Participating in a Twitter Community

James Dabbagian

… 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]

Twitter Founders Announce New Project – Lift

Lift

Twitter founders – Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman – have announced their latest project together under The Obvious Corporation. Stone revealed back towards the end of June he was leaving Twitter and pursuing other projects as he relaunched The Obvious Corporation. We now have a glimpse into what their first project is – … [Read more]

Microsoft’s Recruitment Attempt to webOS Developers Receives 1000 Responses

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After Hewlett-Packard announced the death of the TouchPad and webOS phones, Microsoft’s Brandon Watson tweeted a message to webOS developers. Here’s a screenshot of his tweet. The large response he received was completely unexpected, causing him to make a change in the way he decided to respond to everyone. As of this morning, he has … [Read more]

Naked Pizza’s Witty & Fun Twitter Messages Attracts Investors

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Do you have a start up company that could use some funding from investors? Or maybe you’re trying to figure out how to attract more customers. You might want to look into what Naked Pizza has been doing and try it for yourself. What are they doing exactly? Showing some attitude and personality on Twitter, … [Read more]

Retweet Makes Its Way into the Oxford English Dictionary

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I was just mentioning yesterday how  Facebooking and Tweeting are on dictionary.com. News broke today that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has added 400 new words to its dictionary, one being retweet. Retweet, the act of sharing tweets of those you follow, is common practice on Twitter. Retweeting began back in 2008 and in August … [Read more]