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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?

Twitjump is a website that off-the-bat says it is the “Ultimate Twitter Toolbox.” That is hard to tell since they are in beta mode, but I thought I would share a little bit about it and perhaps you might want to sign up to get a spot to try this new site out. Of course, I am sure once it is officially opening, there will be a follow-up article here, but hey, most people like new sites if it might make their Twitter experience more efficient, right?

The site offers a few services like:

• Targeted keyword to follow others
• Multi- account administration
• Custom smart search
• Ability to test keywords
• Mass-unfollowing options
• Auto-DM blocking options
• Spam filters

Twitjump also offers real-time stats so you can check your tweet progress. This is definitely a big boast for a site in beta. I already signed up and hope to receive a beta invitation. I am almost certain the site plans to have some paid services as they say:

Bloggers, consultants, thought leaders, networkers – TwitJump has affordable solutions to help you too! Take all your favorite 3rd party apps, combine them together and you have TwitJump!

No matter, any Twitter application is worth looking into first.

Have you heard of TwitJump? If so, did you sign up to be a beta user? What do you think of it? What services would you usually recommend that can offer the same services as TwitJump?

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Twistory: Add Your Twitter Feed to Your Favorite Calendar Application

You heard it! Twistory is a site where you can add your Twitter feed to your favorite calendar application. For those with a lot of tweets under their belt, this could prove handy as an extra way to search through your own tweet updates. Sometimes there might be something you tweeted that you may want to share again as a handy resource.

You can even subscribe to some of your followers/ friends that tweet some pretty resourceful information, so you can always reference back and not get drowned trying to search through gobs of resolts in the Twitter search or even RSS. Applications that are compatible with Twistory are: Google Calendar or any system that uses iCalendar.

No real login is required, just put your Twitter username and there is a Twistory user page automatically created after you click submit. The Twistory userpage contains two bar graphs on your daily and weekly tweeting activity, and some of your most recent tweets.

Though TechCrunch wrote about it in their article “You Didn’t Realize It, But You Really Want Those Twitter Messages In Your Calendar“, their take was not really a review, but just an introduction to the tool. Subscribing and adding Twistory into your Google Calendar (which is what I did), was really easy to do and I thought great. Remember, with Google Calendar, you can sync it with your Microsoft Outlook, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile.

Does Twistory sound like an application you might find useful?

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Making Twitter #FollowFriday Effective

Follow Friday was developed as a way to let people know that
they are valued and appreciated.
#followfriday: Verb. Action is done each friday come rain or shine.

A good number of people on Twitter do not know how to post
a follow Friday effectively.
Before we get into how to use follow Friday effectively,
let’s talk about how not to follow Friday.

A lot of people tend to just post a whole bunch of people to follow, with no real reason as to why. If you see a huge list of people you know little or nothing about, would you actually want to find out more about the people that are mentioned? It’s unlikely that I would actually take action by following a bunch of random people on Twitter whom I know nothing about.

This is how I make Twitter #FollowFriday effective:
Simply recommend one person at a time to #followfriday. Then write a reason why people should follow this person on Twitter. Here is an example, “#followfriday April Braswell @AprilBraswell she provides the best of the best tips for finding the love of your life.

People who are interested in finding love will most likely follow April. If you are effective (by providing value) with #followfriday, your followers will appreciate your act of kindness and likely return the favor back to you.

You can checkout TopFollowFriday it’s one of a number of twitter 3rd party tools that displays the most endorsed people of the week and how many people have endorsed you.

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