Category Archives: Social Media

Latest information on Web 2.0 and Social Media Channels and how to take advantange of them in a Social Blog Network

Building a Twitter Following

[caption id="attachment_2271" align="alignleft" width="150"] Twitter[/caption] One of the tasks I get my outsourcer to do is to build Twitter followers by following others.  It’s a simple strategy whereby you search Twitter for people active in your niche who have a large number of followers and then you follow their followers.   Twitter then notifies the people…
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Social Media Managers

A new role all business need in the internet age is that of a Social Media Manager whose main responsibility is to look after social media channels which have become vitally important in maintaining a connection with your customers and potential customers. Typically this will include working with the following services: Facebook Pages Google Plus…
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What Happened to Twellow for Twitter

One of the useful Twitter websites recommended in "How to Save $100,000 a year on Google AdWords" was Twellow.com.  Twellow was a free service that located Twitter accounts via relevant business categories in a specified area and was often referred to as the Yellow Pages of Twitter.

Unfortunately the site and twitterlocal.net appear to have gone permanently off-line and I can find little information on the internet to explain their demise. I suspect the advertising revenue could no longer cover the costs of maintaining the service.  For an alternative service take a look at www.localtweeps.com which is still live.

Other recommended tools for Twitter include:

All these sites are all live at the time of writing this post and as promised it's our intention to keep our followers up to date with any changes we become aware of so do let us know if things change or you have found another top Twitter tool you would like to share.

 

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