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How Many Twitter Followers is A Lot of Twitter Followers?

1/23/12 8:22am by Melissa Ford
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Remember back when it was newsworthy that Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to first hit one million followers on Twitter? That was exciting in the moment, but once that flag was firmly planted in the ground, it became a race to see who could gain 10 million followers (Lady Gaga). Or a race to see who could go from zero to one million the fastest (Charlie Sheen in two days). And I'm sure we'll one day be reading a news story about the first person to reach one billion followers. Billion is the new million.  Read more >

From Bridge to Mommy Blogging: Moms Connecting Over the Years

1/13/12 7:43am by SHembree
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When I was young, every so often my mom played Bridge with her other mom friends during the day. Bridge days were days when my mom and her friends got together. Yes, they played cards, but they also talked and laughed. It was a way for them to break out of the social isolation of their world as a stay-at-home mom and connect. Today, that need to connect is still very real. There are playdates and playgroups and meet-ups at Starbucks. And, for the mommy bloggers out there, there is a thriving online community that is both a blessing and a curse.  Read more >

Would You Ever Delete All Your Tweets?

12/28/11 10:35am by Melissa Ford
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Ever have that urge to completely start over your social media world from scratch? Dump all those old blog posts and reinvent your writing life? Clean out your Facebook account and start friending anew? What about wipe out all your old Tweets but keep your followers?  Read more >

Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking, Says Is "Protected Speech"

12/16/11 8:36am by Stacy Morrison
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It's amazing how technology and electronics, and the role they play in our lives today, can be misunderstood and misconstrued. And here's a doozy, and an upsetting one at that: a federal judge has dismissed well-known Twitter cyberstalking case, citing that the Tweets were protected under free speech.  Read more >

You Can't Pass Down Your Tweets

12/13/11 7:59am by lyndagrace
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My great-grandfather came to this country from Italy in the early 1900's.  His supposed intention was to send for his wife and children after he got settled but his family never heard from him again. So his daughter, my grandmother, came to America when she was 16 years old to look for him.  According to my mother, my grandmother said she never found out what happened and wouldn't talk about him anymore.I often think how sad it was that my mother and her siblings never got to know their grandfather or really anything about him.  Read more >

Theaters Embrace Social Media with Tweet Seats

12/6/11 8:31am by Melissa Ford
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Rather than ask people to stop using their cell phones during the show, some places have created designated "tweet seats" for people to sit who want to use social media through the show. It's the same concept of the silent car on the metro or train, except in the reverse since fewer people want to be looking at their cell phone while they're viewing a movie or an opera.  Read more >

Syndicating content from Google Plus to Twitter (Bonus: & Evernote!)

11/26/11 8:56am by spydergrrl
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Disclaimer: Before you read this and think that this is an endorsement of posting all the same content everywhere you post, absolutely not. While I still would rather be an RSS feed, for now you, can rest assured that if you follow me on Twitter or G+, I won't be spamming either platform with all of the content I feature on the other one :)  Read more >

Rainn Wilson and Sponsored Tweets

10/27/11 5:57pm by Melissa Ford
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Think that celebrity you follow on Twitter really really really loves that brand as they promise? Rainn Wilson provided an amusing set of pretend tweets satirizing the idea of paid celebrity endorsement updates. In a pretend gaffe, he tweeted that he would accept $12,000 for a paid endorsement for Del Taco, and then followed it up with another tweet pretending that the first thoughts were supposed to be a direct message to his assistant.  Read more >

Conference Corner: BlogHer Writers ’11 Session Hashtags

10/19/11 10:57am by jes
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For anyone following BlogHer Writers ’11 on Twitter, BlogHer has developed hashtags for each breakout session and keynote. This way, attendees can include their tweets in the larger #BlogHerWriters stream, or they can hyper-focus on panels with their favorite nuggets of information from speakers, other attendees they are meeting, what they are doing, etc. The full list of conference hashtags are included in the table below, organized by session.  Read more >

Twitter Tips for Shy Tweople

10/13/11 5:00am by Christine S
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I probably should not be on Twitter. But I am. I imagined social media to be the perfect opportunity to make myself over. To edit out my flaws and put my best, wittiest, most confident and sexiest foot forward. Always. I wanted total control of the way I would be perceived. And, if I just wanted to tweet in a bubble, I could probably get that.  Read more >