What Does Twitter’s New Censoring Ability Mean To You?

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Like many social networks, Twitter is a very powerful platform for connecting people. While some of us might use it for nothing more than complaining about coworkers or sharing pictures of our lunch, others are using Twitter to take down governments and stop poorly-worded bills from becoming laws. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it has refined … [Read more]

How People Are Traveling This Holiday Season, Winter Travel Infographic

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Are you packing up for your Holiday travels? Or maybe you are already on the road, at the airport or waiting at the train station. Twitter is on fire with Holiday travel tweets, from complaints about plane delays (what’s new?) to how people are booking their flights and hotels. The people at Mashwork were curious … [Read more]

The BlogWorld Community – Places to Connect Online

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Isn’t the internet a wonderful place? One of the things I love most is the various types of communities around. You’ve got Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so many more! It’s pretty great that you can choose to be part of one, ten, or twenty different communities on any given topic. That being said, … [Read more]

Three Ways to Use Twitter Lists to Build Blog Traffic

When I first signed up for Twitter, I didn’t use the list function at all. I didn’t even realize they had one, and I was following so few people that it didn’t really matter whether or not I had them categorized. As I began to “meet” people online and the number of people I followed … [Read more]

Participating in a Twitter Community

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… by James Dabbagian #Blogchat #Socialchat #BWEchat #Likeablechat What do all these things have in commom? ….OK….Aside from the “chat” part? These are all hashtags for different Twitter chats. You’ve probably seen them from time to time as people in your stream participate in them. Maybe you scoffed at the idea, simply viewing them as … [Read more]

Netflix’s Qwikster Twitter Dilemma and Letter from the CEO

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Netflix has been in the news quite a bit lately between their pricing changes and now the announcement their DVD delivery service is changing names. Netflix’s DVD delivery service will now be called Qwikster, which is “coming soon”. The company CEO Reed Hastings said they chose that name because of their quick delivery of the … [Read more]

46 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Triberr

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Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge list of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see … [Read more]

Facebook Comes in 5th on the “50 Things You Couldn’t Live Without” List

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Facebook comes in 5th place on a “50 things you couldn’t live without list” beating out things like a flushing toilet, a shower, email and Twitter. Actually, Twitter came in last place at number 50, but at least it made the list! The list I am referring to is a recent study conducted by the … [Read more]

The Motorola Droid Bionic is #worththewait

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The people behind the Motorola Twitter page have been busy bees. It looks like they have ramped up a social media campaign where they are giving people a free Droid BIONIC saying it’s #worththewait. Here are a few of their latest tweets. “@hockette We know it’s been awhile but we’re making it worth-your-while. DM your … [Read more]

Google+ Launching a “Suggested User” List

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Do you have more than 100,000 followers on Twitter? Yeah, me neither but for those of you who do, you could end up on the Google+ “Suggested user” list. According to a tweet Google’s Bradley Horowitz put out today, Google+ is about to pilot a Twitter-like suggested user program. He tweeted, “We’re about to pilot … [Read more]