Archive for October, 2009
Coming Soon
Coming Soon! Twitter to Launch Lists Feature
Nick Kallen @nk from the project lead on twitter lists reported that twitter is testing a new feature with a small subset of users.
Their idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends etc.
The Lists would be public by default (but can be made private) and the lists you create are linked from your profile. Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts.
The Twitter platform team started working on this feature because of the frequent requests they received from people who were looking for a better way to organize information on Twitter. Of course, that means not just twitter.com—the Platform team will follow up in a few days with information on the Lists API. This will allow developers to add support for Lists into their favorite Twitter apps.
They’re just doing limited testing for now. But once they’ve tested the feature out a bit, they’ll launch it for all accounts!
Would you be interested in having this new list feature or do you not care?
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Networking on Twitter
Great Networking Tips on Twitter
These great networking tips will guide you on how you can get the most out of your networking efforts on Twitter.
The secret to networking on Twitter is to harness the power of your tweets. All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.
With that being said networking on Twitter is all about three core values; engaging, building relationships and providing value in your tweets.
7 Tips for Networking on Twitter
1. Engaging: You will make more friends and attract more followers by becoming interested in other people versus trying to get other people interested in you. The key to engaging with others on Twitter is making the other person feel important. A great way to connect with someone new is to give them a compliment. There’s always something nice to say about someone.
2. Building Relationships: People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. With Twitter, People can get to know, like, and trust you much faster and more efficiently than traditional means of marketing by focusing on one major step when building relationships, the follow-up.
3. The Fortune is in the follow-up. Many successful business owners have discovered when following up with people has made all the difference to their business. If you don’t follow-up with people, your competitors will.
4. Providing Value: Your true worth is determined by how much more you provide in value than you take in payment. When you effectively engage and build relationships by providing value and give people what they want you will gain new and repeat customers with Twitter.
5. Be the referral source: by referring a persons business to other people. There is simply no better way to get someone to want to do something for you, than first doing something for them
6 Connecting: Before you connect with someone go to their blog/website and do some basic research. Visit their about page and send a tweet with a positive comment about them or their business. Doing this will show them you took the time and are being thoughtful.
7. Tweetups:This is an excellent opportunity to meet with multiple people at one time in person. Meeting your friends and followers in a group setting will give you the option to share ideas and take your relationships to the next level.
Using these 7 tips for networking on twitter can generate beneficial results for your business fast and it can also be a lot of fun.
TweepML
TweepML: Share groups of Twitter users
TweepML is a simple format to make it easy for people to share a list of Twitter users (“Tweeps”) all in a click of a mouse.
Imagine the popular #FollowFriday tradition on Twitter — instead of trying to cram a big list of tweeps into 140 characters, you could simply create a TweepML file and point your followers to that.
You can also add TweepML to your blog/website to make it easy for people to follow everyone on it with a single click.
The TweepML has been officially approved by Twitter.
Let us know your opinion: Does the TweepML format address a need as the Twitter user-base continues to grow? Do you see yourself using TweepML.org to find and share lists of Twitter users you might like to follow?
(Please leave us your comments and let us know if you start group of people with TweepML)
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