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Art News from Twitter for March 8th, 2010. Posted in Contemporary Artists. 0 comments. What are artists and art-lovers talking about? Here are the latest twitter art related tweets from March 8th, 2010. thefuschiatree - Profile Pic …

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In what looks, at the very least, like an excellent PR stunt, News Ltd’s Taste supplement is to start publishing Twitter -friendly recipes. The first.

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If you have spent any time around social marketing you probably know that SEO and social media go hand and hand. (Well you have at least heard about it, right?) So, how do you turn your Twitter account into a search-able masterpiece? Why is this important? Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your hats, press on and don’t worry, I will keep this in 5 year old terms (because that is how I think). Let’s start off as if you are starting with a fresh profile. What is the first thing that you do when starting a twitter account? That is right, pick a name… Picking a user name and actual name: Your twitter user name should include the keyword that you wish to rank high in. For example, if you want people to find your Twitter profile when they search for cupcakes, make sure that ‘cupcakes’ is in your name. @XYZcupcakes would be an appropriate example. It is usually a good idea not to use any dashes, make it short and easy to remember. Next, with your actual name you can use your actual name, or take a step further and include the keyword again if it is appropriate (this doesn’t help with personalizing your account to you though). If you already have an account, you can fix this by logging into your Twitter account and clicking “Settings”. From there, change your ‘Name’. Do not change your ‘Username’. What to do with your website URL… Make sure not to use a link that has been shortened by using a shortner like bit.ly. Do however, get rid of the “www” because Twitter will only show the first 20 characters, it will help in allowing people to see the link before they click on it. If you need to change this, go into your Twitter account and click “settings”. From there go to the “Account” page and scroll halfway down the page. Next is your bio… This should be easy to include your keywords again. Make sure that your personality can shine through, but be short simple and to the point

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Nick O’Neill / All Facebook : Facebook Releases Their Version Of Retweets As Twitterfication Continues

When was the last time you checked your Facebook privacy settings? Do you know what your profile and activity look like to the rest of the world? Is Google indexing your personal information? Follow along as Social Media Strategist Jen…

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First out of the gate among local publishers, Citysearch has integrated Twitter to such a degree that the site is now a “Twitter client” — literally. The new functionality allows businesses to sign up for Twitter (or integrate their existing accounts) and tweet directly from Citysearch. In addition users can interact with business owners or reps using Twitter directly on the profile page on Citysearch. Third party mentions of the business are also integrated on the profile page. Here’s an example to illustrate (identified in the release): Beyond the three most recent Tweets on business profile pages, there’s a link that take users to a page to see more comments: The idea being promoted is that you can “manage your online reputation across the web from one location.” There’s Facebook integration as well: Integration of social media and “online reputation management” is a new “front” in the war to win the hearts, minds and loyalty of local advertisers. Many if not most local publishers operate a “network” of some sort, including Citysearch, which involves managing an online ad spend for SMBs with SEO services and/or distribution to third party sites (including Google/search). Online reputation monitoring and/or distribution of SMB promotions and communications to sites like Twitter and Facebook is a kind of parallel suite of services that will very soon become a must to complement more conventional advertising. MerchantCircle was first (in early 2007 ) with a basic version of something like this: collecting reviews about local businesses from selected sites. GetListed is also in this broader space, although focused on the existence and consistency of listings. And most recently Marchex developed a very rich SMB reputation management and monitoring tool.  The degree to which SMBs “get” social media and sites like Twitter and Facebook is variable but growing . Steve Espinosa of eLocal Listing (and elsewhere) told me informally that he’s seen about 5% of local SMBs in the database with pages on Facebook. That’s very quickly closing in on a million SMBs if not already at that number. Without citation to a source TechCrunch says , ”There are now over a million local businesses which have claimed their Google local listing.”  We’ll probably see something like 10% to 20% of SMBs doing self-service (broadly defined) in the next couple of years. While that means 80% are not, we’re talking about an audience of SMBs the size of the existing US yellow pages advertiser base in the aggregate.  This coming year, 2010, will be the year that “social media” goes mainstream for SMBs and a majority of the major publishers operating in the space integrate the content (Tweets) into their own sites and establish tools, such as what Citysearch has done, to enable SMBs to tap into Twitter and Facebook.  Urbanspoon, now owned by IAC, has also started integrating Tweets into its pages. “In just a few weeks Urbanspoon has collected over 4,000 restaurant Twitter usernames nationwide, with more to come,” says the press release. We’re going to see more and more interesting things developed around Twitter data feeds by third parties (like this) in the local and mobile segments this next year as well.

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Citysearch Becomes a ‘Twitter Client’

I’m not sure if this is old news, but it’s the first time I’ve spotted it. Google is now showing extra information in the profile snippets for Linked

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The above tweet ended a lively discussion I had with @Ed and a few others about the use of 3rd party ads in Twitter. I’ve said before that I am open to the idea, although I’ve not yet posted any ads to my Twitter feed . Anyway, as this week is going to be a little quiet–what with Thanksgiving coming up–I thought I’d publish a poll and see what your thoughts are on the subject. Will You UnFollow Those That Place Ads in Their Tweets? ( polls )

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Poll: Will You UnFollow Those That Place Ads in Their Tweets?

The ability to retweet on Twitter was already available and has been mostly of use to those in business situations who could take advantage of their followers retweeting their promotions. This has been drastically changed with the retweet feature now being in a simple to use button under any of your feeds tweets. You may ask yourself why you would bother retweeting more often just because of a button, and you are right to do so. After all you are just making the ones you follow more exposed to the tweeters who follow you. However this works both ways. Your tweets can also be retweeted by your followers. The new feature doesn’t just place a simple RT in front of the retweeted tweet on your profile. By being retweeted your profile picture and username appears next to your own tweet, on someone else’s page! For example today I retweeted @johncmayer and his photo and link appeared on my profile. For him this means that now all of my followers (who otherwise may not have seen his tweet) have been exposed to his content and may choose to follow him and/or retweet it again creating a ripple effect and sending his message to an entirely new audience. By being promoted by other twitter users one could potentially gain thousands of new followers. Which we all know translates to twinfluence. For social users who hover around 100-200 followers this provides an avenue for increased twitter success. It should be noted however that without interesting tweets you are unlikely to be retweeted in this new fashion so although the features are useful, tweet-quality is still king in what determines your networking success. The new feature also gives even more power to those with staggering amounts of followers already. For example @aplusk who is almost at 4 million followers could choose to retweet a message and give that person’s content access to the gargantuan amount of followers he has.

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How The New Retweet Feature Changes Marketing On Twitter