Tips Mendapatkan Banyak Followers di Twitter

Beautiful Day Blog | Tips Mendapatkan Banyak Follower di Twitter | Memiliki banyak follower di Twitter merupakan hal yang sangat bagus. Anda bisa mempromosikan sesuatu dengan cepat dalam waktu yang singkat.

Jika Anda seorang selebritis atau seseorang yang terkenal, mendapatkan ribuan follower bukanlah hal yang sulit. Namun, kenyataannya Anda hanya orang biasa yang tidak pernah tampil di televisi.

Banyaknya follower di Twitter tidak hanya membuat Anda lebih mudah untuk mempromosikan sesuatu. Jumlah follower yang banyak juga bisa membantu Anda ketika ingin bertanya tentang sesuatu hal.

Berikut ini tips mendapatkan banyak follower di Twitter, seperti yang dikutip dari galtime.

Profil lengkap
Berikan informasi yang jelas pada akun Twitter Anda, tergantung pada apa yang Anda promosikan (diri sendiri, perusahaan atau produk). Jika Anda seorang penulis, sebaiknya menuliskan nama lengkap Anda atau nama dari buku Anda.

Dalam profil, deskripsikan siapa diri Anda dengan singkat dan jelas. Jangan lupa menggunakan foto diri yang paling menarik sebagai avatar di Twitter.

Informatif
Orang mem-follow orang lain karena mereka tertarik dengan cara orang tersebut berbicara. Anda tidak perlu nge-twit 50 kali dalam sehari untuk menarik perhatian mereka, namun lakukanlah saat informasi yang relevan yang akan berguna bagi para follower Anda.

Jadi follower
Anda juga perlu mem-follow orang lain untuk menarik perhatian mereka (karena notifikasi akan muncul di email-nya). Idealnya, Anda mem-follow orang lain sebanyak orang lain mem-follow Anda, namun tidak wajib mem-follow orang yang sudah menjadi follower Anda.

Mengobrol
Twitter dibuat untuk satu grup chat yang besar. Pelajari tentang RT (Retweet) dan hashtags (#) sehingga Anda bisa berkomunikasi dengan pengguna Twitter lain yang belum mem-follow Anda.

Bangun Rencana
Membuat akun Twitter tentu dengan niat tertentu. Jika Anda berniat untuk mempromosikan suatu produk, maka gunakanlah akun tersebut dengan sebagaimana mestinya. Hindari nge-twit tentang panasnya sinar matahari atau macetnya jalanan. Dengan konsisten nge-twit sesuai dengan tujuan awal, maka Anda akan mendapatkan pasar yang tepat.

Source: blog.indojunkers.com

5 Situs Social Network Yang Paling banyak Diminati

Beautiful Day Blog | 5 Situs Social Network Yang Paling Banyak Diminati |

Facebook

 

Facebook atau disingkat FB adalah sebuah situs web jejaring sosial populer yang diluncurkan pada 4 Februari 2004. Facebook didirikan oleh Mark Zuckerberg, seorang Mahasiswa Harvard kelahiran 14 Mei 1984 dan mantan murid Ardsley High School. Keanggotaannya pada awalnya dibatasi untuk siswa dari Harvard College. Dalam dua bulan selanjutnya, keanggotaannya diperluas ke sekolah lain di wilayah Boston (Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, dan semua sekolah yang termasuk dalam Ivy League. Banyak perguruan tinggi lain yang selanjutnya ditambahkan berturut-turut dalam kurun waktu satu tahun setelah peluncurannya. Akhirnya, orang-orang yang memiliki alamat surat-e suatu universitas (seperti: .edu, .ac, .uk, dll) dari seluruh dunia dapat juga bergabung dengan situs jejaring sosial ini.
 

Selanjutnya dikembangkan pula jaringan untuk sekolah-sekolah tingkat atas dan beberapa perusahaan besar. Sejak 11 September 2006, orang dengan alamat surat-e apa pun dapat mendaftar di Facebook. Pengguna dapat memilih untuk bergabung dengan satu atau lebih jaringan yang tersedia, seperti berdasarkan sekolah, tempat kerja, atau wilayah geografis.

Hingga Juli 2007, facebook memiliki jumlah pengguna terdaftar paling besar di antara situs-situs yang berfokus pada sekolah dengan lebih dari 34 juta anggota aktif yang dimilikinya dari seluruh dunia. Dari September 2006 hingga September 2007, peringkatnya naik dari posisi ke-60 ke posisi ke-7 situs paling banyak dikunjungi, dan merupakan situs nomor satu untuk foto di Amerika Serikat, mengungguli situs publik lain seperti Flickr, dengan 8,5 juta foto dimuat setiap harinya.

Fitur hiburan dalam Facebook disebut aplikasi. Contohnya antara lain permainan video, kuis, dan lain sebagainya.

Twitter

 

Twitter adalah sebuah situs mikroblog dan situs web jejaring sosial yang memberikan fasilitas bagi pengguna untuk mengirimkan “pembaharuan” berupa tulisan teks dengan panjang maksimum 140 karakter melalui SMS, pengirim pesan instan, surat elektronik, atau aplikasi seperti Twitterrific dan Twitbin. Twitter didirikan pada Maret 2006 oleh perusahaan rintisan Obvious Corp. Kata twitter secara harfiah berarti ‘berkicau’.Situs ini mempunyai konsep blog mikro dalam penggunaannya.Di Indonesia situs jejaring sosial ini mempunyai pengguna aktif yang cukup banyak.

Kesuksesan Twitter membuat banyak situs lain meniru konsepnya, kadang menawarkan layanan spesifik lokal suatu negara atau menggabungkan dengan layanan lainnya. Suatu sumber bahkan menyebutkan bahwa paling tidak ada 111 situs web yang memiliki layanan mirip dengan Twitter

Friendster

Friendster, yang ide penamaannya berasal dari nama Napster, adalah sebuah situs web jejaring sosial yang memberikan fasilitas untuk membuat profil dan kemudian mengisi data dirinya untuk kemudian mendapatkan akun di Friendster. Dalam Friendster, kita juga dapat melihat teman dari teman kita dan teman dari teman dari teman kita, selain melihat teman kita sendiri.
 

Friendster dimulai sejak tahun 2002 oleh Jonathan Abrams dan sekarang sudah melewati masa beta test. Sejak awal 2005, Friendster juga telah memulai fitur blog.

Saat ini Friendster telah menginternasionalisasi bahasanya yang semula hanya bahasa Inggris, saat ini telah tersedia bahasa Indonesia, bahasa Tionghoa, bahasa Spanyol, bahasa Korea, bahasa Jepang, bahasa Vietnam, bahasa Malaysia.
Sejak Desember 2009 MOL Malaysia telah membeli Friendster seharga AS$ 100 juta.

MySpace

MySpace adalah situs web jejaring sosial populer yang menawarkan jaringan antar teman, profil pribadi, blog, grup, foto, musik, dan video untuk remaja dan dewasa di seluruh dunia. MySpace adalah tempat untuk mempromosikan band baru. Markas situs ini terletak di Beverly Hills, California, Amerika Serikat.

Multiply

Multiply.com menyediakan layanan blog. Blog yang di-posting ke Multiply.com dapat secara otomatis diteruskan ke akun LiveJournal, Blogger atau TypePad. Dimungkinkan pula untuk mem-posting via surat elektronik atau MMS. Pengguna juga dapat memberikan komentar terhadap sebuah film atau buku, dan pengguna juga dapat berbagi jadwal acara berdasarkan kalender.

Source: unik.supericsun.com

Waspada, Link Berbahaya di Twitter

Beautiful Day Blog | Waspada, Link Berbahaya di Twitter | Link berbahaya menyerang Twitter dengan bentuk nama domain menyerupai Google. Link tersebut beralamat ‘goo.gl/R7f68’.

Link ini membawa korban langsung ke situs berbahaya. Bahayanya, link ini tak hanya diposting akun spam tapi akun resmi juga. Alhasil, virus menyebar luas melalui profil pengguna.

Virus di link ini menyerang Twitter selama sekitar enam jam. Untungnya, pakar keamanan berhasil melacak virus tersebut. Situs ini juga menemukan link berbahaya lain yang mulai muncul di Twitter.

Link tersebut berbunyi, “Just found the easiest way to track who follows and unfollows you – http://goo.gl/kLE5M.” (Baru saja menemukan cara termudah melacak siapa yang follow dan unfollow Anda).

Dari pencarian cepat di Twitter diketahui pengirim link tersebut berasal dari pengguna yang sama. Hal serupa dialami Facebook pekan lalu.

“Jika Anda telah meng-klik link ini, masuk ke dalam Twitter dan batasi akses follower Anda untuk mencegah penyebaran virus lebih lanjut. Jika tidak, lebih berhati-hatilah pada link goo.gl apapun,” ingat pakar keamanan.

Source: blog.indojunkers.com

Satu Tweet Seleb Dunia Dihargai Rp 44,7 Juta

Beautiful Day Blog | Satu Tweet Seleb Dunia Dihargai Rp 44,7 Juta | Para pengiklan sepertinya kini melirik Twitter untuk mempromosikan produk mereka dengan menggunakan twitter sejumlah seleb ternama dan memiliki jutaan pengikut.

Seperti diberitakan Sydney Morning Herald, Rabu (27/10/2010), aktris seperti Kim Kardashian ataupun Lindsay Lohan, dan Snoop Dogg dilaporkan menikmati kucuran uang dari sponsor jika mereka bersedia mempromosikan sebuah produk.

Konon, untuk satu tweet dihargai 5.000 dollar AS ( Rp 44,7 juta) hingga 10 ribu dollar AS (Rp 89 juta). Bruce Kaider dari lembaga Sponsorship Australasia mengatakan seleb dunia ini hanya perlu mem-posting produk dari sponsor dan mereka pun memperoleh bayaran.

"Sejumlah selebriti memiliki 50 hingga 100 ribu orang yang mengikuti apa yang mereka lakukan setiap hari. Jadi ini sebuah alat pemasaran yang baik," katanya.

Prodil Lohan yang muncul di SponsoredTweets menyatakan dirikan akan mempromosikan sebuah produk dengan bayaran 2.985,80 dollar AS ( Rp 26,7 juta) sementara Khloe Kardashian yang juga saudara kandung Kim Kardashian menyatakan ia mau memberikan tweet berisi pesan sponsor dengan bayaran 2.941 dollar AS ( Rp 26,2 juta).

Source: http://www.tribunnews.com/2010/10/27/satu-tweet-seleb-dunia-dihargai-rp-447-juta

50 Greatest Twitter Tips & Twitter Secrets

Beautiful Day tips : Twitter is a micro-blogging service and it is very hot now. It allows users to send at most 140 characters to their followers. Twitter opens a new way to connect with other party in the community. It’s so successful because it’s simple and easy to create your own community.
I’ve been tweeting for quite some time now, mainly for personal learning, making new friends, and observing what communities are doing. Following are 50 greatest Twitter tips and Twitter secrets to move you towards a successful experience on Twitter.

1. Pick a memorable username.
2. One tweet one story.
3. Try to follow back when people following you, you’ll get credits for your kind action.
4. No puns for optimized headline.
5. Focus on keywords for optimized headline.
6. Don’t consolidate stories.
7. Link directly to the story.
8. No subheads.
9. Don’t try to fill up 140 characters, keep it short to your point.
10. The highest form of compliment on Twitter is the retweet. Share the love, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
11. Spend some time making a custom background.
12. Don’t make your background look like some sort of advertisement, it turns people off.
13. Speak your mind, be personal and be transparent!
14. Tweet with photo with TwitPic.
15. Be interesting, boring story turns people off.
16. Be informative, now is the time to use Twitter to tell people about your business goals, your professional interests, to spread knowledge and offer customer support.
17. Be interactive.
18. Be considerate, people will feel it.
19. Find a balance, there is no exact number of how many tweets per day.
20. Be a observer, observer what communities are doing.
21. Learn from Twitter user who has most followers.
22. Upload a photo of yourself and show it in your Twitter profile, people love to know who they are chatting with.
23. Try to tweet regularly so that people know you have an active presence.
24. Try to not use Twitter as your own personal “this is what I’m doing” list.
25. Try to add value to the conversation by sharing links.
26. Mix some personal information so that people know you’re a human being and not just an online merchant pushing links.
27. Thank people when they follow you on Twitter with a direct message.
28. Start conversation with the “@” command, don’t just wait for people to talk to you.
29. Ask questions. Twitter is great for getting opinions.
30. Make sure to respond to people that ‘@’ or direct message you to show your respect.
31. Make noise beyond the Twittosphere, this is only way to build a following is for people to know you’re there.
32. Don’t worry about how many Twitter followers you have, if you become an active participant you will see your followers increase.
33. Don’t spam anyone with anything.
34. Promote your Twitter name in your email signature, business cards, websites, blogs. Don’t be afraid to mention Twitter offline either.
35. If you see that people are talking about you (good or bad) on Twitter search, then join in the conversation!
36. Don’t stalk or harass people on Twitter, if someone ignores you, just let it go.  The same goes for you, if people are stalking or harassing you, you can block them on twitter.
37. Go mobile, there’re tons of Twitter apps for the iPhone and Blackberry.
38. Try to keep your Twitter “following/follower” ratio balanced.
39. Fill up your information in Twitter profile, people like to know who you are.
40. Link to a website that’s relevant, preferably your blog or Facebook page.
41. Be patient you won’t build relationships or feel the community spirit over night.
42. Get a good desktop client with TweetDeck.
43. Track your results and statistics with TwitterBurner.
44. Make objectives about what you want to achieve by using Twitter, and stick to them.
45. You don’t have to read every tweet.
46. When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.
47. Learn quickly to use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL and all the variants. It helps tidy up your tweets.
48. If someone says you’re using Twitter wrong, forget it. It’s an opt out society. They can unfollow if they don’t like how you use it.
49. Talk to people about their interests.
50. Enjoy and have fun with your Twitter conversation, don’t make it too serious!

Do you have more Twitter tips and Twitter secrets to add? Just share with us in the comment box below. I’m glad to hear from you.
Enjoy with the Twitter tips. Wish you have a successful Twitter journey!

Source: http://www.bloghighlight.com/50-greatest-twitter-tips-twitter-secrets/

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Twittergate Is Lame

Citizens of the blogosphere: We've been had. The revelations from the dubiously named Twittergate have been about as exciting as watching wet paint dry, and has served only to hype the TechCrunch and Twitter brands. When Michael Arrington first announced there were "hundreds of confidential Twitter documents" sitting in TechCrunch's inbox, the TC co-founder wrote, "a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it’s appropriate to publish them."

Yesterday, Arrington made good on his promise to deliver the news with a post by Eric Schonfeld entitled "Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet." Here's what we learned from this revelatory piece of journalism: Twitter is wary of getting too close to Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Who isn't? The microblog is trying to build its user base (with a really, really lofty goal of one billion tweeps). That's not much of a shocker. Twitter also wants to make money, put its brand on every device possible, and the company is moving forward with various plans to do just that. I don't know what you think about this, but to me that's not news value, that's just confirming the obvious.

The impact these "revelations" have had on the reading public have done nothing more than create a pro-Twitter public relations campaign that makes NBC's Inside the Obama White House look like hard-nosed journalism. Wait, no — I take that back. We did find out that Sean P. Diddy Coombs values his "contribution" to Twitter more than the company's management does. Admittedly, that is far more shocking than Brian Williams' discovery that the Obama White House is filled with workaholics on a constant sugar high from eating too many M&Ms. But not by much.

What happened to Arrington's claim that TechCrunch would post the original pitch document for the much-hyped Twitter reality TV show because it was "awesome"? TechCrunch did reveal a document for a TV show called Final Tweet, but that was not the same document TechCrunch promised its readers.

Perhaps the folks over at TC had a change of heart. There has been a firestorm of opinion headed their way over this fiasco. On Daring Fireball, John Gruber called Arrington "a very sad excuse for a man." The reality-challenged Robert X. Cringely also dug into the man dubbed Captain Crunch. On Twitter, Arrington was hit with criticisms and accusations about his decision to post the documents. He even got into it with Twit-celeb Ashton Kutcher, but the two have since reconciled and may do a karaoke tour later this summer.

Twitter's lawyers may also have had an effect on TC's zealousness. In TechCrunch's final revelatory post, Schonfeld wrote that TechCrunch got the "green light by Twitter" to post the documents. That was news to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who quickly denied that allegation on Twitter and in a blog post yesterday.

As the Twittergate smoke clears, it's starting to look less likely the two companies will end up in court over this. Some have suggested this entire affair may have been a PR stunt concocted by TechCrunch and Twitter to raise the microblog's brand. That's unlikely given the security concerns over Google Apps, but I think it's fair to say that Twitter's not entirely upset over the favorable reaction these "revelations" have received.

Ian Paul, PC World

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Stop Ignoring your Less Active Twitter Friends

The Twitter website and most desktop clients of Twitter present status updates of people you follow in a "River of News" format. That is, the most recent updates of your Twitter friends are always displayed at the top and these get pushed down as new messages arrive.

Why do friends get ignored on Twitter?

You are comfortable reading news in the river style but it present one major problem. Say you have two friends on Twitter - Mr. Active who sends a new tweet every 5 minutes and Mr. Busy who rarely tweets. Now in the current format, you are most likely to miss all updates of Mr. Busy because his tweets will continuously get pushed down by Mr. Active.

So you have no intention to ignore Mr. Busy but he is still getting ignored because your Twitter App is using the River format that naturally favors Mr. Active.

Twitter updates without the River

There are however some good solutions to this practical problem:

Twitter 100 - This app creates some sort of a collage of all the people you follow on Twitter (see example) - you can read their most recent updates in one go and the page will auto-refresh every 3 minutes.

Twitter For Busy People - The Twitter 100 mashup discussed above work great for people who follow only a few dozen people on Twitter but if you have hundreds of contacts on Twitter, check out Twitter for Busy People (see example).

This mashup displays a series of thumbnails of your Twitter friends in order of their most recent updates. You can then hover the mouse over any of these thumbnail images to read the most recent status update from that person.

Or click the "more" link to see the last 25 updates from the friend without closing that pop-up. Pretty cool. Thanks @ev.

For more tips & tricks, check out The Twitter Guide.

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Twitter's Brief History

Dom Sagolla, formerly of Odeo Corp., corporate predecessor of Obvious Corp., the company behind Twitter, tells the story of the micro-messaging service that has caught the imagination of everyone from from tech mommies to cable news networks, sports stars and Hollywood stars. It has become a source of breaking news and rumors. It is the new pulsating heart of the real-time Internet. It was born at a time when Odeo was facing a rather bleak future:

“Rebooting” or reinventing the company started with a daylong brainstorming session where we broke up into teams to talk about our best ideas. I was lucky enough to be in @Jack’s group, where he first described a service that uses SMS to tell small groups what you are doing.

I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.”

Work on the project started on March 31, 2006. @Jack is Jack Dorsey, until recently the CEO of Twitter. He wrote the version 0.1 with Noah Glass, who showed me Twitter, back when it was known as Twttr, at a party in SOMA in San Francisco. That very night I wrote a short blog post about the service:

Twttr has married Short Code Messaging, SMS with a way to create social groups. By sending a text message to a short code (for TWTTR) you can send your location information, your mood information or whatever and share it with people who are on your social-mob! Best part – no installation necessary!

Thanks to an early jump, I got the @Om handle for my Twitter account. Reading that original post, I am amazed at how much has changed in two-and-a-half years. For Twitter, web has become the primary focus. The company has received a $500 million buyout offer, not to mention criticism for not being able to keep the service working all the time.

As Dom points out, over time, much of the original team from Odeo was let go — including Glass. Odeo became Obvious Corp., and, well, the rest is history. Now, the company is rumored to be valued at $250 million and is on its way to becoming the next hot platform on the web.

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