Posted on February 21st, 2010 at 9:37 PM by admin

I’m trying to find a Twitter widget for my personal website, that only displays the latest tweet, not the five latest tweets. So, where can I find one???

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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 3:35 AM by admin

i have found some apps that just let you update your page, i’m looking for the full twitter app.

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Posted on December 26th, 2009 at 4:17 AM by admin

Finding a domain name sometimes can be a hard chore to undertake. You probably think that all the best names are already gone, but you’re wrong. With a little help you can find a domain name that is right for you and your business.

Here are some tips for finding a good domain name:

1. Watch how long your domain name is: The allowable length for a domain name is 63 characters. Choosing a domain name of two words or less is usually advisable, but sometimes you will find that they are already chosen. Longer domain names are sometimes easier to find available.

 

 2. Choose a domain name that is relevant to your business or service

 

3. Try to choose a domain name that has relevant keywords listed in the URL: Many times people will search for products or services by keywords only. Very rarely do people search by URL address.

 

4. Try to choose a domain that ends in .com. This is the most popular and easily remembered.

 

5. Sometimes choosing a domain name that has been used in the past but is expired might help generate traffic to your site as long as it’s relevant to what your company needs. Many times choosing a domain name that has expired has many benefits due to the past owner putting in a lot of time and effort with back links to generate traffic.

 

6. Once you find a domain name you like, park the page with some keywords. This means, even though your website might not be fully up and running, you can park a page. This will allow you more time to get your site going, while giving your domain name some seniority.

Finding a domain name isn’t really hard if you break it down to needs. Follow a few steps

1. Ask yourself what you need to achieve from your domain name

 

 2. Make a list of domain names in different forms with different keywords

 

3. Check out different domain name registrars for expired domain names, if nothing else this could give you an idea of how to choose a domain name

 

4. Do a keyword search to see how many searches are done before choosing the domain name with keyword added.

 

 5. Look for other companies that hold similarity business to get ideas, this will make choosing a domain name easier

 

 

There are many ways to promote your website or business on the net. The problem is the domain name will not be as successful if your website is not search engine friendly. Search engine optimization is a must for all new and old websites to benefit and be seen on the net.

Choosing a domain name doesn’t have to be hard, and really isn’t too hard if you know what your looking for, what you want to achieve and have a goal in mind. Do your home work on any domain name registrar company before committing to buy any domain name. Make sure that the domain name that you choose is not already trademarked by someone else. You do not want to deal with infringement of rights.

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Posted on December 24th, 2009 at 12:41 PM by admin

On the one hand, Twitter is pretty simple: send and receive short messages. On the other hand, what’s with all the symbols and strange terms? In this section, you learn the weird stuff that’s important so that you can use Twitter like a pro.

 

The key terms

Following

To receive messages on Twitter, you follow other people and companies you’re interested in—which means you get their messages as they post (put another way, their messages show up in your incoming timeline on your Twitter home page). Conversely, people get your messages by following you.

Tweet

Users refer to an individual message as a tweet, as in, “Check out this tweet about our CEO dancing on the sidelines of the Phoenix Suns game.” People sometimes use it as a verb, too, as in, “I tweeted about the stimulus package this morning.” If “tweet” is hard for you to use with a straight face in a business context, try “twittering” as a verb instead. Alternatives include “post,” “message” and “update.”

@username

For companies, one of the most useful things about Twitter is that it lets you exchange public messages with individual users. Simply start a message with @username of the person you want to reach, like this:

“@Ev Glad you liked our vegan cookies. Thanks for twittering about ‘em!”

 

If Ev is following your account, your message will appear directly on his Twitter home page. (If he’s not following your account, your message will appear in his folder of @username mentions.) People who are following both you and Ev will also see the message on their Twitter home page. Finally, the message will appear in search results, and people who come to your Twitter home page will see it among the messages in your outgoing timeline.

 

 

Tip: On Twitter, @username automatically becomes a link to that person’s account—helping people discover each other on the system. Put another way: when you see an @username, you can always click through to that person’s Twitter page and learn whether you want to follow them.

 

 

To find the public messages that are directed to you (i.e., those that start with your @BusinessName) or that mention you (i.e., those that include your @BusinessName elsewhere in the tweet), head to your Twitter home page, and then on the right side of the screen, click the tab labeled your @BusinessName. For businesses, it’s a good idea to keep a close eye on incoming @mentions, because they’re often sent by customers or potential customers expecting a reply.

 

 

Tip: To reply easily from the Twitter website, mouse over a message, and then look on the right end for the “Reply arrow”. Click the arrow to start a new message addressed to the original user.

DM, or direct message

Direct messages—or DMs—are Twitter’s private messaging channel. These tweets appear on your home page under the Direct Messages tab, and if you’ve got email notifications turned on, you’ll also get an email message when somebody DMs you. DMs don’t appear in either person’s public timeline or in search results. No one but you can see your DMs.

 

The one tricky concept with DMs is that you can send them only to people who are following you. Conversely, you can receive them only from people you’re following.

 

You can easily send DMs from the Direct Messages tab by using the pull-down menu to choose a recipient and then typing in your note. To send a DM from your home page, start your message with “d username,” like this:

“d Ev Sorry those cookies gave you food poisoning! Would you prefer a refund or a new batch?”

 

 

Tip: If you’re communicating with a customer about something potentially sensitive—including personal information, account numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, etc.—be sure to encourage them to DM or email you. As we mentioned earlier, @mentions are public, so anyone can see them.

RT, or retweet

To help share cool ideas via Twitter and to give a shout-out to people you respect, you can repost their messages and give them credit. People call that retweeting (or RT), and it usually looks something like this: “RT @Username: Original message, often with a link.” Retweeting is common, and it’s a form of conversation on Twitter. It’s also a powerful way to spread messages and ideas across Twitter quickly. So when you do it, you’re engaging in a way people recognize and usually like—making it a good way to connect.

Trending Topics

On the right side of your screen and on the Twitter search page, you’ll see ten Trending Topics, which are the most-mentioned terms on Twitter at that moment. The topics update continually, reflecting the real-time nature of Twitter and true shifts in what people are paying attention to. A key feature of Twitter, Trending Topics aggregate many tweets at once and often break news ahead of the mainstream media. (Note that the trends often include hashtags, described below.)

Hashtag (#)

Twitter messages don’t have a field where you can categorize them. So people have created the hashtag—which is just the # symbol followed by a term describing or naming the topic—that you add to a post as a way of saying, “This message is about the same thing as other messages from other people who include the same hashtag.” Then, when somebody searches for that hashtag, they’ll get all of the related messages.

 

For instance, let’s say you post, “Voted sixty times in tonight’s showdown. #AmericanIdol.” Your message would then be part of Twitter search results for “#AmericanIdol,” and if enough people use the same hashtag at once, the term will appear in Twitter’s Trending Topics.

Companies often use hashtags as part of a product launch (like #FordFiesta), and conferences and events frequently have hashtags associated with them (like #TED).

Tweetup

A tweetup is simply an in-person gathering organized via Twitter, often spontaneous. Companies use them for things like hosting launch parties, connecting with customers and introducing like-minded followers to each other.

Shortened URLs

With just 140 characters at your disposal, Twitter doesn’t give you much room to include URL links—some of which are longer than 140 characters themselves. If you post a link on Twitter via the website, sometimes we automatically shorten the URL for you. There are also a number of services—URL shorteners—that take regular links and shrink them down to a manageable length for tweets, and some even let you track clicks.

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Posted on November 28th, 2009 at 3:51 AM by admin

I don’t know the email ID that they’re using FOR twitter so how can I find them?

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