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The Social Search Column I Wish I’d Written

Admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:15 +0000

In May, Ryan DeShazer wrote that “Social is the New Search,” and articulated his thoughts on how the adoption and evolution of social media would have a profound impact on traditional search. In that piece, he questioned how Google could remain relevant in a socially-charged world and hypothesised that social channels (Facebook especially) would emerge as mainstream search’s next logical destination.

MediaPost Publications The Social Search Column I Wish I’d Written 19/08/2011.

Twitter Acquires Analytics Startup

Admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:34:06 +0000

Analytics continue to become an important part of Twitter’s services. The company has acquired the cloud-hosted Web analytics application Trendly from Smallthought Systems.

While the platform gives Twitter a way to dig deeper into traffic data, apparently Promoted Tweet advertisers like Virgin America give a thumbs-up to the acquisition, too.

via MediaPost Publications Twitter Acquires Analytics Startup, Supports Promoted Tweets 11/06/2010.

SEO Best Practices For Twitter

Admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:21:15 +0000

Tad Chef explains five common Twitter SEO best practices, describing how to get better performance from optimizing the content, and what to expect as the outcome.

For example, making tweets spread virally is perhaps the most important discipline of Twitter SEO, he writes. So add popular terms and keywords to your tweet to make people want to retweet. He suggests a list of words.

Read the whole story at SEOptimise.

via MediaPost Publications 21/05/2010.

Twitter helps Dell rake in sales

Admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:38:41 +0000

Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | Technology | Reuters.

Still small fry but if as they say the trend is up then we may be seeing more companies jumping on the Twitter band wagon. Manrks and Spencer already offer Twitter and Facebook users discounted products from across their whole range.