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What Twitter’s Rate Limit Changes Mean to You

Janet Fouts

When an application like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or a mobile Twitter app like Tweetbot checks your account on Twitter, it’s what is called an “API Call” This does NOT include the number of messages you send through these tools, only the number of times the tool hits the Twitter server to check for more. So who cares?

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Tac Anderson reviews seven of his favorite tools for saving time in social media consumption and management, among them TweetDeck , Twendz and Quora. The Social Media Strategists Power Tools [Consumption] by NewCommBiz. Social Media and Online Video. 9 new rules for YouTube marketing by iMedia Connection. Social media: What lies ahead?

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Don’t Drive Your Blog Distracted

ProBlogger

If you don’t turn off that smart phone, unplug from tweetdeck and mute the television, well you’re going to be interrupted quite a bit when you try to write. Copyright Sergiy Serdyuk - Fotolia.com Here is the first thing that came to mind regarding a time when you shouldn’t be writing.

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

Convince & Convert

Updating Facebook from third parties like Tweetdeck? However, it’s important to recognize that 3 times more people use Facebook from a smart phone every month than use Twitter at all. So as expected, Facebook just added Twitter-style features and functions to its service , to evaporate Twitter’s competitive angle.

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

Convince & Convert

Smart phone-toting attendees could snap a photo of each others’ code, and instantly follow one another within the my.SXSW social network. But do you think, maybe, it had something to do with the fact they were watching their Tweetdeck more than the panel? Largely, it didn’t happen. link] Talmadge Boyd Wow.