Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner also has a “nofollow&# user list that will algorithmically never follow users who meet certain criteria. Moreover, you can also nofollow people based on their tweets. You can save your profile (bio, URL avatar, background color scheme, and background graphic) to the server and upload a custom one at will.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. More than any other social site on the web, with Digg you have to participate in all aspects of the site. Digg, however, is really hard to “game.&#

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Social Media Strategy Digg Forums 80

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Once upon a time, I stumbled upon a Digg submission of a Sphinn submission of a blog post. Not humanizing your profile.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

Choose a Profile Picture No matter what your reasons for using the service are, I believe everyone should at least take a minute to update their profile with a picture (also known as an avatar). In other words, your avatar is going to be seen in a lot of places on the service so pick something memorable.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The influencers on Twitter tend to be those with the highest (natural) and most targeted follow count (maybe sad, but it’s true) and the influencers on Digg and Reddit are not the content creators, but the people submitting the content. Get An Avatar – An avatar is a simple image that will represent you wherever they go.

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Forums Influencer Avatar Blogger 76