Twitter – Day 5 – A Little Twitter Fun
Dec 18, 2009 Social Media & Network Challenge, Twitter
Now, what you have all been waiting for… A little Twitter fun.
Follow the llama
#f2f or #funtofollow
- @fakestevenwright – one of my favorite comedians.
- @dowhatItellyou – just do that the llama tells you. Good.
- @awkwardfamily – Awkward family photos – the name says it all.
- There are a TON more. Unfortunately, many can be pretty course or raw (read: inappropriate). My philosophy: there are so many great accounts out there, why follow these others?
#onlineapps
There are THOUSANDS of applications which pull information from and use the services of Twitter. For a HUGE list, see oneforty.
- Nearby Tweets – Find tweeple nearby.
- Trends Map – What are they Tweeting about in your area?
- Twittercal – Connect Twitter to your Google Calendar.
- Twitpay – Pay someone through Twitter.
- Mr. Tweet - Recommends people for you to follow according to your tweets and the people you currently follow.
#failwhale
The famed “Fail Whale” is what you might see when Twitter is down. (This used to happen frequently. Thankfully, we don’t see him very often now.)
#twittermovies
#shamelessplug
There is another Twitter app – one that I cannot mention yet – which I am working on. It is one of those brilliant ideas that has been KILLING me for a year now that it has not been created and I AM SO CLOSE!
But, we have run into a little snag. We built it and then realized that we need to switch technologies to Ruby/Rails/Javascript. So if you or another person you know with these mad web dev skills are interested, let me know. I want to get this up and running – yesterday.
January 17th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Your Twitter post has some valid points and I am glad I found it! I believe that social media is going to be the future home for any and all advertising and marketing. With Google’s real-time search and other search engines catching on quickly you will see many SEO Companies becoming Twitter SEO Companies very soon! I wrote a post that you may be interested to read about Twitter SEO
I am an avid Twitter user and focus on building the value that I add to the rest of my social network, I help to promote any and everyone that asks me for help (as long as they are not loco in la cabessa!). I believe that optimizing your profiles is very important, just as optimizing your website is, but the most important part of any SEO efforts is having quality content. The same goes for Twitter, you need quality content and updates for people to read and link to. If you tweet about the right subjects you will notice more and more incoming links to your twitter profile when your tweets start being republished on other people’s blogs (provides some temporary page rank). Also you can do your own personal “Social Media Press Release” and some good old fashioned article directory link building with your Twitter profile.
Social media is the first step to an “open-source” media and news. My twitter username is @gohewitt for anyone looking to follow. I am excited to see what comes of all of this and feel that we still don’t have a clue what being “Connected” really means just yet!