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How to find good music online with social media

January 20, 2010
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In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techb­log I star­ted talk­ing about vari­ous Inter­net Radio ‘sta­tions’. Today I real­ized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm
It’s not your aver­age music ser­vice.
Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music dis­cov­ery ser­vice, focused around the concept of Blips. To […]

Tagged as: Blip.fm, Entertainment, MP3, Music, sharing, Social Media, Tweet, twitter

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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

January 15, 2010
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter:

Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twit­ter?
The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter

Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion, Lists, new desktop […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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Getting Twitter Spam? Here’s how I deal with it

November 5, 2009
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This is the second part of a post series I star­ted a few days ago, deal­ing with Twit­ter spam.

How to avoid becom­ing a Twit­ter spam­mer [part one]
How to deal with Twit­ter spam [this article]

What got me think­ing about it was the recent spate of incom­ing DM tweets from trus­ted people I fol­low. I received another one […]

Tagged as: DM, OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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Want to get more ReTweets (RT)?

November 3, 2009
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I just had a quick con­ver­sa­tion with a friend about ReTweets. Not enough for a full blog post, but an idea I didn’t want to not write about.
The concept is to leave enough room so that any­one who wants to retweet you doesn’t have to work to do it.
Here’s a simple for­mula I use:
140 — (RT @<your twitter […]

Tagged as: Marketing, promotion, retweet, Social Media, Tweet, twitter

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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way

November 2, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiv­ing spam on Twit­ter from trus­ted people I fol­low.
It’s not that they’ve all been over­come by the need to mon­et­ize their Twit­ter accounts (there, I said mon­et­ize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen vic­tim to diabolically-crafted account phish­ing schemes and their Twit­ter accounts are now […]

Tagged as: OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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The top three URL shorteners for ReTweets

September 25, 2009
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If you use Twit­ter at all you know that tweets really are the essence of tight-writing, since you’ve only got 140 char­ac­ters to work with. If you’re plan­ning to include a link to other web con­tent or leave space so that oth­ers can retweet your tweet, your char­ac­ter count drops fur­ther.
Savin’ the tweet, one character […]

Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging, Facebook, QuickLink, ShortURL, Social Media, TinuURL, twitter, URL, URL Shortener

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