Archive for September, 2009
The Forbidden 403 on Twitter
403 Forbidden
Twitter"s is Forbidden
It refused to submit my request for answering a DM.
Pretty weird huh?
Who would think that by simply replying to a DM, that would cause such a problem.
While doing a search on Google for “403 Forbidden on Twitter” I came up with many possibilities but most of the results (over 29,900) were pertaining to mobile devices,
In a recent response at Answers.com they state the following:
A 403 error message is an indication there may be an error on the remote web server. There is likely nothing you can do directly to solve the issue. The best thing to do in this case is to contact twitter support. They may have an error in their web server configuration that they can fix if notified about the issue.
And there are many reports on Twitter Support, but apparently the problem still exists.
Has this happened to you lately?
I’d love to hear your comments.
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Twitterology: Define Your Target Market
Twitterology: Define Your Target Market
It is easy on Twitter to get caught up in the ego of the numbers. An old school sales perspective says to “build your list” so a percentage become customers. I have a different approach. Fourteen months on Twitter as an active user (I average 35 tweets a day), my “following” is well under 10,000, but I have been known to tweet: “It’s not HOW many you follow but WHO you follow”
As a small business owner you have to consider that you put in your funnel (sounds like a sales training class, I know, well in many ways it is!). Is your approach to gather as many people as possible and hope a small percentage filters out to become a paying customer? Or is your approach to get very clear about your brand, who you want to connect with and what you tweet about so you attract potential customers? For me the latter of the two has brought great success. In order to do this:
1-clearly brand your page
2-be selective about who you follow. This means you must know WHO your target market is!
3-tweet about things that align with your brand so you do not confuse them about what you do
4-be willing to engage with potential customers, let them learn to trust you
These steps will start you to a strong powerful following on Twitter!
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What The Hashtag
What The Hashtag: How To Use The Site As a Tool
What The Hashtag (wthashtag.com) is a wiki-based site that tracks Twitter hashtags (also known as trending topics.) Each trending topic is documented automatically or users can insert new hashtags and the wiki will document each.
The hashtag each have their own page that include a description, stats of when they trended the heaviest, and a twitter stream including all users that have used the hashtag.
So, what can you do with this site? The answer – plenty!
What The Hashtag can literally be used as a data tool for you to target more of your niche followers. You can find big dogs in your niche, as well as unique people who have great ideas to help expand success in your own niche. This is a tool that gets down in the midst of the conversation and lets you use it as a way to succeed. Simply do a search for certain tags and you might find things that you have been looking for, but have not had much success trying to gather the right day to market what you are trying to share or sell.
As mentioned, users can enter their own hashtags and if you use them regularly, and within reason (there are always people who overuse hashtags and exploit them), you can attract people into your niche that you need. You can even start your own trend and document it with What The Hashtag as well.
Although my introductory of What The Hashtag in my site, Blondish.net in the article Hashtags: Hashed and Re-hashed, the site has come a long way in the past two months alone and improved. I recommend it as another way to obtain more data for marketing in your niche.
Have you heard about What the Hashtag? Do you use it? What do you think about it?
Tweet Adder: A perfect Twitter Tool?
Tweet Adder: A perfect Twitter Tool?
For nearly one year we have test driven several Twitter Tools to see which one(s) would help us save time and be more productive on Twitter. So far, Tweet Adder is ahead of the curve. Tweet adder allows us to automate certain tasks so that we can focus on our core values of engaging, building relationships and providing value.
By the request of some followers, Skeeter Hansen created this video to explain the tweet adder highlights so you can decide if tweet adder may be the perfect twitter tool for you.
HIGHLIGHTS: Following, unfollowing, locate people, find followers, send scheduled tweets, distribute direct messages, send auto replies, run multiple accounts and more…
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CAUTION: Tweet Adder is a powerful tool that must be handled with care and used in moderation. If you watched the entire video you will see this post and video about tweet adder is NOT about pushing a button to mass follow people or become robotic.
Project SNEAK PEEK: ReTweet Alert!
Project SNEAK PEEK: ReTweet Alert!
Have you heard about the most recent buzz on “Twitter’s Upcoming ReTweet Feature?.”
Twitter API Announcement Group, stated in great detail it’s new outline of “Project ReTweet, what it will look like, and how it will work, but there appears to be a little mix up around the coding to build the feature.
And it also appears that it has many developers in an up roar about the Twitter’s API changing. Now a lot of the twitter third party services have to play catch up, and change how their programs work.
What does this all mean to you?
To make this nice and simple I’ve put a picture below to show you what your timeline (when logged into twitter.com) will look like when the retweet feature is complete.
To me this looks like a step in the right direction, and it will make things a lot easier for all of us.
Please let us know your thoughts.
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Tweet Ideas
10 ways to make use of Twitter besides tweet
Besides sending a “tweet”, how would you like to take advantage of other ways to make use of Twitter? In many cases, you may say sure, but how?
Well, with the availability of (these tech like terms) an “open API” and the power of “third party service integration”, you can find a job, exchange business cards, play games, raise money, social bookmark, start a petition, or share files, music, images, videos and more. The sky’s the limit on the options we have with Twitter.
1. Find a Job
TweetJobs Twitter offers an unprecedented chance to find out about new opportunities and connect with potential employers in real-time with tweet jobs.
2. Exchange Business Cards
TwtBizCard a simple service that lets you set up an electronic business card that can be easily tweeted to your new contacts by sending them an @reply with the hashtag #twtBizCard.
After signing in, twtbizcard will pull in the data from your Twitter profile as the basic information, and all you have to do is type in your additional information as needed for the biz card.
3. Play Games
Spymaster. Love them or leave them, games are here to stay. Interactive Twitter-based game Spymaster can be addictive if you play it. So if you’re in the mood to escape the busy life for a while, then check out Spymaster.
4. Raise Money
Twitpay It’s still an emerging trend, but Twitpay is out in front of the pack when it comes to payment platform on Twitter. It’s a hot space that Facebook is looking to get in on as well.
Right now, there are some limitations to using Twitpay, but for the adventurous, there may be money to be made from selling your own goods.
5. Social Bookmarking
Are you looking for an easy way to archive the links you share on Twitter?
Fleck Lite, is a simple bookmarking tool that will both generate a shortened URL based on the page you’re sharing and archive the collection of links you’ve shared for later reference. If you share a lot of links on Twitter and want a convenient way to remember them for later, definitely give fleck lite a test drive.
