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How to Use Twitter’s Web Intents

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Social Media, Twitter

Twitter web intentsTwitter released an awesome new service in late March by the name of Web Intents. With it, you can turn your website in to a light Twitter client where users can Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Favourite and Follow through optimised pop-up windows.

The advantages to this allow users to quickly and easily do all of the above without leaving your website or having to authorising a new application.

How do I implement it?

What’s more Twitter have made the implementation of this feature an absolute breeze so even the most novice of developers can add Web Intents to their website or blog. The two parts (yes, just two) includes a Javascript file call and then a simple task of using a link. (more…)

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American Idol to Use Facebook for Contestant Voting

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Social Media Optimisation, Twitter

As well as stirring up loads of controversy, X-Factor is a big hitting Saturday night show in the UK. In the most recent series, it seemed contestants had a heads-up of who would be voted off thanks to Twitter. (more…)

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Rolling out a Social Media Strategy without the Social Mediocre

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Social Media

Most companies who want to explore and enter social media will have been in this situation: They spend days and weeks devising an amazing social media strategy, sold it to the employees, got everyone onboard and then pressed the green button.

Everyone is really up for blogging, tweeting and recording relevant content to get the strategy moving. All of a sudden, momentum drops and the company’s social media revolution quickly fizzles out like a damp firework. (more…)

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Twitter’s Top 10 Trends for 2010

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Social Media Optimisation, Twitter

Twitter has released its top 10 trends of 2010 showing which topics have got the world talking. Twitter have taken time out to go through and analyse over 25 billion tweets that have been sent in 2010 so far to identify the top 10 most talked about topics.

The BP oil spill became one of America’s biggest environmental disasters with a ruptured pipe that leaked 185 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Lasting 3 months with numerous investigations, there were certainly plenty of talking points surrounding this topic. (more…)

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Today’s Deal of the Day: GroupOn for $2.5 Billion

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Google, Industry News, Social Media

According to sources around the internet, Google are rumoured to have bought GroupOn for $2.5 billion (£1.6 billion) after weeks of negotiating although neither party has yet commented on the deal. (more…)

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