Three Twitter Apps That Rock!

Do you feel like you are drowning in a social media tsunami? Whether your daily dose is mainly from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or the gazillion other social media outlets that seem to be propagating at a viral level, it feels overwhelming when all that data just keeps coming, and there seems little you can do to stop it – short of throwing your computer out the window.

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Since everyone is talking about Twitter [almost all the time] let’s concentrate on the little blue bird of microblogging. I spend much of my day digging around in social media so I have a few tools that I use that help me make sense of it all and I thought I would share three Twitter Apps [that rock] with you. (more…)

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Boomers Getting Sweet on Tweets

In March of this year there was a 131% traffic growth spurt for the micro-blogging site Twitter with tweets nearly doubling from the previous month and almost reaching the ten million mark. That’s a whole lot of tweeting going on!

But why did Twitter suddenly become even more popular earlier this year – with its popularity continuing to grow?

The elders of our nation are now getting on the Twitter bandwagon, that’s why.

Not only has Twitter been all over the media of late, [cast your mind back to the day Michael Jackson went to moonwalking heaven] but it has been embraced by the media as a channel of communication. (more…)

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Behold the Power of Twitter

Finally the day has come – Oprah is now on Twitter, tweeting long with the rest of us. It took me a good while to get into Twitter. I just couldn’t believe that anyone outside my circle would be the slightest bit interested in what I have to say, but they are, and the power Twitter now has is a testament to all our continually inquiring minds.

Yes, Twitter is a great vehicle for us all, not just celebrities. But it works very well for celebrities and their much needed buzz. Now that Hugh Jackman has offered 100K to a charity who can “sell” their need to him in a mere 140 characters or less, I guess we have really reached the pinnacle of micro-sizing the important, as well as the unimportant. (more…)

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