Thinking of Making Your Twitter Account Private?

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First off I should apologise. It’s been a while since my last post. It is a challenge managing a client workload whilst still making regular blog contributions and even conducting SEO work on your own websites. But hey, I’m here now, and once again I’m talking about Twitter. It seems that ever since I got [...]

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More Twitter Trending Topic Filters Please!

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Anyone that is a regular reader of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of Twitter. Twitter is open on my desktop throughout the working day, whether I’m using it for clients, for Piranha or on my own account. The Twitter app on my iPhone is also amongst my most frequented apps meaning [...]

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Find out the X Factor results first… on Twitter

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Ever since I started working in Social Media, I’ve always been interested by instances in which the mainstream media crosses over with these new (is social media still ‘new’?) social media websites. On Saturday and Sunday I was treated to another example of this, when public opinion was evidenced on Twitter in the immediate aftermath [...]

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Is Twitter a Search Engine?

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The obvious answer to the question of whether or not Twitter is a search engine is ‘no’. Twitter is a social networking, social bookmarking or microblogging site depending on whose definition you use, but Twitter can be used as a search engine, and it can be done so effectively depending on what it is that [...]

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Topman Saga Demonstrates the Power of Twitter

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At approximately 3pm (UK time) on Wednesday 14th September internationally renowned clothing brand Topman (the men’s fashion branch of Topshop) were forced to remove two t-shirts from sale in their stores and online shop thanks to a backlash on the social networking site Twitter! The two t-shirts, pictured below, right, contained questionable slogans that evidently [...]

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