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...“Follow Fridays” — signified by the hashtag “#FF” — is a new-ish Twitter tradition.
Every Friday, we are encouraged to send out a list of some of our favorite people on Twitter, asking others to follow them, too.
A typical Follow Friday tweet goes something like this:
“Good people to follow!! @address1 @address2 @address3 #FF”
A friend of mine on Twitter hates Follow Fridays so much that she spend much of Friday tweeting:
“Don’t bother adding me to your #FF tweets! Follow Friday is STUPID!!”
I don’ think Follow Friday is stupid, per se, but I’ve never added a new person to my followers just because I’ve noticed their names among mine in somebody’s #FF tweet. It would take me all day to check these people out.
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.
Because I use the MarketMeSuite application for Twitter/Facebook, I got first dibs on their latest addition to their features:
With my new BlogMe account, I created a new WordPress blog, using one of the many really nice premium WordPress themes, and get free hosting for one year.
So I’m using one of the “my.name” related domains I’ve been sitting on for years now, to experiment with a new online portfolio/resume site. I’ll let you know when it’s (more or less) done so you can take a look.
Anyway, today BlogMe is open to everyone. If you’re looking for a really affordable WordPress blog set up, check it out.
You can get one WordPress blog with the theme of your choice, with one year’s FREE hosting, for just $3.99.
OR you can buy a $39 package. That one time fee gives you 10 blogs and free hosting. (There are other packages available too.)
Read More...As I told you a short time back, my favorite Twitter client software, MarketMeSuite, is offering fans like me a special bonus:
Starting next week, we get a FREE WordPress blog with premium themes, free hosting and more, just for being MarketMeSuite members.
That’s because they’ve started a new venture called BlogMe that will soon be open to everyone.
However, if you sign up for MarketMeSuite (it helps manage your Facebook, Twitter, Ping.fm, RSS feeds and more, all in one place), you get your BlogMe WordPress blog FREE.
(Of course, if you just want a WordPress blog, hosting, themes and that’s it, then simply visit BlogMe.com directly and find out more about the different levels and options available.)
Either way, you get to start blogging for the first time — or add a new blog to your “collection” of existing sites.
Read More...TwitterFeed is one of the most popular online tools for Twitter. This free service lets you add RSS feeds to your Twitter updates.
Let’s say your Twitter feed is one way you promote your blog devoted to — for example — celebrity gossip.
Instead of having to add your new blog posts to Twitter one by one, you use TwitterFeed to automatically post those blog updates to Twitter, using your blog’s RSS feed, and (this is even cooler), then add other websites’ RSS feeds to your Twitter stream, too.
In minutes, you add the RSS feeds for celebrity gossip sites like TheSuperficial and PerezHilton to your Twitter updates and suddenly, your Twitter account is a “one stop shop” for all the latest breaking celebrity gossip!
How cool is that?
Using TwitterFeed this way, many smart folks have increased their popularity on Twitter and leveraged that popularity to generate site hits, ad revenue and product sales.
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I’ve told you before about why I switched from TweetDeck to MarketMeTweet.
Not only is MarketMeTweet more stable, but it has features other Twitter apps and clients don’t have, like the unique ability to “brand” your Twitter updates.
Today, they announced that they are changing the name of the product to MarketMeSuite, to better reflect that fact.
After all, you can use it to manage not just all your Twitter accounts, but your Facebook page, too. Plus it integrates Ping.fm, RSS, Google Calendar and a lot more.
Soon you’ll be able to get your own custom vanity URL shortener, a WordPress blog with FREE hosting for a year, and lots more.
Read all about the name change — and other features coming soon — HERE.
Read More...It was free to everyone for a long time. Now the popular “social media dashboard” HootSuite is offering users different levels of service and features — for a price.
These new HootSuite plans range from $5 to $100 a month, and will provide Twitter “power users” with “an ad-free UI, enhanced stats, and multiple RSS feeds, social networks and team members.”
“The company’s Enterprise Package (Star Trek reference intended) weighs in at around $1,500 per month or $2,000 per month if you want to use a vanity URL shortener.
“This service is as deluxe as its pricetag…”
Other new and/or improved HootSuite features will include scheduled updates, plus Facebook, RSS and Ping.fm integration.
All I can say is:
Now that HootSuite is charging users money — sometimes lots of it — I’m so glad I picked MarketMeTweet as my premium Twitter client for power users.
Read More...The retweet (or “RT”) is one of the most effective Twitter tools at your disposal. That’s especially true now that Twitter has made it easy to use this function by clicking the word “Retweet” in the lower right hand corner of every tweet.
Here are three tips for maximizing the power of your retweets:
And now — the details:
First, let’s look at RTing your own posts:
How often should you retweet one of your own posts? Will you be penalized for doing it too often, or annoy your followers?
No and no. As Twitter users know, tweets fly right past them (now faster than ever before!) and even if you use a client like TweetDeck or MarketMeTweet to try to filter and organize all those updates, some good ones are bound to escape your attention.
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