Stephen Pickering

Tag: Twitter

Great Resources for How to Use Twitter
Update: 6/23/11 - How To Answer The Question “How Often Should I Tweet?”http://j.mp/kyTYGR http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/how-to-answer-the-question-how-often-should-i-tweet_b10529 I saw a tweet today by Chris Brogan called "50 Power Twitter Tips." I want to remember this post and go back and read it often. As a side note about blogging: A lot of times I think of my blog as a self serving tool, a second "brain" if you will, for storing stuff that I may need months later. I had this happen twice today. I was trying to network my Linux machine to my Mac to transfer some files. I had dug up the techno info months ago and made it a blog post. I can't keep that stuff in my brain all the time, especially when its something I use a few times a year, and its not a task that's in my everyday profession. So today, using WordPress's search function, I easily found the post and got my task done quickly and painlessly, because I had done the painful leg work of finding the info months before. Now, yes, I could just as easily store that same info on my Computer, no doubt. But the additional benefit of the blog platform is that it makes the information available simultaneously to anyone in the world who may have the same problem. The blog becomes a "scaling" solution as well as a self serving one, simultaneously. The great benefit of computers and the internet is not only in processing mundane work, but offloading mundane but necessary information onto your "second" brain, so as to free your organic brain to be more spontaneous. I'll keep adding to this list as I discover more great resources. Do you have any of your own you would like to recommend? Leave a comment. I'd love to read it.
- 50 Power Twitter Tips - ChrisBrogan.com - I need to read this list every day, or at least every week. These tips are succinct (they are all short enough to be "tweeted" individually) , and they can be put into practice immediately. These tips will not only help you to get the most out of Twitter but also make it more fun and additionally increase your "influence" in the Twittersphere in a natural, authentic way. Chris Brogan is a special guy. He's a bonafied internet, blogging, twitter "celebrity" but he has no hubris. He really likes people. He really likes to help them. He's genuine, down to Earth. He's not trying to impress or be part of some "elite" class of individual, although as a by product of his activities he has become part of that group, maybe even at the top of it, through acting in a way that's the exact opposite of most of the Twitter "illuminati." A genuine "Trust Agent" as his book goes. And one of the most enjoyable speakers you'll ever watch.
Update: 09/17/10: Just saw this blog post by Brian Solice: "The Science of Retweets on Twitter" It's a very interesting post about how to construct tweets to give them the most chance of being re-tweeted. Interesting read. I just tried it myself on a tweet I just did: I wrote a blog post and tweeted: "Please Retweet: New Blog Post: The Best Way You Can Use Twitter http://bit.ly/d9bgUi Stephen Pickering" (link to tweet) I asked for the Retweet. I used the words Blog, Post, and You in there. I used a bit.ly shortened link also. But judging from the post, I should have waited until about 4pm EST to tweet it, instead of 6:30am. But according to the report Friday is the best day, so I did get that right. We'll see if I get any retweets. Update 9/18/10 Ran across this today. It's a similar topic as Brian's but more quixotically taken on by Tim Ferris: Blogging by Numbers: How to Create Headlines That Get Retweeted It's mostly about how to write headlines, headlines for blog posts, but then as those headlines also become Tweets, it fits nicely into this study.
June 16, 2010
All the Google Accounts on Twitter
Twitter’s newest ad platform:

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Courtesy of the Official Google Blog
- twitter.com/Google – our central account
- twitter.com/GooglePubPolicy – our take on politics, policy & government*
- twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans
- twitter.com/Google Books – Passages, quotes, images and product news*
- twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates
- twitter.com/GoogleContacts – user tips for Google Contacts*
- twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
- twitter.com/GoogleNews – latest headlines via Google News
- twitter.com/GoogleNewsJP – latest headlines via Google News Japan*
- twitter.com/GoogleReader – from our feed reader team
- twitter.com/GoogleVoice – updates & info on Google Voice*
- twitter.com/iGoogle – news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage
- twitter.com/GoogleStudents – news of interest to students using Google
- http://twitter.com/googlemobileapp – Updates on Google mobile apps*
- twitter.com/YouTube – for YouTube fans
- twitter.com/YouTubeES – en Espanol
- twitter.com/GoogleAtWork – solutions for IT and workplace productivity
- twitter.com/GoogleSites – Google Sites updates*
- twitter.com/GoogleToolbar – news & tips from the Toolbar team*
Geo-related
- twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
- twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp's 3D Warehouse
- twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
- twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
- twitter.com/GoogleEarth - updates from the Google Earth team*
- twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
- twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky
Ads-related
- twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
- twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
- twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
- twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
- twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
- twitter.com/GoogleAdManager - info on managing online ads & inventory*
- twitter.com/GoogleAffiliate - info for publishers from Google network advertisers*
- twitter.com/GoogleAuto - news for auto advertisers*
- twitter.com/GoogleFinSvcs - news for financial services advertisers*
- http://twitter.com/googlemande - news for media & entertainment advertisers*
- twitter.com/GoogleRetail - news for retail advertisers
- twitter.com/GoogleTech - news for tech advertisers*
- twitter.com/GoogleTravel - news for travel advertisers*
- twitter.com/GoogleTVAds - info on our digital system for more measurable TV advertising*
- twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
- twitter.com/UKretail - for U.K. retail advertisers
- twitter.com/creativesandbox - for advertising agencies*
- twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
- twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
- twitter.com/AdSenseKorea - info for Korean-language publishers*
- twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
- twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
- twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
- twitter.com/GoogleAgencias - for Latin American agencies*
Developer & technical
- twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips*
- twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists
- twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
- twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
- twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
- twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
- twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data
- http://twitter.com/googledevapac - for Google developers in Asia-Pacific*
- twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
- twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google's largest annual developer event
Culture, People
- twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
- twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters
Country or Region
- twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*
- twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
- twitter.com/googlebrasil - News & info for Brasil*
- twitter.com/googlecanada - News & notes from Google Canada*
- twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
- twitter.com/GoogleKorea - News & notes in Korean*
- twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
- twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy
- twitter.com/GoogleRussia - Information in Russian on Google products & services*
Update: Additions indicated by * Courtesy of the Official Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-accounts-on-twitter.html
January 24, 2010
What May Stop Twitter? Itself.

The trouble with Twitter is not the model, its the underlying technology. The site has constantly had problems functioning smoothly since inception, even before it became mainstream, so growth is not an excuse. They’re going to have to get new management to fix it. If it can’t be fixed there’s no way this company can go forward, and FriendFeed or Facebook will take over the space. The model is great, but the execution is horrendous. ¬†It’s going to be tomorrow’s AOL or Myspace if something isn’t done, and it has to be done now.

Jimmy Page said “Some guitars fight you, others the music just spills out.” ¬†Twitter, the site itself, just seems to fight you, like its annoyed you are even there. Whatever they’ve got to do to fix, they must do it now, even if it meant shutting the site down for a week and doing a complete overhaul. It would be worth it. It could mean billions. Jason Calacanis is right, they could be the dial tone of the internet. They are on the verge of it right now, and that’s why it must be fixed. No excuses. At least I wouldn’t want any if I were the one who’d given them $25million.

April 30, 2009