article thumbnail

Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When email is unavailable, there’s almost always SMS. Last week, when I went to Seattle, I was in a timezone that put my family three hours ahead of me. Still, they were interested in my whereabouts and wanted me to email them. Have them check your Twitter page to see that you are safe and sound.

Twitter 131
article thumbnail

Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. Some UI genius has to come out with a program that integrates social network updates, chat, blogging, and micro-blogging into a small easy to use interface like Adium. People don’t like to be disconnected.

article thumbnail

Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

« NBA Launches Social Network | Main. Be sure to turn off SMS alerts if you use these feeds since they will pile up.). saving delicious bookmarks using yahoo alerts, The yahoo alert is generated on the rss feed and hence does not show the tags to the bookmark. Social Commerce. Social Networking.

article thumbnail

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. Also, 73% of Twitter users send SMS text messages multiple times per day.

article thumbnail

Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

People will share content on mobile devices through IR/SMS/email. You will be able to take a photo of barcodes that will be located everywhere (menus, receipts, posters, signs, business cards, etc.) and your phone will visit the related Web site. All sites will have to display on mobile devices.

article thumbnail

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

article thumbnail

Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. But PLURK? I LOVE PLURK! I’m thinking of changing my class’s assignment to PLURK, yes, I am! It works for that purpose just fine.

Twitter 199