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The Community Participation Pyramid courtesy of Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
In this week’s Twitter column I want to debunk a myth that gets spread by the likes of CNN Money and Mashable. Roughly it states that Twitter becomes more of an RSS reader than a real social networking venue due to “only” 27% of Twitter users being [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->Study: Twitter Users 3 Times More Active than Average Social Media Users

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This week’s Twitter column is about a very intriguing survey by Neicole Crepeau. She surveyed 336 Internet users asking them several questions about their Twitter usage and perception. The most note-worthy finding is that most of those who have quit Twitter did it out of boredom.
At the same time these people didn’t use Twitter in [...]

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Twitter and nofollow is the topic of this week’s Twitter column: While even Google who has introduced, along with other search engines, the nofollow attribute to combat spam a few years ago does not propagate the use of it anymore, Twitter went nofollow big time just recently. What does this mean?

Twitter distrusts everything you [...]

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A new craze has been sweeping Twitter during the last couple of days, with hundreds of suggestions for #seofilms and #ppcfilms. This has been so popular it even managed to make it as a Twitter trending topic!
I’ve picked out some of the best ones here:

There’s a few more funny ones picked out here too – [...]

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Welcome back to our weekly Twitter column. Last week I hailed Twitter crowdsourcing and suggested some ideas on how to motivate your peers to participate in your blog postings.
It worked very well in my case, the SEO FAQ I asked you to steal. Many readers and Twitter followers have taken part in the whole process. [...]

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Crowd by victoriapeckham.
Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Ever since I’m on Twitter I’ve tried to get as many people to participate spontaneously in writing my posts or rather compiling my lists. I always seek contributions for my “30 something” flagship posts. The appropriate term for these kind of participation is crowdsourcing.

Many people contribute [...]

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Image: Happy Beaver by stevehdc.
Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Yesterday many people on Twitter cried out in outrage about a misled tweet from @vodafoneuk – in it some apparently tweeting under the influence employee made a badly spelled comment about the hygiene of homosexuals.
Then the person also threatened to hunt for beavers!
This [...]

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VodafoneUK NOT to Hunt Beavers!

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To be honest: I hate all the Apple hype. I hated it on Digg and I hate it on Twitter as well. Twitter has been flooded with iPad tweets in such a manner that you can’t find the real news anymore.
The real news this week for us is that Twitter changes its recommended users list. [...]

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iPad, iPad, iPad!!! No, Just Kidding. Twitter Recommends Users Algorithmically. A New TwitterRank?

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This week’s Twitter column comes a day late. I think it doesn’t matter when I post my weekly Twitter post. The important fact is that I do at all and the the quality of the post makes it worth reading. So from now on I won’t be that exact anymore. The weekly Twitter column will [...]

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Twitter Arrests Become Commonplace

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This week the Twitter Friday column expands as a major Twitter SEO topic is on our agenda. Last week Technology Review published an article titled “How Google ranks tweets“.
In the TR article leading Google engineer Amit Singhal explains ranking factors for tweets.
Some of the ranking criteria are quite clear and obvious while others remain fuzzy [...]

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Twitter SEO the Tiger Woods Way: How Google Ranks Tweets

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Ford F 150, the biggest Twiter client yet. Image by selfhatingotaku.
Twitter Friday is alive and kicking! Welcome back in 2010! The column paused for two weeks in a row simply due to the holidays taking place both on a Friday. Many people didn’t tweet during the Holiday season anyways so it wasn’t that bad, was [...]

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Ford Cars & Drive by Tweeting

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Image: Life in the Fast Lane by t3ermin4t0r.
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We all love the fast life of the SEO industry, don’t we? Each day is a challenge and the sheer diversity of tasks makes this profession so refreshing. As we have to deal with a plethora of developments, hundreds of ranking factors and daily breaking news which can [...]

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Why does the “Iranian Cyber Army” use the red star, a communist symbol from the soviet era?
It’s Twitter Friday again! Welcome back to my weekly column. Apparently Twitter or rather its DNS got hacked. DNS is that little thingy that assigns real Internet addresses (like Twitter.com) to those so called IP addresses or rather numbers [...]

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Who Has Hacked Twitter? Probably not Iranians, Hackers or Iranian Hackers

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In this week’s Twitter Friday column I want to dissect the news that Twitter traffic is dropping for a few months in a row. Is it true?

Well, in case you rely on Compete.com data only you will probably say yes. Compete.com is quite reliable but also known to measure US traffic. They rather count the [...]

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Twitter Traffic Down or Not? In the US Yes, Elsewhere Rising

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Claiming a Twitter profile name seems to be the new domain squatting, so I thought it would be interesting to see how many top brands have claimed what would be their first choice Twitter handle.

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So for example, Sky would presumably like to have claimed twitter.com/sky – but missed out on this to another [...]

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Top 50 UK Brands Who Haven’t Claimed Their Twitter Name

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In today’s weekly Twitter Friday column I want to compare the 3 most common retweet buttons for WordPress blogs. A retweet button is a button that not only retweets the particular post it was clicked one but also displays how many people tweeted that link: On click these buttons also lead to a list of [...]

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3 Retweet Buttons for WordPress Blog Posts Compared

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Biz Stone by Joi
In case you don’t read my Twitter Friday column regularly let me say it again: I’m always quite enthusiastic about the way Twitter embraces business users. There is no other social media site that makes me as comfortable while using it.
This week Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced paid premium accounts for [...]

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Twitter Friday: We’re Not for Sale but Our Accounts Are

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A few months ago I wrote for the first time about the new internal retweet feature on Twitter. I didn’t like it. Now it turns out as the feature is being gradually rolled out that seemingly most people don’t like it. So this time I won’t annoy you with another “it sucks” post I will [...]

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Twitter Friday: Do the New Retweets Suck? How to Fix Them?

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In the recent past we have been made believe that the sheer number of tweets mentioning a link is the measure of popularity on Twitter. I don’t speak about popular users here. I mean popular items or tweets.
Twitter is neither Digg nor Google so measuring tweet popularity based on links is just half of the [...]

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Twitter Friday: What’s Really Popular on Twitter?

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Last week I wrote about Twitter lists for the first time, this week it already seems you can’t live without them anymore. There are so many Twitter lists out there by now that even a directory like Listorious can’t help you much finding the right ones.
There are hundreds for SEO alone already. So I decided [...]

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Twitter Friday: 20 Twitter Lists for the SEO Industry

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A lot has happened on and around Twitter since I left for a week. All those news pales in comparison to the introduction of native lists on Twitter.
We’ve used groups on advanced Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic already but this week Twitter lists went live for everybody on the Web interface at Twitter.com
The introduction [...]

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Twitter Friday: Twitter Lists Galore!

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A lot has happened on and around Twitter since I left for a week. All those news pales in comparison to the introduction of native lists on Twitter.
We’ve used groups on advanced Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic already but this week Twitter lists went live for everybody on the Web interface at Twitter.com
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Twitter Friday: Twitter Lists Galore!

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Two years ago when I started using twitter I wasn’t impressed. The people came in dozens from there, even when the actual post was about Twitter itself. Later on I realized that many Twitter users do not send a proper referrer due to using some web apps or other tools instead of browsing the actual [...]

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Today I almost forgot to write my Twitter Friday column. Why? I was so preoccupied with the new relaunched StumbleUpon version. To make it short: SU attempts to compete directly with Twitter and Google. This might sound ridiculous but they really do. Theoretically it would be possible: SU exists for several years and has collected [...]

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Twitter Friday: StumbleUpon is not Twitter

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How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren’t that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask:
Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business?
This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless [...]

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30 Twitter Tools for Business

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Do you remember a site called Digg? This is a site that has been very successful in 2006. A few years earlier a site called Slashdot was that popular. Both sites exist today and are used by some fringe groups. Back in their heydays they have been notorious for their “effect”, like in “Slashdot effect” [...]

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Twitter Friday: The Twitter Effect

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While I have written several times already that Twitter or any other social site might ban you out of the blue it just happened to Rishi Lakhani aka @rishil, a well known SEO figure on social media. I even recommended following him on my SEO Twitter users list. Another SEO, @louisventer got banned alias suspended [...]

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Many people still doubt that Twitter has value or that it will ever make money. A year ago the same people cried about Facebook growing but not being profitable. Btw, Google hasn’t been profitable from the start as well. Adwords and Adsense were introduced years after the search engine started. Now Google is the most [...]

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Twitter Friday: Twitter is Worth a Billion and Your Site is NOT

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Every time I launch a new website I try to come up with an overall traffic strategy, not just an SEO strategy. Why? Because traffic is where the money is! Most times, an SEO strategy will take 3-6 months to start seeing rankings and start building a considerable amount of traffic… The truth is I [...]

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Two weeks ago Twitter Friday dealt with teenagers not using Twitter as much as expected. While both the NYT and statistics seemed to have a valid point about teens not tweeting other sources seem to prove exactly the opposite.

Social media giant @zaibatsu has shared one of them [...]

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Twitter Friday: Teens DO Tweet, Don’t They?

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