Twitter Social Media Advice
Twitter becomes "Places" aware with Foursquare and Gowalla
- 15 Jun 10
Twitter is going live this week with it's "Places" feature, this new style of location aware tweeting allows you to tie a named location like a shop, cafe or cinema to your tweets. The old location system was based on Coordinates longitude and latitude that wasn't very user friendly.
Many of you will notice this new feature apes FourSquare and Gowalla's use of Places in their services and that's because Twitter did a deal to access all the location information from the two leading checkin services.
Twibbon and JustGiving - Fundraising Social Style
- 02 Jun 10
I wrote about Twibbon when it first launched, since then they have really fleshed out their service adding Facebook support as well as Twitter and also adding a few personalisation options to your campaign.
JustGiving as you will all be aware of is the UK's leading donation service provider making it easy for the public to donate to their chosen cause. Together they have come up with a rather clever way to allow supporters to show their support and at the same time prompt supporters to make a donation using JustGiving.
The Custom Campaigns feature allow you to customise some aspects of your Twibbon in Edit Customisations look for section 4 it's clearly marked. Here you can enter your JustGiving landing page when a supporter adds your badge they will be redirected to your JustGiving page and you can prompt them for a donation.
Get Ready for Twitter Annotation “Twannotations”
- 09 May 10
Twitter is readying a major new feature for developers to build into their apps and this is one that everyone is going to want to use once it's available. “Twannotations” Twitters term for Annotation, that is extra information added to a core object in this case a Tweet.
We are all very used to working in 140 charachters but we all know that it's a real limitation when you want to add more context to your tweet.
Using “Twannotations”you would be able to save yourself space by adding extra information into the Annotations space. For instance you might decided to add your mood instead of a smiley :-) or add more information about a film you are talking about in your tweet. Iron Man 2 - Starring Robert Downey Junior, released 2010.
The Anatomy of a Tweet
- 19 Apr 10
Here is a good breakdown of what a developer sees for every Tweet you send, a huge amount of additional data can be requested and used by developers for each tweet. This is the same data used by Google for Real Time Search, the data below is written in JSON as Twitter may be dropping XML from v2 of the api.
Make Managing Twitter Easy
- 08 Apr 10
One of my favorite ways to manage Twitter is to use TweetSpinner, it has a huge number of automated tools that can make some of the more boring tasks of Twitter an automated afair.
- Archive your DM's
- DeSpam your DM inbox
- Prune dead accounts
- Purge followers not following you back
- Rotate your Twitter profile background
- Create automated messages with Spinnable text
