There has been a lot of digital ink spilled over Twitter’s local search implications. Over the past few months several Twitter services have launched with a local angle. I thought it would be interesting to get them all in one place and provide some details: Launched by the Praized Media guys, TwitArea is an add-on […]
I just experienced a small earthquake in Pleasanton, CA. My first instinct was to search “Pleasanton earthquake” on Twitter. Here were the results I got: I then did the same search on Google and found these results:
There are some great posts out there about how businesses can use Twitter, but I just stumbled across this LATimes article about a company that’s trying to get business by encouraging customers to stop using Twitter. A boutique hotel chain, Broughton Hospitality, is promoting a “digital detox” called “Retweet With Broughton”. They’ll give you 30% […]
Ok I am hung up on Twitter today. Here’s another thing I learned at the Kelsey Conference about Twitter – It’s an amazing marketing tool at conferences. During the conference the moderators periodically mentioned that people should tweet conference-related stuff using #marketplaces2009 so that all of the conference tweets would be easy to find in […]
Just starting to try out TwitterHawk. The idea is that you can track when someone on Twitter is talking about a specific subject in a specific location and send them an automated response that is somewhat relevant. For example if I am an attorney in Pleasanton, CA, I could track everytime someone in the area […]
I am testing out the Flock Web Browser this morning and my initial impression is that it could be an amazing tool for social media marketers. It’s essentially Firefox with a large number of social media plugins built into the browser. Thus far I have updated my Twitter status, told my Facebook friends what I […]
Tis the season to do nice things and Local.com has come up with a nice promotion to get advertisers to sign up. According to the press release: Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM)…today announced the launch of a new holiday program in which the company will be donating one toy to Toys for Tots for each business […]
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Just discovered Twellow, a new kind of online yellow pages that uses Twitter profiles to populate business listings. I haven’t spent much time poring through it but it sparked some initial thoughts: This is an interesting strategy to aggregate business listings, particularly of those small businesses that would not show up in a standard yellow […]
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