Dec
10th
By Mert Erkal in Microblogging | Comments (5)
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Customize Twitter Background
You can make a real good impression with a Custom Twitter Background. In this post I will show you how to customize your Twitter background in 10 minutes. Spend a few minutes, and create your own Twitter background. Don’t miss this great marketing opportunity.
Have You Tried Before?
I bet you already tried to have your own customized Twitter background, but you could not locate the images and the text perfectly well on the screen, and the outcome was not satisfactory. No worries, I also failed a few times, and then come up with a good solution. Have you seen my Twitter profile? I located my blog’s logo on the left side, and my blog’s URL, my photo, and a quote from me on the right side of my Twitter background. Since then I noticed that I have 5 new followers every single day, even though I don’t update my Twitter so often.
I am sure you see the real potential now, let’s start with the measurements. Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 23% [?]
Nov
25th
By Mert Erkal in Microblogging | Comments (7)
Some bloggers use Twitter to promote their blogs, or use it separately in order to gain more followers. However, majority of them don’t effectively use the service for what it was intended, so here are a few tips on how to effectively manage using Twitter.
- Ask your readers to follow your tweets either via your email newsletter, or an invitation text & link on your blog.
- Use WordPress plugins like TwitterTools to update your tweets on your blog.
- Participate in the communities within your niche which will naturally draw followers to you. Define your target niche, and eliminate the rest. Follow less but targeted people.
- Don’t be too noisy. Keep the noise down. Do not follow noisy people, just purge those people.
- Star your favorite tweets. This will help you to save them for future use.
- Watch Tao of Twitter by Ed Dale.
- Prefer easy to use twittering tools like Twshot or TwitterFox
- Your Twitter feed is also available as an RSS feed. Check the bottom of your Twitter homepage, and you will notice your Twitter RSS feed. Get your Twitter RSS feed, and send it to RSS directories.
- Customize your Twitter background image. Look at mine: Mert Erkal. It is not so difficult. Believe me it is worth spending your time. Do not forget to publish your blog’s logo and URL for branding.
- Integrate your Twitter updates with Facebook using TwitterSync. This little application will publish your latest tweet as your Facebook status.
- If you have time, I suggest you to take a look at Caroline Middlebrook’s Twitter Guide.
How do you use Twitter? Please share your best practices with me.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Nov
22nd
By Mert Erkal in Microblogging | Comments (2)
Twitter Counter
Twitter has become very popular recently. You may add a daily updating TwitterCounter to your blog so that your visitors can see how popular you are. You can increase your followers quickly with this little application.
How To Start Using TwitterCounter
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Nov
18th
By Mert Erkal in Microblogging | Comments (7)
Image by DaringFireball.net
Until this year personal blogging used to be the only way to communicate with your friends on the Internet. However, the information overload forced us to find alternative communication ways, and microblogging was born. Bloggers use microblogging sites like Twitter to socialize with each other.
What Is Microblogging?
Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by email, instant messages, mobile phones, or the Web. The most popular microblogging tool is Twitter. The popular social network site Facebook also has a microblogging feature, called “status update”.
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Popularity: 15% [?]
