Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Using Twitter to pimp your content – it really works

Posted: 4th December 2010 by By Adrian Willings in SEO
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The other day I wrote a simple article about how I enjoyed a bit of zombie killing on Red Dead Redemption, as usual my post was automatically tweeted on my Twitter account (@Age_Dub) for the world and their mother to see. Rockstar games, the actual developer of the game actively monitor their brand and often [...]

It seems film director/madman Tim Burton is putting rather clever use to the world of social media by making people write stories for him. Any Tweet with the hashtag #burtonstory could form part of his Cadavre Exquis: Cadavre Exquis or “Exquisite Corpse” is a technique used to collectively tell a story. Each contributor adds to [...]

It’s that time of year again #UKSnow

Posted: 29th November 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting Discoveries
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It’s that time of year again. Stepped outside my house this morning and nearly fell on my arse. There’s a lovely coating of crisp white snow. The first to fall around our way, but we’re not the first place hit. Of course, this snowfall means #UKSnow is up again. People all over Britain are tweeting [...]

Viral Tweets – Greater Manchester Police #gmp24

Posted: 15th October 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting Discoveries
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Yesterday, Greater Manchester Police announced that they would be using three Twitter accounts to tweet the 999 calls they got throughout the day. For 24 hours from 5.00am this morning, Thursday 14 October, Greater Manchester Police will be publishing details of every incident that it deals with on Twitter to allow the public to see [...]

Twitter gets an upgrade

Posted: 16th September 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting Discoveries
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Yep, Twitter is getting an upgrade. Some nice new features to improve usability and make things sexy. Probably the best new feature is the addition of embedded video and images. So if someone posts a link to a video or a picture then it will automatically be displayed on the right. Nice. Other additions appeal [...]

Shank Shank Shank! (and FML)

Posted: 10th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting Discoveries
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Some things in life are just a mystery, while others give you more of a WTF feeling. Sometimes, if you’re really lucky, you get both sensations at the same time. This occurred to me this morning when @ABC_Copywriting responded to one of my Tweets and so did a perfect stranger. Of course being human I [...]

Fake Twitter accounts getting more followers

Posted: 4th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in SEO
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In more BP related news, it seems that the oil giant is a victim of fake Twitter accounts in its name. This is not a new phenomena. Plenty of celebreties have been “name jacked” in the same way that domain names are purchased by sneaky domain ninjas before they can be bought by the real [...]

Shortened URL’s, can they be trusted?

Posted: 29th April 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings
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Just rambling here, as always, but there’s one problem with Twitter (and the internet I general since its inception) and that, to my mind is short URL’s. As we all know, there’s a character limit on tweet and so a number of URL shortening services popped up all over the internet, with a simple premise [...]

Earlier today I discovered a new funky Firefox add-on – Twitter Bar. Thought it was worth sharing. Quite a simple add-on, it allows you to quickly and easily Tweet the page you are viewing and share it with your followers. Quite handy if you discover something on the web worth sharing but can’t be bothered [...]

Blackberry Curve 8900 (review)

Posted: 21st April 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Reviews
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I wrote a review of this phone a while back but I think it’s worth writing a new review. Blackberry have always been a business man’s phone or at least that’s the stereotype. To be honest, I didn’t get mine for that reason. I got it because it was free on my contract and has [...]