Bing And Twitter – Getting Together to Help Improve the Bing Search Engine
Since launching in 2006, Twitter has become one of the most popular forms of social media for Internet users. Seeing the opportunity available, Microsoft recently struck a deal with Twitter to allow users to search tweets via the Bing search engine.
With the partnership between two companies, Bing users can now access both tweets and links to web-sites at the same time. This is supposed to allow users to look at tweets in real time through the Bing search engine and allow users to search for specific content as well. Users can also just search for Twitter tweets as well.
To Retweet or Not To Retweet
From here: http://bit.ly/2ANmYp
Dan Zarella has spent nine months analyzing roughly 5 million tweets and 40 million retweets. The findings show that there is a recipe for tweets that get retweeted.
Check out this video to learn how you can become a retweet master.
Oh. And PLEASE RETWEET THIS!
A Twitter Cautionary Tale
Lisa Buyer, The Buyer Group, on Twitter damage control 101 at SES New York 2009
This is an interesting story about how an employee at Lisa Buyer's company Twittered something negative. This quickly spun up into the blogosphere.
The value here is: You should be following your team's tweets and bloggings very closely.
11 Useful Web Apps from ROCKETBOOM
This is a nice overview of some pretty handy tools. You might find some of them useful.
Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree shows us 11 of her favorite productivity applications.
Tweetdeck:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
CoTweet
http://www.cotweet.com/
Adium
http://adium.im/
Sizzling Keys
http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it/
Dropbox
http://www.getdropbox.com/
Drop.io
http://drop.io/
Download Helper
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Snapz Pro X
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/s...
Aviary
http://aviary.com/
Quicksilver
http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac
Little Snitch
http://little-snitch.en.softonic.com/mac Little Snitch
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