15 Sep 2010

Meet the new Twitter.com

Meet the new Twitter.com

An easier, faster, and richer experience.


New design

You will now find @mentions, retweets, searches, and lists just above your timeline – creating a single, streamlined view on the left of the screen. On the right, you can see the features you’re familiar with, including whom you recently followed and who recently followed you, favorites, and Trending Topics.


View photos, videos, and other media content

Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with Dailybooth, DeviantArt, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, Twitvid, USTREAM, Vimeo, Yfrog, and YouTube.



Mini profiles

You can click a @username to see a mini profile without navigating from the page, which provides quick access to account information, including bio and recent Tweets.


Rollout timing

These changes will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks. During the preview, you'll be able to switch back and forth so you have time to grow accustomed to the way things work. Eventually, everyone will have the updated version of Twitter.com.

Are you a fan of the new Twitter? Will it some of your time away from your favorite Twitter desktop client or from Facebook? How do you see the new twitter changing existing Twitter marketing and social media marketing strategies and tactics?

22 Jun 2010

FourWhere = Gowalla + Foursquare + Yelp (by Sysomos)

FourWhere helps you to find comments, tips for venues left by Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp users. FourWhere automatically retrieves and aggregates user comments and visualizes them on the map. To use FourWhere, provide your location, and then click on the map to see venues (locations) or tips (comments written about a particular place).

FourWhere is public service so there's no need to register or sign in. All you need is your web browser. Go ahead, start discovering the world around you.

FourWhere is built by Sysomos using the public data from Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and the Google Maps API.

Got your basic all in one geo location gizmo we've all longed for. Foursquare, Yelp & Gowalla

22 Jun 2010

How to Globalize Your Social Strategy: 4 Ways B2B Companies Can Translate Tweets

Twitter is a global platform with more than 60% of users outside the United States and one way B2B companies can grow their business is to monitor and engage with customers and prospects in other languages. In some instances that means reading and writing tweets in languages that you do not understand. There are a variety of tools that embed translation into their interface, and here are some of the most popular.

Review of Tweet Translation services available in Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Twaitter, Tweetmeme.

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Brent Purves is a Vancouver Internet marketing consultant & social media marketing strategist for businesses in Canada, USA and around the world. Learn more at Stir, an online marketing, advertising & web solutions agency.

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