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Twitter – a social networking and microblogging platform which allows its users to share the simple word “what are you doing”. Now is becoming more popular and your blog’s target audience is increasingly found there, it is a good time for you to join and incorporate Twitter into your blog.

This article will show you the 24 Extremely Useful Twitter Related Plugins for WordPress blog, and let you increase the number of your Twitter followers.  Then make more money with your blog. 

1.WP Twitip ID ： adds an extra field to the comment form of your blog so your reader can enter his/her Twitter username. The plugin then displays the Twitter ID in the comment and links it to the Twitter profile of the commenter. See this plugin in action in HowToMakeMyBlog comments section below.

2.Twittar ：lets you show Twitter avatars of your blog commentators by matching the email address in the comment to the user’s Twitter email. If the user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it loads user’s Gravatar image. By installing this plugin you will have a much better looking comments section, with commentators all having an image by their comment. Something similar can be seen in HowToMakeMyBlog comments.

3.Tweetbacks ：imports tweets about your blog posts into your blog comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately. So when somebody writes a tweet with your blog URL or any of your article URL’s in it, it will automatically get posted in your blog comments as well.

4.TweetThis： lets your visitors send tweets about your blog posts. When the reader clicks on the TwitThis button, the plugin takes the URL of your blog article and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then your reader can tweet this shortened URL and a description of your blog article to all their followers on Twitter. How to add Tweet This to your blog articles guild. Read more…

Before some days i get an comment and ask me: What Social Bookmarking Plugins are you using on this site, Now, I will tell him that, I using the Social Bookmarking Plugins called SocioFluid. Others, i have decided to write some about the Social Bookmarking Plugins. You know, add the cool Social Bookmarking menu on your blog, somebody could easily share your post to others almost and let the world know you! It’s great!

Since he ask me what Social Bookmarking Plugins i have used, I want to know what plugin can add a similar social menu.  So today i collection a list of Social Bookmarking Plugins and share with you!

1.SocioFluid

Good looking plugin for wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, ,,, displaying some small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to the mac effect. SocioFluid plugin uses jquery with icondock plugin to render the “mac effect”: 

SocioFluid adds to your wordpress posts the buttons to the major bookmarking sites.

2.ShareThis

ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more. Read more…

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Twollo is the use which was combined by the program developer by the name of Paul Kinlan. You have to register with twollo, though it is free. Twollo creates it easy to follow mixed users during the single time. The poke is rarely targeted since we come in keywords, as well as twollo does the rest. Now, in box we did not know, the reason we wish so most followers, is since the tiny commission of them will follow we back. The down tumble is which chatter usually lets we follow 2000 people until your supporters strech around 1800, as well as afterwards we can begin following some-more people. With collection similar to Twitter Karma, as well as Mutuality we can bulk unfollow people inside of the make the difference of minutes.

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The major pitfall that I have seen arise from being involved in social networking sites like Twitter, is that it takes time and time is something most people don’t have a lot of.

It can take a big chunk out of a persons life if they have to manage all the different sites like Facebook, MySpace, Forums, Digg, blogs and more.

ROI on Time Spent?

To be successful with social media and new emerging powerhouses like Twitter, you really have to immerse yourself in the community and assimilate yourself as an active community member. You have to know how people in that community interact with each other and what the best practices are.

There are unwritten rules for sites like Twitter and every other social network or online community. You either need to learn these through the gradual process of observation or you need to have it taught to you so you can hit the ground running and be successful as soon as possible.

But what is the opportunity cost of that time? Is there a measurable ROI on time spent? You cannot expect to sit in front of the computer the whole day “connecting” with people and think that the sales dollars will come rolling in.

The idea behind marketing is to sell stuff and if you’re not selling stuff through social media marketing, then it isn’t marketing.

Social marketing can be a very rewarding (and fun!) way to build your business… When you do this successfully, you will see more traffic, get better customer feedback and discover new information faster…. but doing it effectively can be a challenge.

But, if you are short of time and inspiration on how to harness the power of social marketing, then Twitter could be the answer you are looking for…

It was only a matter of time before something like this would happen. Social media in the hands of most people is harmless. A marketing agency in New South Wales, Australia is about to enter the pantheon of social media for an ‘experiment’ it conducted. Of course, most who reach this status are put there for their contribution to moving the medium forward. The agency, Mentally Friendly (Mentally Absent might be more apropos) is being immortalized, however, for all the wrong reasons.

Over at cnet’s Technically Incorrect column we are given an outline of the activity of this group

Mentally Friendly (because mental friends really are the best) decided to set up a Twitter account in the name of the New South Wales police. Which was an interesting thing to do, save for the fact that an increasingly large number of people thought it really was written by the New South Wales police.

Well, it did feature the real police shield.

I am still scratching my head on this one. Of course, taking someone’s social media handle is not illegal. It may be immoral and unethical, but it’s not illegal. Impersonating a police officer, however, is a very serious offense. So what happens when someone (or in this case some company) impersonates an entire police force?

The New South Wales police decided to investigate this Twitter page. According to the Australian ABC News, the police contacted Twitter to ask about its impersonation policy. Which prompted Mentally Friendly to reveal itself in a blog post on the company’s site.

The company explained it “wondered what the social reaction would be if a law enforcement agency or figure of authority joined the conversation.” And it discovered that “users responded positively to the concept of an authorities (sic) presence in social media.”

One has to figure that a lot of people think about a lot of things that are interesting in their private thought world but these thoughts are not anything that should ever be acted on. I wonder what would happen if I let my 12 year daughter take our car out for a spin (which is bizarre I know so just be happy you don’t have to live with me). While it would be pretty darn interesting, I gotta believe that I would never act on it.

OK, so no one was hurt here, right? That may just have been luck. What were these people thinking? Why weren’t they thinking?

As marketers we assume responsibility. As much fun as it might be to put together some social experiments using the tools that are easily accessed by all, it doesn’t mean that you check your brains and common sense at the door. Words are powerful. We are seeing the evidence of this simple fact more and more every day as we open more and more avenues of communication. What can look innocent could turn into a nightmare very quickly. Marketers have to think things through regardless, even if they get a strong case of the “what would happen if’s”.

So what happened to these geniuses? Nothing really.

Still, it appears that the New South Wales police, once they discovered what was going on, decided simply to confiscate the site and use it themselves.

On May 20th, the site tweeted: “All tweets prior to today were not official NSW Police messages. Go to www.police.gov.nsw.au for our latest media releases in full.”

Perhaps, therefore, it is unsurprising that Mentally Friendly added in its blog post: “Big thanks to the NSW Police Force for having an outstanding sense of humor.”

It’s tempting to shrug this one off as a case of severe stupidity but it serves rather as more evidence that while social media has unimaginable upside it can also create unimaginable trouble when put in the wrong hands or just used irresponsibly. Am I the only one that sees it this way?

See the original post: Stupid Social Media Tricks Down Under

This information comes from eMarketer by way of ReadWriteWeb and it conjures up some thoughts about why the following is found to be true. iPhone users recall advertising seen on their smartphones better than those of other smartphone providers like RIM’s BlackBerry. This probably is not a shock to many but for marketers it poses the question of how now address a market based on device in addition to other demographic and psychographic markers.

The data below shows the whole picture

While the data obviously shows a significant difference in whether various ads are recalled the big question is why? Are iPhone users smarter ‘smartphoners’? Are they just more able to process the data since they tend to skew a bit younger and are more accustomed to the pace of information flow (unlike myself who happily suffers from severe ad blindness)? Are they seeking the information in a different way thus making them more prepared to receive and recall the ads? There are a ton of questions that can be raised from this kind of data and obviously affect how marketers slice and dice the market place to reach this particular kind of ad sponge.

eMarketer does raise a good question though

But are iPhone users a viable demographic target? After all, Nielsen estimated that only 5.9% of US households owned or rented an iPhone in Q3 2008.

While appearing to be smaller what isn’t reflected in that number is the influence factor. iPhone users tend to be opinion leaders. I use a BlackBerry Storm and I do suffer from iPhone envy. Now, I have been known to give an opinion from time to time but as far as factors such as popularity and coolness the iPhone has all others beat pretty bad right now.

Frederic Lardinois of ReadWriteWeb wonders

With the impending release of the Palm Pre and the large number of Android phones in the handset makers’ pipeline, it will be interesting to see if these numbers will look similar on phones that are able to offer comparably compelling experiences

So Pilgrims let’s hear it. What makes the iPhone user more ad worthy? Is the reason due to the cool quotient or the ‘I spend too much time staring at screens’ quotient? As always your opinions are welcomed since we figure that more than a few influencers stop by here from time to time.

Want more marketing news & views? Follow Marketing Pilgrim’s Andy Beal on Twitter!

In the last 6 months it has been impossible to avoid the exponential rise in popularity of Twitter. With prominent companies using its service to launch products or announce services and celebrities racing one another to reach one million followers the micro blogging site has asserted itself as a dominant force in the social networking world. In March Neilson.com reported that Twitter had grown by 1382% through the previous month to reach a figure of 6million unique visitors monthly.

With the enormous number of users, and subsequently posts, Twitter has become a fascinating place to follow up to the minute news and developments. Currently on each user’s homepage Twitter provides a “trending topics” bar. This lists the most popular Tweet topics at the moment and these topics will virtually always match up with the major news and current event storie.

At present Twitter has its own search engine which can only be used to search within the site. Recently, in a discussion with Rafe Needleman of cnet, Twitter’s vice president Santosh Jayaram discussed their plans to develop this search engine to include pages from all over the internet. Jayaram outlined a plan to index web pages by following links found within user’s tweets. By allocating strength to these web pages, based on both the quantity of tweets and the perceived reputation of users that are linking to it, Twitter would be able to provide a search results that place a lot more emphasis on real user recommendations. Twitter also plans to follow and index pages that are found linked in Tweets as soon as they are posted. This means that the information provided is completely up to date and allows the search results to focus on recent or currently popular results.

The question that people are asking now is whether or not this advanced Twitter search could begin to trouble Google’s dominance of the search engine market and what effect it will have on the search engine optimisation industry. Ultimately it looks unlikely that Twitter itself will be able to threaten Google. While Twitter is gaining popularity at an enormous rate it is still nowhere near as prevalent as Google. In addition to this Twitter currently boasts a particularly low user retention figure, with only 40% of those that sign up continuing to use the site. However Twitter is definitely putting itself in a position to be acquired by one of the major search engines (most likely Google or Microsoft). From an SEO perspective Twitter will unlikely provide a seismic shift in SEO practises, instead it reflects and slightly advances the recent trends found encouraging the use of social media sites for marketing purposes. Overall the most likely outcome of Twitter search expanding to include the web will be to trigger a similar move from Google, who will continue to dominate the search industry.

By: Alistair Summers

No matter what search engine is being used it is vital to use SEO to effectively optimise a site. Many site owners don’t have the time to devote to this personally but there are a number of seo companies that can provide the necessary services.