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2009 Twitter Social Trends

Dec 31

Posted by Teasastips in social media, social networking, twitter, twitter power | 3 Comments

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In 2009 Twitter blew up. It went from a geek hangout for those creating seismic interests and reactions to the favorite news breaking measurement tool of the mainstream media. Now, all the major news outlets, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, have a Twitter page. They want in on the human social trend-o-meter is thinking, is reacting to, and of course what news is broken. Its safe to say that Twitter is human social-odometer that captures the interest and reaction of people around the world.

Some of the people social trends Twitter captured in 2009 (way before the news media picked it up and reported on it were:)
1. Michael Jackson
2. Susan Boyle
3. Adam Lambert
4. Kobe (Bryant)
5. Chris Brown
6. Chuck Norris
7. Joe Wilson
8. Tiger Woods
9. Christian Bale
10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)

All of these people were news worthy and served as breaking news stories all on their own. No longer do we need to watch end of the year “what happened in….” TV shows, we now have Twitter. Honestly, if I want to find out what’s going on in the world right now, I search the trends on Twitter. Usually, the news organizations are at least an hour behind Twitter. I’ve even been watching CNN when the news anchor has stated, “…this just in from Twitter….”

Twitter as a trusted news source?

The top 10 news stories in 2009 according to Twitter were:

1. #iranelection
2. Swine Flu
3. Gaza
4. Iran
5. Tehran
6. #swineflu
7. AIG
8. #uksnow
9. Earth Hour
10. #inaug09

When the Iran Election was going on, I kept my eyes glued to Twitter because of the factual, up to the minute eyewitness reports from Iranian Twitterers. It was better than watching it on television, the information was raw and real. It was reality Twitter. 2010 will be interesting as Twitter becomes even more useful and accepted as a form of communication between nations and groups of people.

Speaking of people, when this year’s BET Awards went super-ghetto, Twitter was the place to be. Anyone who was watching the Awards show (which was supposed to have been an impromptu tribute to Michael Jackson) will tell you how disappointing it was. The BET Awards showed how ignorant of our favorite entertainers really are. Ving Rhames getting onstage obviously drunk and/or high was one of the low points of the show and that’s one of the reasons the BET Awards made the top 10 TV shows list of 2009 on Twitter:

1. American Idol
2. Glee
3. Teen Choice Awards
4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)
5. Dollhouse
6. Grey’s Anatomy
7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)
8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)
9. BET Awards
10. Lost

2009 on Twitter will also be the year remembered for a film gaining so much social media juice that it went on to become a box office hit. “Paranormal Activity” was a low budget movie in limited release. However, by the time hundreds of thousands of Facebookers became fans, and Twitterers tweeted about it, the movie became a text book case on how to promote a product using social media. The top 10 movies of 2009 according to Twitter were:

1. Harry Potter
2. New Moon
3. District 9
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Star Trek
6. True Blood
7. Transformers 2
8. Watchmen
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. G.I. Joe

Since using Twitter as much as I do in 2009, I discovered lots and lots of techies live in Twitterville. All you have to do is post a tweet about Google Wave or the latest Apple iPhone app, and watch your tweet get retweeted throughout the Twitter universe. When the Google Wave special invites went out (I didn’t get one, so could someone hook me up?), Twitter was filled with heated passion. Twitterers wanted to know how to get one, what price could be paid to obtain one, or can we trade something for an invite to Googles’ latest prized possession. Apparently, you had to be ’somebody’ in social media in order to obtain an invite, but Twitter was on fire about this latest tech news. Here is the list of top 10 tech news Twitter discussions in 2009:

1. Google Wave
2. Snow Leopard
3. Tweetdeck
4. Windows 7
5. CES
6. Palm Pre
7. Google Latitude
8. #E3
9. #amazonfail
10. Macworld

The new year can only lead to more speculation on what will be hot on Twitter or not. You can not predict the future, no one has successfully done it yet, but you can bet Twitter will be there to report about the latest and the greatest social trends. By the way, can you hit the Tweet green and white button at the top of this story? I’d like to share it with all of Twitterville. Thank you, and Happy New Year!!!!

“Top Twitter Trends of 2009″ and related posts (twitter.com)
2009 As Seen Through Twitter Hashtags (mashable.com)
The Biggest Twitter Trends Of 2009 – What Was The Top Topic? (thenextweb.com)
Top Facebook & Twitter Trends for 2009 (trak.in)
Twitter Trends in 2009: A Retrospective (readwriteweb.com)
MSNBC Grabs @BreakingNews Twitter Account and its 1.4 Million Followers (mashable.com)

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100 Followers A Day Twitter Secret?

Dec 17

Posted by Teasastips in twitter, twitter followers, twitter power, twitter tools | 6 Comments

100 Followers A Day on Twitter?

Inquiring minds want to know, can you get 100 new followers a day on Twitter? And if you can, what is the secret?

There is no secret really. Its just a matter of being patient and consistent. That’s if you want quality followers on Twitter. Sure there are lots of programs out there that will automatically add followers for you. And that works if you don’t care about the quality of tweets you receive and the ones you send out. My motto is quality over quantity. You can always gain lots of followers on Twitter, that’s easy, you just need to put in the time. But, as in most things, some people don’t want to put in the time, they want to believe that you can spam your way to the top, post a bunch of sales messages and never give back to the Twitter community. Well there is a price to pay when you operate like that.

First of all your Twitter account will be downgraded by Twitter and Google, now that Google is ranking Twitter profiles. Just the fact that Google thinks Twitter profiles are important enough to be included in the page rank algorithm should be an indication to the level of search engine quality Google is giving Twitter. So, if you want to add 100 Twitter followers a day without knowing who they are and what you have in common with them, then do your thing. Automated Twitter Adders may just have the opposite effect on your account and your page rank on Twitter along with your website that is associated with it will remain in the toilet.

It doesn’t take long to add 100 followers a day on your own. Maybe 30 minutes or so a day. Remember 100 is the magic number on Twitter–this is the number of followers you can add before Twitter starts to look at you like a spammer. Its the ’safe’ number if you will. I recommend using the search tool on Twitter and type in your niche. Find people who are in that niche and follow up to 100 per day. Most people will follow you back. Those that don’t may be inactive or just don’t want to follow you. You have to expect that all people will not follow you back, that’s perfectly normal.

Let me share a personal story with you. When I first started using Twitter, I used one of those auto adders that advertised “this site just gave me 200 followers.” Sure I had over 200 followers in a little over an hour, but just as quickly as those followers came, the next two days they left. What happened to them? Twitter suspended those accounts for spam and other violations. Even if you Google the phrase “100 a day Twitter secret” you will find on the first page a Twitter user who claims to get over 200 new followers a day. Yet this Twitter user only has 473 followers. Guess his program isn’t working out too good for him huh?

All I’m saying is that if you take the time and do it the right way, you will have more followers and have long lasting relationships in the process. Hey, my motto is if you do it right the first time, you don’t have to do it over the second time.

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Twitter Profile Page Rank For Real?

Dec 15

Posted by Teasastips in SEO, search engines, social networking, twitter, twitter power, twitter tools | 26 Comments

I just discovered that my profile page on Twitter has a page rank all of its own. Independently of the Twitter home page which is a page rank 9, my profile page has a page rank of 4. Not bad. And because I didn’t want to think I had a quirk or bug in my Firefox addon, I checked some of my other followers as well. You can Check Your Twitter PageRank using http://prchecker.info

And to my surprise, they too had a page rank. One of my followers who had over 70,000 people following him, had a page rank of 7 while another follower who had over 15,000 people was only ranked a 3. That got me to thinking and wondering how does Google decide on Twitter profile page rank? It certainly has nothing to do with the amount of followers one has. No, the number of followers had nothing to do with how Google scored a Twitter profile. Instead I looked a little deeper and found an article written by the Marketing Professor 6 months ago. Here is a direct quote taken from that page:

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What is Google Looking For?

What they are looking at specifically on social profile pages like Twitter is up for debate, but if history has taught us anything it likely falls along the lines of:

Credible inbound links from sources with credible inbound links
Quality thematic content in their Twitter stream (jumping from dog training to affiliate marketing, to dieting in your twitter stream may get different results than sticking to one theme or topic of discussion… key phrases).
Outbound links to credible sources.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they are also looking at social measures (retweets, locations, and @ replies).”

The lesson here is relevancy in your tweets. If you do not display any consistency and relevancy in your tweets, then your page rank on Twitter could suffer. Remember, Twitter is a social networking site, designed to get people to interact and engage in conversations. If you’re not doing that, not only are you missing out on the fun, but your status with Google and Twitter is diminishing.

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Twitter Profile Page Rank For Real?

Tags: google pagerank, Search Engine Marketing Strategy, SEO, social marketing strategy

Secret Tips To Twitter Success

Dec 13

Posted by Teasastips in twitter, twitter followers, twitter power, twitter tools | 1 Comment

Here are some secret tips to successfully get more followers on Twitter:

Do a search on Twitter for the terms make money online, and home based business.

Then follow those people. Most will follow you back. Only follow 100 people per day, or Twitter will think you are spamming folks.

By the end of the week you should have at least 300 new followers (minimum). Oh, and I know this is going to be hard to do but, once you start seeking new followers, here is another tip: DO NOT post any links in your tweets for 2 weeks.

You want to build credibility first. And even though Twitter won’t admit it openly, there is an internal ranking system Twitter uses to rank people who use the service. If you are always posting links and not offering anything of value to conversations, then your value on Twitter is lowered. For the first 2 weeks try posting interesting blurbs from your website or blog. And always, always, participate in discussions on Twitter.

A good way to participate in discussions on Twitter is by locating the trending topics to find out what people are discussing. Click on one of those topics and join in on the conversation.

Now, once you do these things for 2 weeks, then you can start posting links.

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Research Proves Twitter Prevents Blindness

Nov 24

Posted by Teasastips in make money fast, twitter, twitter followers, twitter power, twitter tools | 7 Comments

Frequently, I am asked, what is Twitter? This question comes from people who are very familiar with Facebook, and internet marketing. And it’s a valid question.

Twitter is like a text message, only it’s sent to everyone on the internet. Once I answer that question, all my friends want to know ‘why do I use Twitter,’ what’s the purpose they ask, and why would people want to know what I’m doing?

Well Twitter is more than just letting people know what I’m doing, that’s only the beginning. When I use Twitter, I’m insured that my messages will be delivered 100% of the time to a highly targeted niche audience. Email marketers don’t even have that high of a deliverability rate. Twitter lets me send messages to people who are interested in what I have to say, and we get an opportunity to connect, and communicate about the things we have in common.

Quite simply, Twitter lets you contact people following someone else you know. You don’t have to look very hard, if you are an unknown social medial expert wannabe, follow the top social media experts. Then contact the people following the real social medial expert and request they follow you as well. The good thing is that most likely those people will follow you back. Twitter is a perfect case of the law of reciprocity at work.

Many people join Twitter and want to know how to get lots of followers. One trick that’s been pretty successful for me has been to seek people in my niche. You can do a keyword search on Twitter to find people who are inherently interested in what you are offering. Once you locate those people who share your interests, follow them so they can follow you back. Next begin branding yourself and creating relationships with your new followers by sending them valuable messages.

Here’s a key to sure success on Twitter: wait a couple of weeks before you send messages to your followers that have links in them. Let your followers get to know and trust you first. Remember you are building a brand, and image and credibility must be established before people will want to do business with you. So work on creating relevant tweets. Offer value and benefit with your tweets and people will be more likely to share your tweets (retweet) with their friends.

If you position yourself as a problem solver, then your tweets on Twitter will be welcomed. On the other hand, if you begin your Twitter career with lots of affiliate links then you will certainly give your followers the impression that you are a spammer. Nothing makes people unfollow you quicker than a bunch of overwhelming marketing messages.

Once you’ve searched for new followers using your targeted niche keywords, make sure you only add 100 people per day. When you have a new Twitter account, it’s important not to add anymore than 100 new followers per day or else the Twitter administration might revoke your account.

After 3-5 days, you will want to delete those people who are not following you back. Twitter will only allow your list of followers to grow according to the amount of people you have following you. At any given time you want to have more people following you than you are following. Get rid of all the ‘dead followers’ by manually deleting them.

When you begin tweeting, make sure you are sending messages to your followers 4-5 times per week minimum. Again, don’t try to sell anything in the first couple of weeks or else you will frighten your followers away before they even get a chance to know you.

If you have a blog, use this time to prepare good, solid content that your followers will want to read. After the two weeks are up, then start mixing your tweets with your links. Also once a week begin following your niche expert followers.

Try to participate in Follow Friday activities. Follow Friday on Twitter is a weekly opportunity to recognize and recommend your followers to others. People love to be recognized, and when your followers see you are recommending them, they will in turn recommend you to their followers. This is another opportunity for you to gain new followers.

The only way you are going to be successful on Twitter and gain a lot of followers is if you work this plan continuously and stick to it. You must do these steps over and over again in order for it to work. Persistence and patience is paramount with Twitter, and if you keep doing these things over and over, you will find your list of Twitter followers growing exponentially.

Tags: how to use twitter, twitter, twitter prevents blindness

Word-of-Mouth and Social Media

Oct 31

Posted by Teasastips in extra money from home, facebook, getting blog traffic, social media, social media marketing, twitter, twitter power | 3 Comments

It’s always interesting to watch a creative marketing people think outside the box, utilize non-traditional methods and hit a marketing grand slam. It can be an awesome motivator for others as they see someone else take a chance and achieve phenomenal success. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, its something that sets the affiliate marketing culture on its ear.

Take for example the recent movie Paranormal Activity:

Paranormal Activity The Movie

If you happened to be on Twitter this weekend, you may have noticed that a movie called Paranormal Activity was #1 at the box office and in the trending heavily. Its different from most Hollywood films, and here is why— Number one – it was made by a virtually unknown director for approximately $11,000. That’s peanuts for a film. Most films cost in the millions to make. A large studio bought the movie, planning to re-do the story with some major stars and a huge budget. Those plans were scrapped and the film was released with a few minor alterations. The studio created a small promotion budget, forcing the movie’s marketing team to come up with some some pretty creative ways to get the movie in front of a small, but potentially vocal target audience and then encourage them to recommend the movie to their friends.

That’s where Twitter comes in…

Taking a page from the Blair Witch Project, the film became a viral hit almost even before it was released. People spreading the buzz, word of mouth were primarily those involved in Social Media and they gave the impression, that the film was a “true” story, rather than a Hollywood blockbuster. Audiences reacted exactly as hoped and told their friends about the film. I saw it on Twitter constantly in the days leading up to the release of the film. Folks on Facebook began sending updates to their friends and posting on their walls demanding that the movie be released in their towns. The rest as they say, is history. The film has already earned $62 million just in limited release, it isn’t even on all screens yet!

This is a case study in how social media works, and how it can drive invaluable traffic to your blog. More traffic of course means more hits and more money in your pocket. This is certainly a non-traditional way of marketing, and a total ‘outside-the-box’ situation. Have you considered thinking outside the box for your blog or affiliate program yet?

As affiliate marketers, we don’t make movies, although I have always secretly wanted to be in a horror film! LOL! However, there are some fantastic marketing ideas to be garnered from the promotion of this film. The lesson here is, when done properly, word of mouth through social media marketing can bring the type of traffic you only dream about. And, you don’t have to do anything but whisper the thought in the form of Twitter or a Facebook update. Your friends and followers are actually doing all the work, you’re just the facilitator!

Think about ways that you can leverage social media or other innovative methods to drive traffic to your websites and offers. Not every outside the box idea will end up being a success, but you just might hit on one that will help you rise above the competition.

Tags: facebook, social media marketing, twitter

8 Ways To Twitter Power

Mar 8

Posted by Teasastips in home business success, tweetdeck, twitter power, web money success | 4 Comments

Find the Best Keywords for Your Business and Drive More Traffic to Your Website!

Twitter is quickly becoming the micro-blogging tool of choice by social network users. You can tweet from your laptop, desktop or mobile smartphone. Its a convenient, easy fun method of answering the question, “What are you doing?”

I first got caught up with Twitter about 11 months ago. A friend of mine suggested it to me, and I must admit, I wasn’t that impressed with it at first. It seemed to be a mindless question that couldn’t possibly generate additional conversation.

But, that was before I really began to understand the genesis of the question. Its not just about “what are you doing,” but more what interesting is going on in the world around you and how are you interacting with those things. That’s where conversations are borne and grow.

Twitter is communication with individuals who want to engage with your thoughts or you with their thoughts. Having a lot of followers is perceived as having Twitter Power.

Since Twitter Power is something you want and may not have, here are 8 ways to get more Twitter Power:

Engage in conversations with people. Don’t just offer mindless banter, tweet stuff that makes sense and show a slice of your personality.
Read other twitterers tweets (try saying that 10 times real fast!)– learn from the best, and mimic their behavior and not their content. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel, learn from the successful wheels already in place.
Use an awesome desktop application like TweetDeck. Some say that TweetDeck is the most powerful Twitter applications available. Think of it as Twitter pimped out and on steroids. Click here for a great tutorial on using TweetDeck to its full capacity.
Recently I stumbled upon Mr. Tweet. Mr. Tweet is a fine Twitter tool that recommends followers to you, who you should be following relevant to your profile information and who is following you. Mr. Tweet will generally recommend 237 new followers per week that are relevant to your niche. Check it out here.
Another good tool to use if Mr. Tweet intimidates you, is Twhirl. Twhirl also allows you to post pics using Twitpic as well as you can search retweets within to determine what is resonating with your followers. What is on their minds. This is a free Firefox add-on.
If you are into add-ons, then just install the Firefox TwitterBar add-on and post tweets directily from your address search bar. You can tweet and surf just as you would use the StumbleUpon toolbar. A quick and easy way to post tweets.
I also use Twitpic and post photos from my mobile phone. Suppose I’m out somewhere and I see something absolutely fabulous? I can use Twitpic to post to my phone in a matter of seconds.
Integrate your web life with Twitter. If you intend to make Twitter a prominent piece of your internet marketing agenda, then you should place Twitter follow links on your page. It makes sense, and is a great way to passively gain more Twitter followers.

Tags: making money fast, relationship building, twitter

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