubspot blog post asserts that using numbers or underscores in a Twitter user name can be harmful to one’s follower count. But is there another reason why @JoeSmith rates higher than @JoeSmith666? [read more...]