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Twitter

Do You Read Before You Retweet?

by Deb Ng on August 31, 2011

Do you know what you’re retweeting? I consider a retweet an endorsement or recommendation, like the sharing of a good book or interesting news item. Yet, every time I see a link receive mass retweets  I wonder if the retweeters are recommending the link  because of it’s content, because they’re supporting the person who dropped [...]

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Ever since joining Google+, I’ve been reading many discussions about how cool this new network is because there’s “less noise.” I’ve never been a fan of  ”noise” as a description of social networking  because most of the interaction there are legitimate attempts at conversation  and referring to it as noise is kind of insulting to those in [...]

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If you have access to my Twitter stream, you may have noticed a lot of hashtags lately. I’m kind of addicted to Twitter chats. If you’re not familiar with them, Twitter chats enable a group of people to have a productive conversation on Twitter following a specific hashtag. Each week, there are dozens taking place [...]

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I pride myself in a nice tidy Twitter timeline. I carefully consider everyone I follow and don’t do so for the sake of acquiring more followers or giving me high numbers. As a result, I get to know everyone I follow a little better than if I blindly followed a bunch of randomness. I do [...]

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10 Types of Retweets

by Deb Ng on February 9, 2011

There’s a lot of retweeting going on lately. This isn’t a bad thing, after all, social networking is about sharing, right? After several years of watching people tweet, I began to realize that retweets and the folks doing the retweeting, take on a type and personality all their own. As Twitter evolves, I find myself [...]

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Is Twitter Becoming a Link Farm?

by Deb Ng on December 5, 2010

Twitter is about sharing. I share, you share, we all share links to our blogging. Plus we share links to other people’s blogging. Plus we share links to videos, cartoons, articles and so much more. It’s getting to the point that when I turn on Twitter, I see more links than actual conversations happening. In [...]

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I find stats to be quite revealing. They tell me who my readers are, where you come from and how many of you come back again. I also find them to be entertaining. For example, the search terms leading you here. My favorite search term yet is one received yesteday, “Deb Ng sells blog makes [...]

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If you’re on Twitter, you may have noticed all of those Paper.li newspapers made up of tweets compiled from Twitter timelines, hashtags and lists. At first glance, it looks like a fun project and maybe something that will direct traffic to everyone on a Twitter stream. It’s a harmless way to share our friends posts [...]

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When I first began Tweeting, I thought I should follow everyone who followed me. Then, I thought that I should follow everyone who follows me, plus a bunch of people who don’t but who I find to be amazing anyway. Then I added a bunch of people who everyone else followed because I thought that [...]

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Twitter is more than just idol chatter, it’s an important tool for research, learning, sharing, and, yes, even finding social media jobs. Those of us who spend a fair bit of time on the social networks know that they present some amazing opportunities. Using Twitter to find social media jobs doesn’t have as much to [...]

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