Twitter Basics

October 27, 2008 by Chadwick · 1 Comment
Filed under: Internet Marketing 

  • What is Twitter?
  • How to Use Twitter
  • Desktop Clients
  • Cell Phone Apps
  • Sending Photos on Twitter
  • Search Twitter

What is Twitter?


Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? You then reply using up to 140 characters. Twitter will automatically shorten any long URLs that you enter.

Sign Up for Twitter

How to Use Twitter

You can begin to post updates & find friends using the Twitter website.  If you use Firefox, you can install an addon that will allow you to use Twitter from within the Firefox browser.

Download Firefox Plugin

Desktop Clients

Mac OS X
Twitterrific
Download Twitterrific

PC
Digsby
Download Digsby

(MAC / LINUX Support coming soon)

Cell Phone Apps

IPHONE

Download Twittelator


Windows Mobile 6.0


Download ceTwit

Sending Photos on Twitter

Twitpic is a service that will allow you to share your photos on Twitter using your cell phone, API, or using their website.

View Image
http://twitpic.com/hvdc

Sign up for TwitPic

Search Twitter


You can use Twitter Search to lookup news, politics or any other topic.

Happy Tweeting!

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Get More StumbleUpon Traffic

October 6, 2008 by Chadwick · 1 Comment
Filed under: Internet Marketing 

StumbleUpon is a Web 2.0 site that allows users find and rate Websites, photos, and videos. Many website owners have found an increase of traffic from using StumbleUpon.

Follow the tips to below to get more traffic from StumbleUpon:

  • Create a detailed Profile
  • Produce Unique Content
  • Participate in the Community
  • Thank those who give you a Thumbs Up, or Review
  • Do Not SPAM the site or it’s members
  • Tag pages correctly
  • Install Toolbar

EBAY purchased StumbleUpon in May of 2007 and have since put it up for sale with Deutsche Bank (Sept. 2008). What does the future hold for Stumbleupon? The number of registered users has been increasing, but the number of visitors has declined from 4.4 million to 1.3 million between July 2007 and July 2008.

What do you think will happen to StumbleUpon in the Future?