How to get your blog content onto Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed using free services.
I had been using the excellent and free Twitterfeed to autopost to Twitter but just switched to WP to Twitter, a WordPress plugin. Here’s why. Twitterfeed reads the Polizeros RSS feed and takes about first 120 characters of new posts, adds a [...]
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Automate putting blog content onto social networking sites
Kids hate Twitter? That was so last week
They like it now. So all you kids-hate-Twitter fossils better get with the program.
Search engine wars heat up
Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance
Facebook buys Friendfeed. Their real target is Google, not Twitter.
Twitter vs. Facebook: Who will win in real-time search?
Comparison of their search engine features.
Because it’s all about search. Real-time search. Google doesn’t have that yet. Facebook now has 300 million users and is the 4th largest [...]
The Twitter and Facebook attacks were aimed at one person
Distributed Denial of Service attacks on websites are an increasing pest on the Web, but the latest bunch this week had a bizarre, and disturbing twist: They were aimed at a single user’s web presence.
Read on.
Should I quit blogging, asks Problogger
Problogger responds to the “Is blogging dead” meme that Steve Rubel and others have been posting about.
I get the sense from a lot of bloggers that they feel that they’re being left behind – that all this new stuff that is emerging is beyond them – that it’s hopeless to keep on blogging. My message [...]
Stocktwits. Using Twitter to create a niche community
Stocktwits uses Twitter to build a niche community around trading stocks. Scoble interviews founder Howard Lindzon. Here’s how it works. Post on Twitter about trading stocks and preface stock symbols with ‘$’ and use ’stocktwits’ as a hashtag. An example tweet might be “I think $MSFT is a long-term buy because of Windows 7 and [...]
How to spread blog content to social networking sites
Feedburner. Make your RSS feed highly useful
Use Google Feedburner for your main feed and comments feed. RSS is how content moves around the web. You don’t have to understand RSS to use it, as setting it up is easy.
Lots of people, including me, read much of their news in a RSS Reader rather than going [...]
Is blogging dead?
Jon Buscall
So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging.
Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual, my own take on this is simple: don’t abandon your blog – just yet.
The primary reasons are [...]
How an indie musician made $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter
Amanda Palmer tweeted about her band The Dresden Dolls, got a flash mob going, and the next thing you know, she’s selling t-shirts, having an auction, and then a twitter-invitation only gig.
total made this month using Twitter = $19,000
total made from my huge-ass ben-folds produced-major-label solo album this year = $0
Twitter psyops
Last night on the twitter stream for #iranelection, there was a sudden burst of tweets about how tanks were entering Tehran. Others asked for confirmations or photos. None appeared. Then some military folks opined that tanks don’t do well in urban areas and in fact are quite vulnerable. Then others tracked the tank tweets back [...]
Iran protests. Huge coverage by Twitter and blogs
Mashable has the numbers and graphs
Twitter: 221,744 “Iran” tweets in one hour
Blogs: 2,250,000 blog posts on Iran in 24 hours
YouTube: 3000 Iran videos uploaded in one day
These trends clearly demonstrate that social media has been front-and-center in the Iran election protests. The Iranian government has reportedly been trying to censor some of this communication, [...]
Twitter reschedules maintenance to help Iran get news out
Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance from Iran daylight hours to Wed 1:30am Iran time specifically because Twitter is so important in getting Iran news to the outside world. Andrew Sullivan played a major role in mobilizing people to ask Twitter to reschedule. And they quickly did. Everyone, take a bow. This is the real time [...]
Topsy. New, powerful Twitter search
Topsy ranks their search results by how often a link is mentioned on Twitter and by who is doing the linking, an approach similar unlike what Google does. The results can be surprisingly useful, another example of the real-time web in action.
How Twitter and Facebook now compete with Google
Mark Cuban
For the 1st time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google. The total number of people coming to my blog is increasing. The percentage of people who find it via Google is declining. Significantly.
This trend will only continue and is probably not reversible. I increasingly use [...]
How to hide your Twitter addiction at work
Chris Pirillo recommends Spreadtweet which looks exactly like an Excel spreadsheet and can even be customized to match your version of Office.
