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How to Unlock Twitter and connect your business

Twitter has been around for a few years now and is one of the fastest growing social networks on the web. One of the biggest attractions about Twitter is the ease of which you can connect your business to possible sales. Connecting with other Twitter users is as easy as clicking a follow button, but to really leverage the power of Twitter you will have to get involved. Marketers have already tapped into Twitter in a big way and understand the value it has in targeted networking. If you want to get a foothold on Twitter then you

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How Social Oomph can explode your Twitter presence

This post was written due to a recent conversation that I had with a fellow Amplify user Jamie Pelaez who was extolling the virtues of Social Oomph’s premium services. My conversation about Social Oomph’s integration with Amplify was probably less than flattering to Social Oomph in as much as I thought out loud that it was a pity that this was only available to premium members. That being said Jamie went on to lambast me about Free Vs Premium services in general and I have to agree with Jamie that people do have to get paid or else why

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WordPress to twitter plugin upgrades are a pain in the ass

No doubt most of you will now be aware that twitter recently changed it’s login/connect for third party developers and applications. Well perhaps some of the developers should get their finger out and upgrade their Twitter plugins for WordPress. I myself was expecting the Twitter plugin I use to upgrade and conform to twitter’s request to use the OAuth authentication method, NOT SO. TwitterSifu did not upgrade and this resulted in total chaos for me. It was extremely annoying and very time consuming to put right. Read on …

TwitterSifu

Since TwitterSifu was dealing with my whole network and

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Schedule Updates for Google Buzz via SocialOomph

SocialOomph have just released the first round of Google Buzz integration. You can now schedule Buzz posts in exactly the same way that you can schedule Twitter tweets and FaceBook updates. In addition, your Buzz posts can have attached links to external sites and pages, as well as attached photos.

The Buzz API is still very new, and needs additional work by Google before we can add additional Buzz features. That’s why we call this release only the first round.

Google Buzz integration is available to both Free and Professional users.

Professional users have additional features, such as

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Twitter Posting Tactics

If there was only one tip that I could give about Twitter then it has to be diversity, in other words keep it fresh and diverse. All too often I come across twitter user’s who self promote to the extreme and don’t share the web. Twitter is for many, a simple online text tool that they can use to connect to their friends and family through their mobile phones or computers, and that’s fine. For the serious Internet Marketers who want to build up a sizable following then posting tactics are vital ways to reach out and engage, in other

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Is Blogging a dying art? And is Micro Blogging taking over?

Recently there has been a lot of talk about the micro blog phenomenon with supporters claiming that it will overtake mainstream blogging. There’s no doubt that the micro blogging platform and more importantly real time search is a hot potato at the moment. With new alliances forming through Twitter from the giants of search it’s an exciting time. Twitter has definitely strengthened its position as the top micro blogging service on the web with its latest addition of lists for users. You can bet there will be a lot more to come.

Would I change over?

Leaving statistics aside

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