Six Degrees Web Design » Twitter http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog Bringing you closer to your audience on the web Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:03:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitter’s False Trends: Promoted Hashtags http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/10/14/twitters-false-trends-promoted-hashtags/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/10/14/twitters-false-trends-promoted-hashtags/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:07:42 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=859 I must admit, I don’t check the list of Trends on Twitter very often, but a couple of days ago I did and I noticed something. Twitter now has promoted hashtags on the Trends list. This, to me, goes against the very idea of a trend. Trending means something is popular and in this

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The Twitter Gender Gap

According to Twitter, women are not being heard.In 2009, Bill

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/06/14/do-you-hashtag/feed/ 0 Facebook In The News: It’s more than just privacy issues http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/20/facebook-in-the-news-its-more-than-just-privacy-issues/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/20/facebook-in-the-news-its-more-than-just-privacy-issues/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 14:50:13 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=745 I seem to have a bad case of writer’s block lately. When I do think of a blog topic, and I don’t sit down and write right then, the idea is gone later. Facebook, as usual, seems to have been in the news a lot lately. Lately though, it has been for more than

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/20/facebook-in-the-news-its-more-than-just-privacy-issues/feed/ 0 The Ubiquitous Twitter: What to do with it? http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/10/the-ubiquitous-twitter-what-to-do-with-it/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/10/the-ubiquitous-twitter-what-to-do-with-it/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 15:33:34 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=735 Read more: The Ubiquitous Twitter: What to do with it?

]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/10/the-ubiquitous-twitter-what-to-do-with-it/feed/ 0 Twitter Analysis Tools You Might Like http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/29/twitter-tools-you-might-like/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/29/twitter-tools-you-might-like/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:05:35 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=730 My posts are flip-flopped this week with Facebook’s new Facebook Deals launching earlier this week so it is Twitter today.

Some of these are tools I’ve used and others are tools I’ve seen mentioned in my Twitter stream lately which piqued my interest.

TwentyFeet – Last week I saw a tweet sent

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/29/twitter-tools-you-might-like/feed/ 0 Your Social Media Preferences: All-in-one or to each their own? http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/19/your-social-media-preferences-all-in-one-or-to-each-their-own/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/19/your-social-media-preferences-all-in-one-or-to-each-their-own/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:53:52 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=721 With Twitter in talks about buying the highly popular TweetDeck (read the WSJ story here), a third party client used to post messages on Twitter as well as following other services including: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, and Foursquare, I was wondering…what would happen in Twitter’s hands? Would TweetDeck become Twitter only? Do you

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/19/your-social-media-preferences-all-in-one-or-to-each-their-own/feed/ 0 Twitter as Facebook? http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/05/twitter-as-facebook/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/05/twitter-as-facebook/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:33:37 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=705 Did you see Mashable’s report this morning? Twitter is considering giving brands pages like those on Facebook.

Twitter Considering Facebook-Style Pages for Brands [REPORT] Twitter might introduce pages for brands similar to those on Facebook, according to reports.

The initiative, which Marketing Magazine reports is being lead by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and President

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Show clips: http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/30/clips-from-last-night-cory-booker-alyssa-milano-jack-and-biz/

Audio Podcasts: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/piers-morgan-tonight-audio/id415373839

Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) is talking about Twitter on his

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/03/30/twitter-on-cnn-piersmorgan-interviews-biz-jack-others/feed/ 0 Origins of Twitter via @Jack http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/03/15/origins-of-twitter-via-jack/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/03/15/origins-of-twitter-via-jack/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:26:58 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=662 Are you curious about how Twitter got started? One of the founders, Jack Dorsey (@jack) (who is also a founder of @square) has been sending out a few tweets a day about it the last 2 days and will do so for two weeks using the hashtag #twttr. I’ve been following along and it’s

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