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24 Extremely Useful Twitter Related Plugins for WordPress

September 24th, 2009 admin 2 comments

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…

Get Massive Amounts of Traffic From Twitter With Twollo

June 14th, 2009 admin No comments

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Stupid Social Media Tricks Down Under

May 2nd, 2009 admin No comments

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?

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iPhone Users are More In Tune with Mobile Ads

April 22nd, 2009 admin No comments

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

smartphone-recall

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.

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