Of all the Twitter clients I’ve used, like TweetDeck, the one I prefer is MarketMeSuite.
One problem with MarketMeSuite is that it doesn’t have an iPad or iPhone application.
But that’s about to change.
They just revealed the screenshots for the upcoming iPad/iPhone version of their Twitter/Facebook account management software.
This new iPhone app is scheduled to be released before the end of the year.
CLICK HERE and sign up as a beta tester in the comments.
Read More...I’ve written before about how I reached the 5000 Twitter follower mark. Today my main Twitter account hit 7000 followers! Thanks to everyone for following me.
This is a pretty good landmark, considering that:
a) my main Twitter feed links to my highly political, sometimes controversial blog, which means from the very start, approximately 50% of the general public won’t be interested in what I have to say, and,
b) it took me a really long time to “get” Twitter.
(Actually, point “a)” isn’t all that strange. One of the paradoxes of the internet is that grabbing and holding onto a niche subject is an outstanding way to build a large following. Your mother always said, “You can’t please everyone” — and she was right.
Read More...You may have seen tweets and blog posts about something called OAuth, with an August 31 deadline (that’s today!). What are people talking about?
The best source of information about OAuth is Twitter itself. At their official blog, they write:
Read More...“If you are like most Twitter users, you have used use a third-party Twitter application to read or send Tweets.
“As of August 31, Twitter applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password.
“The move to OAuth will mean increased security and a better experience. Applications won’t store your username and password, and if you change your password, applications will continue to work.
“With OAuth, you still individually approve each application before using it, and you can revoke access at any time.
A while back, a big study claimed to show that when it came to Twitter followers, “quality” mattered more than “quantity.”
We hear that about a lot of things in life — it’s the “warm, fuzzy” thing to say.
But as I said at the time: it isn’t true, especially about Twitter.
Cite all the “studies” you like, but look at your own behavior:
Don’t you look at the number of Twitter followers someone has and get impressed? Doesn’t that high figure inspire your confidence in that person’s abilities?
And doesn’t a low number make you think to yourself: “Loser”?
Be honest.
MarketingProfs just hosted their first #TechChat, with computing, marketing and social media expert Guy Kawasaki.
Here’s part of what he told webinar participants:
Read More...“It’s all about the numbers.
This morning I got a notice that an upgrade to TweetAdder was now available.
(You can read more here about why Tweet Adder needed to upgrade, due to changes to Twitter itself.)
I’ve written before about how I use TweetAdder to manage follows and unfollows on Twitter, I don’t use it to its full capacity, but that might change as I find my way around the new version, TweetAdder 3.
Installing the upgrade to the software wasn’t that easy. I ended up downloading and installing two different (new) versions of TweetAdder for some reason.
When I finally launched the (real) version, I was pleased to see that TweetAdder has given its user interface a makeover. While it still isn’t going to win any beauty contests, TweetAdder’s UI is less clunky and old fashioned than it used to be.
Read More...I’m old enough to remember (sigh…) when the phrase “customer service” became the punchline of a joke.
Now, for the better part of the 20th century, the credo really was “The customer is always right,” and it was taken for granted that employees would go out of their way to be courteous, prompt and efficient when trying to solve even the wackiest customer problem.
The phrase “disgruntled employee” didn’t exist until the 1970s, I don’t think. That may be why JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater got so much attention — he reminds us fogies of those “Take this job and shove it!” guys who’d make the news during the Carter administration, when the economy was so bad, they had to come up with a new term to describe it (“stagflation.”)
For much of my life, public sector employees were the worst, but private companies were terrible, too.
Read More...A widely touted study from prestigious HP Labs claims to prove that in terms of Twitter followers, it’s quality that counts, not quantity.
That is, having thousands of Twitter followers doesn’t matter as much as how you engage with the followers you do have.
According to this news report on the HP study:
“It finds that ‘the correlation between popularity and influence is weaker than it might be expected. This is a reflection of the fact that for information to propagate in a network, individuals need to forward it to the other members, thus having to actively engage rather than passively read it and cease to act on it.’”
However, in the very next paragraph, we read:
Read More...“Despite this claim, the report offers a top 10 list of Twitter users with the most influence, not one having fewer than 40,000 followers, and some, such as @rww, @google and @breakingnews, with more than a million followers.”
This week, Twitter unleashed something called its “streaming API” to a limited number of users.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that pretty soon, Twitter will be getting A LOT faster.
If you’re like me and use a desktop Twitter client/app like TweetDeck or MarketMeTweet, right now those applications are only allowed to update at limited intervals. You may have noticed that you don’t get to see “mentions” or “DMs” as quickly as you’d like, because it takes time to reload and all these apps are competing with each other.
Twitter’s new streaming API is designed to make everything in your MarketMeTweet or TweetDeck panes update immediately.
“No more refreshing,” explains Steve Spillman at RE:TWEET. “Everything just updates constantly, in real time.”
Right now, only select users of TweetDeck and Echofon (like Spillman!) are enjoying (and/or coping with) this faster Twitter experience, but eventually it will be rolled out to the rest of us.
Read More...It was news that wasn’t really “news”: a survey showing that zero percent of people (that’s right: ZERO percent) wouldn’t pay for Twitter.
I’m not sure I buy that. For years, “people” said “other people” would never pay for TV, either.
(Have you seen your cable or satellite bill lately — or like me, are you too afraid to open it…?)
Anyway: Darren Rowse of ProBlogger took up the subject of “free” today and talked about “5 Tools I Am Willing to Pay for [And Recommend] to Improve My Blogs.”
I’ll be checking them out shortly. His ideas tend to be really good.
I switched from some free Twitter apps to paid ones because for me, they are a business expense.
When (free) TweetDeck was crashing every five minutes during the World Cup, I was happily (and smugly) responding using MarketMeTweet that I wasn’t noticing any down time.
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TwiTip is one of my favorite Twitter blogs, thanks to posts like “Top Tips for Your Twitter Targets.”
Their last tip was especially good:
“Once or twice a year, I go through my “follow” list from beginning to end and “unfollow” those people that are not following me back. Of course, there are some people I’ll follow no matter what. You know, like Steven Colbert. I don’t really expect him to follow me back (but it sure would be cool!). (…)
“Keeping your Twitter follow list clean is important. It helps your Twitter experience to be more of a community rather than a sycophantic one-way dialog with someone who really isn’t that into you…”
However, if you use TweetAdder, you don’t have to put off managing your “unfollows” once or twice a year, like that dreaded spring cleaning around your house. TweetAdder follows and unfollows automatically, using parameters you set up.
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