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Who Are The Top 10 Followed People on Twitter
It’s always interesting to check in from time to time and see who are the top 100 followed people on Twitter. Last time the 100 most followed people on Twitter included Barack Obama, Robert Scoble, and Kevin Rose. This time I thought it would be fun to focus on who are the top 10 followed people on Twitter. Kevin Rose is still in the top 10, but President Obama is the second most followed person... More...
Finding People On Twitter To Follow
When looking for new people to follow on twitter, consider using search.twitter.com to do some Twitter keyword research and then follow those people who express an interest in the keywords that you are targeting. Try to identify small but active tweeters, because smaller tweeters are more likely to notice what you tweet. People with lots of followers will most likely be too busy to notice you unless... More...
Using Seed Keywords For Search Engine Optimization
How would you like to know exactly what keywords people will use to search for a product of service? Maybe you’d like to launch a new website idea or promote an affiliate product and you don’t want to build a site and wait to see what your server logs tell you about your search traffic. What you need is a solution like the one I came across today. Imagine you already have a mailing list... More...
Stepping In Front Of Your Blog
Is it time to step away from your keyboard and get in front of your blog? This is a question I’ve been thinking about over the past several weeks and I’ve decided, yes it’s definitely time. It’s time to put a face to the words. It’s time to let people see you in action. It’s time to embrace the power of video so that you can create content anywhere you go using... More...
Are Facebook Applications Using Multi-Level Marketing
So, do you have six bucks and three friends? You’ll need at least that much to start using the new ChatToText Facebook application. The Facebook application lets you receive chat messages from Facebook as SMS text messages. You can reply to chat message using text messaging and your replies are posted back to Facebook instantly. The service costs six dollars a month and seeks to fill the gap... More...
Interview With A Love Kung Fu Artist
Can being a Love Kung Fu artist help you increase your customer base and make you more efficient too? Well, I can guarantee anything, but it has certainly worked for Mark Berry of LoveKungFu.com. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark and he told me about several creative ideas he’s used to build up his online life coaching business. Using word of mouth advertising, teleconferencing... More...
How To Become An Overnight Success
I am full up of over night success claims! That’s right, you heard me. FULL UP! And no, there’s no “until I tried this” or “wait till you hear about that” coming next. It’s ALL horse fertilizer designed to get people excited and draw them in for the sale, end of story. Here’s why. Nobody, not a fine art painter, a guitar player, a computer programmer,... More...
Two Tools For Optimizing Your Blog
After researching, writing, gathering links, and cropping images, optimizing a blog is usually the last thing a blogger thinks about. But the truth is, all that hard work could be going to waste if your blog isn’t being seen and the appropriate action isn’t being taken. Slow blog load times can discourage visitors from digging to deeply into your content. If a page doesn’t load fast... More...
Social Networking For The Bottom Billion
Recently Paul Collier, author of “The Bottom Billion”, gave a talk on Ted.com where he outlined a high level plan to improve the lives of what he calls the “Bottom Billion” of people who live in developing countries and are unable to affect change to improve their situation given the current political and economic systems. What Mr. Collier discusses is fascinating not only... More...
Spy On Competitors Using Web Analytic Tools
If you want to know how much website traffic a competitor is getting then you’ll want to take a look at Compete.com. Compete offers site analytic that let you do side by side website traffic comparisons between several sites. Compete also offers search analytics that can tell you what keywords a specific website is getting traffic for or what websites in general are getting traffic for specific... More...
Using Twubble To Find Twitter Friends
So, who are you following on Twitter? I mean really following? Do you have a list only of people you know or is it mixed between real personal contacts and complete strangers? My guess is you’re like most people using Twitter and you have a mixed list. Maybe your following Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak. Maybe your following me. It’s hard not to have one or two curiosity follows. So, the... More...
Who Are The Top 100 People On Twitter
I’m on the road to Austin Texas today to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Conservatory so this Microtween will be really short. Last time you learned that you can get a variety of Twitter stats by individual from TweetStats.com. Today, let’s find out who the top followed people are on Twitter so we can begin to explore trends and look for people we might be interested in following.... More...
Using TwitterStats To Spot Social Networking Trends
Yesterday you and I talked about using TwitterScan to perform keyword research on Twitter conversations. We discovered that we can explore what other people are talking about by searching for keywords and we can get an idea of what people are saying about a particular topic. Now let’s talk about TweetStats, another Twitter research tool that helps us dig even further into the stream of on-going... More...
What Do You Twitter About
UPDATE: Either I was smoking crack when I wrote this or these guys have changed their domain. Since I’m too cheap to afford a nasty habit like that it must be the other so, here is the link to TweetScan that works. I’ll go ahead and update the links in the post from twitterscan.com (which does show a listing in the WayBack Machines archives) to tweetscan.com. Today’s Microtween is... More...
