All Entries Tagged With: "twitter"
Neuro-Blogging: Is It The Next Big Wave?
A brain scientist at the University of Wisconsin is using Twitter to experiment and test an application that will allow people with biomedical difficulties to use the social media application without typing with their hands. They will instead be allowed to think what they want to tweet and communicate with the entire world through their brains alone. On April 1 he succeeded.
The experiment opens up all kinds of other possibilities as well.
With a tool like Twitter Tools a person can use their blog to send a tweet. If you can think your tweet through Twitter then by using Twitter’s API you should also be able to think a blog post using Twitter Tools and similar WordPress plugins. That brings up all kinds of possibilities:
How long will it be before:
- Terminally ill patients can blog from their hospital beds without the use of their hands?
- Drivers on a freeway are able to send a blog post while navigating rush hour traffic?
- Bathers can send a blog post from their tub without using a keyboard?
- Birthing mothers can keep loved ones informed during labor?
- Workers trapped in a land mine can help their rescuers find them?
- A man on the moon can instantly send a love note to his wife back at earth while in the midst of performing maintenance on the space station’s mechanical parts?
This is truly amazing technology. How long will it be before we are all wired to communicate across great distances using nothing but our brains and a computer?
Have You Started Your Twitter Opt-In List Yet?
In the past, savvy Internet marketers would build an e-mail subscriber list and send out periodic e-mails to that list. It was a great marketing tool because all you needed was an autoresponder, a little tool that sent out all your e-mails on a prescheduled calendar. You wrote up all your e-mails at one time, loaded them into your autoresponder and set it on autopilot. That was it.
Today, Twitter can do the same thing except that your prescheduled messages have a 140-character limit. That’s OK. You can use free tools at your disposal to make this happen. Here’s how:
- Sign up for a Twitter account
- Open up an account at Tweetlater
- Promote your Twitter account like crazy
- Sign in to your Tweetlater account and presechedule your tweets. You can schedule minutes, hours, days, or weeks ahead. Write out your tweets and schedule them at time intervals that you feel appropriate for your list.
- Build value into your Twitter list by adding tweets between scheduled messages.
That’s about it. Now you have a Twitter opt-in list that you can use for marketing purposes. Need help setting it up? Call us.
Is TwitWall Another Blog Platform?
TwitWall is a standalone social application for Twitter. If you have a Twitter account you are automatically set up with a TwitWall even though you may never use it. I wonder how many Twitterers do not even know they have a TwitWall. I just discovered mine a couple of weeks ago.
The point behind TwitWall is that you can say more than the 140 character limit that Twitter enforces. Good idea, but why not just write it on your blog? Then you use can use Twitter Tools to post the link to Twitter from your blog?
There is a practical reason for using TwitWall. It does appear to be just another blogging platform, but I don’t write to mine every day. Just when I have something unique to say that I really only care that my Twitter audience reads. TwitWall does have some advantages though. No. 1, when you write to TwitWall, your blog post automatically Twitters instantly. Just like Twitter Tools. But it’s also social and accessible to every other Twitterer with a TwitWall. Therein is your advantage.
If you have a strong Twitter following, you can use TwitWall to go into greater depth about some of your tweets. But don’t do it too often. Another reason to use TwitWall is you can target specific types of Twitterers who can find you through TwitWall and follow you based on your TwitWall postings. It’s just another way to reach the right people for your niche. Just don’t overdo it.
3 Social Services That Are A Must For Your Blog
If you blog for your business then I’d recommend the following three social media services at a very minimum:
- StumbleUpon
With Facebook, you can have your blog posts automatically filtered through your Facebook profile so that your fans can read each post from Facebook. Your fans that are avid Facebook users are more likely to visit your blog through Facebook than any other service, even an RSS feed. Using Facebook in conjunction with Twitter is a very valuable combination. Install Twitter Tools plugin into WordPress so that your blog posts automatically post to Twitter. And you can create your Facebook settings to sync with Twitter so that every time either your Facebook status or Twitter status changes then they are both updated. So that blog post you just made that suddenly updates your Twitter status also updates your Facebook status. Powerful! Instant promotion to all of your fans on both services.
StumbleUpon should be used for its traffic possibilities. There is no automation for SU, but you can submit your content to StumbleUpon and share it with a handful of friends. If it is content worth reading then they will vote on it and share it with their friends. For many bloggers, StumbleUpon is the highest or second highest source of traffic.
