Twitter SPAM can get you BANNED!

No one likes SPAM! I’m not talking about the canned meat product. I happen to like the stuff myself. It reminds me of camping when I was a kid. What I am talking about is that which clogs our inboxes, dilutes and degrades the integrity and usefulness of … well, pretty much every new form of communication that arises.

In Twitter’s blog post “State of Twitter Spam” they identify

Twitter SPAM as “behaviors that range from insidious to annoying. Posting harmful links to phishing or malware sites, repeatedly posting duplicate tweets, and aggressively following and un-following accounts to attract attention”

You Can Buy Brand Love on Twitter?

Need Twitter Followers for Your Client’s Brand? Buy Quality Twitter Followers Now!

If this statement appealed to you, you want to read what I have to say. If you read this statement and wondering what’s Twitter, stop reading right now. I’m serious - Go! This post isn’t for you. This post if for the Twitter marketing elite – the Twitterati.

This post will reveal the TRUTH about buying Twitter followers. The TRUTH is…

What's the (Google) Buzz?

As anyone with Gmail or their ear to ground has realized Google Buzz has been released.

I was both excited and hesitant to try it out. I was excited because Chrome in all its sleek simplicity has been my chosen browser for a few months, and Gmail and Google Talk have also been a daily mainstay for some time now. I was hesitant because Orkut never clicked with me and most importantly I really don’t want yet another social media hub.

The main features as noted in the Buzz launch video are:

1. Auto following

Twitter: Fad or Essential Business Communication Tool?

From those who claim that Twitter is just a fad, to internet experts who believe that the impact of Twitter is being felt in ways never imagined, the news is abuzz with reports of this social media website.

Love it or hate it, Twitter is here to stay, with its user numbers having grown at the rate of 752 percent in 2008 alone. Facebook is still the #1 networking site in terms of numbers and user loyalty and not all businesses might need to get into the social networking sphere.

Social Media One Hit Wonder?

Twitter: Fad or Essential Business Communication Tool?

Twitter for Local Business

This is the slide deck from my presentation at Local Search Summit “Using Facebook & Twitter to Drive Local Leads” this afternoon.

We had a great crowd and I enjoyed the heck out of putting this slide show together. I was trying to position some real tactics in using Twitter for local business.

I’m hopeful that it was tactical versus theoretical and I look forward to your feedback.

Please, please, please ask questions and let me know what more you’d like to know.

delicious Links from Today 5/12/09

I have come to love delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us which I liked more.

For those of you not already familiar, delicious.com allows you to store all your bookmarks in one place organized by date with tags for secondary management.

I was very fortunate in my reading today, thanks mostly to my friends on twitter .

• Best Fits for Social Media in the Sales Cycle | chrisbrogan.com
• How To Optimize For Conversion In Organic Search Results
• 27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today | SMALL BUSINESS CEO

Twitter is a 1978 Fax Machine - Metcalfe's Law and The Twitter Nielsen Data

First things first: this post is a bit of inside baseball – it may be conceptually interesting but it likely won’t help you market your business.

Metcalfe's Law And The Network Effect

What’s interesting to me about the recent Nielsen data regarding “Twitter Quitters” is that it makes a prediction based on current data without looking at how this technology is like others before it.  Surely Nielsen

doesn’t have data on adoption of all technologies since the beginning of time, but if they thought a little harder they might find some similarities.  Or perhaps they just want the attention of controversy.