What if Twitter decided to kill the ubiquitous retweet button? Power twitter users already implore tweetchat participants to lay off the RT button. With so much doubt and baggage, maybe Mr. Dorsey and his Twitter crew should reconsider the RT again. Specifically, bloggers and site owners wouldn’t be able to put the button alongside their content, however the retweet function would still work within Twitter clients like Tweetdeck and Hootsuite and the Twitter.com site. Higher Quality Twitter Followings. Would it be Twittergeddon? Inspired Editorial. MORE >>

Is mobile marketing recently a part of your inbound marketing strategy? Social sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have apps out there to make it dump easy to communicate and update the network from the run. To ignore this growing mobile marketing trend could be a very dangerous failure for your business! Did you thought about to make use of mobile apps to improve your location based marketing? Services like Foursquare are best examples how businesses use location based marketing to reach a wider audience. Tweet this on Twitter! MORE >>

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Create a custom url for your Facebook Page by cinta5 on June 17, 2010 After being asked a few times how to get a custom url for a Facebook page I decided to go ahead and create a post on how to do it. First, in order to create a custom url the page has to have 25 “fans&# or “likes&#. Once that number is met, go to facebook.com/username and click on “Set a username for your Pages&# There you can create what you’d like your url to be. MORE >>

The line is simply the url, sometimes this will be the page url but more likely to conserve space a url shortening service would be used. Most social bites these days will have to pass through twitter at some point therefore a bite needs to be suitable otherwise people might change it. Taking a list of 1000 twitter usernames revealed the mean average length is 9 characters: 0-6 – 13%. It may also be important to allow for additional commentary to support the predetermined social bite, or to allow for SEO friendly URL shortening which can also boost response. MORE >>

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general. Twitter users frequently exchange information about products and services.” MORE >>