Just year ago I used to wake up and check performances of my websites, sometimes it was an hour long process to check trackbacks, buzz on Technorati, RSS submissions, Google Analytics, and website backend for comments, submissions, and recent activity. Now it just… who Tweeted me?  

 It is sad but people don’t link your site from their blogs, websites, and social profiles. Almost entire web community moved to Twitter and people prefer to Tweet favorite links, good articles, viral stuff etc. Amount of incoming links dropped dramatically especially in blogoshphere, Darren Rowse mentioned that amount of inbound links dropped dramatically. Even annoying individuals who used to comment and link everyone to make friends moved to Twitter and now they Tweet every website and user they can find.
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 Apparently I was one of the first people to discover that viral sensation called Dimitry the Stud is fake. I wrote an article: Dimitri the Stud, Year Long Viral Sensation is a Hoax and yesterday it was tweeted by famous actress Alyssa Milano. She wrote ”Please let it not be real. Please. I beg of you. RT @dJeSenTRiK: its actually not real look: http://bit.ly/2lAQ6N“ for her 170 000 fans.

 In less than an hour we got 30 additional tweets and over 8000 page views with more than 5000 unique visitors by the end of the day. Wow! It is really cool.
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 Matt Dunlap posted interesting script which made to mass delete Twitter friends and people you don’t want to follow. It is fact that most people changed behaviour on Twitter and don’t want to follow everyone who follow them. Experienced users prefer to stay with group of people they know and like.

 Script was made to make it easy to delete all friend you don’t want to follow. It saves a lot of time for those who follow thousands users.

Twitter changed terms of service and allow advertising.

Twitter blog states: “In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before”. Also, more added about spam: “Abusive behavior and spam is also outlined in these terms according to the rules we’ve been operating under for some time.”

 
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 According Techcrunch, Twitter hired Dick Costolo as COO, he will start next week. Dick Costolo is a founder of Feedburner which was sold to Google for $100 mil back in 2007.

 By August, 2009 Twitter reached almost 50 million unique visitors worldwide and now it struggles to become major online news source. Also, Twitter is looking to generate revenue from their free service. It is belived, that Dick Costolo knowledge and experience in social media will help Twitter to move in right direction and be able to build more features to deliver news and information.
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 Would you hire someone to Twitter for you? Sound funny for most of you, but Twittering for hire is on demand since many business owners feel like Twitter is the way to go to expand your brand and reach customers. Most my clients provide interest to Twitter and ask the same common questions. By managing several accounts we build strategies and tips which worked perfectly and turned Twitter in to pr and sales tool.

 In the recent months we used Twitter for several business owners like car dealers, yacht and boat dealers, financial companies, and lawyers. We never created any viral sensations and never reached more than 500 followers but Twitter worked for us to improve sales and bring new customers for our clients.
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USA Today and Boston Globe reported that more than half adults use at least 1 social networking website.

 According USA Today and Forrester Research, the greatest increase of social media usage happened among adults between 35 to 54 years old, where participation has grown more than 60%. Boston Globe wrote that over 50% adults belong to social networking sites but don’t use it quite often.

 It is hard to miss “Follow me on Twitter” messages when you visit blogs, websites, or social networks like YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook, and others. How many times you actually click Twitter banners or links to follow person? I guess not quite often unless you are trying to get as many followers and you can to spam them later.

 Cool Twitter incon can attract visitors send a right message to people who already use Twitter. Some websites and designers offer free Twitter icons and bunners to put on a website.

 Free Twitter Bird Icon Set From Productive Dreams:

 To download this set go on Productive Dreams website

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There are a lot of buzz in web community about web traffic from social media sites like Twitter, Digg, or Facebook. Many suggest that social media will replace traditional search engines. Really? We know that there are a lot of stories about some 17 year old kids who sells music through YouTube videos but it doesn’t mean that YouTube is a perfect market place for 50 year old business owner who can sell napkins, pens, boat trailers, or anything else. There are some exceptions like Blendtec which sold a thousands blenders after producing Will it Blend? viral videos but still, can every business use social media? 

Let’s analyze traffic you are getting from social sites and search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Searching for product or service people often type specific keywords and visit several websites to make a choice. Company which provides product or service for competitive price have a big chance to turn visitor into customer.

Traffic flow from search engines:

When people come on a website using search engine their attention focused on the product, description, price, and company which sells it. Even when person leave without purchase, he or she still remember a lot of information about company and product.
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Marketing campaign for a new Sacha Baron Cohen movie Bruno started long before official release date. Shocking guerilla ad campaigns as well as high volume traditional advertising made people believe that new Sacha Baron character will be even more successful than 2006 “Borat”.
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